Transformer-Based Prognostics: Enhancing Network Availability by Improved Monitoring of Optical Fiber Amplifiers
arXiv:2603.28081
Abstract
We enhance optical network availability and reliability through a lightweight transformer model that predicts optical fiber amplifier lifetime from condition-based monitoring data, enabling real-time, edge-level predictive maintenance and advancing deployable AI for autonomous network operation.
This paper has been accepted for publication at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference 2026