Abstract
Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a time varying phenomenon, which
in a network can result in system outages. In this paper, it is demonstrated
that the method of extreme value statistics can be used to model the occurrence
of these rare events. The extreme value behavior of the bit error rate (BER)
due to PMD is analyzed both theoretically and experimentally, revealing that
the logarithm of the BER follows a Gumbel distribution.
© 2006 IEEE
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