arxivcs.NI2026-07-13
OSNR/GSNR Prediction in Brownfield Links via a DLM-Anchored Hybrid Physics/ML Model
Agastya Raj, Venkata Virajit Garbhapu, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Peyman Pahlevanzadeh, Hideki Nishizawa, Takeo Sasai, et al.
We present a DLM-anchored hybrid physics/ML framework for brownfield optical links that accurately predicts per-channel power, OSNR, and GSNR. Calibrating span/ILA boundaries via DLM yields OSNR/GSNR errors of no more than 0.39/0.43 dB across single-channel and OSaaS provisioning…