The fibre-optical communication is the fastest communication technology of all the types of the wired communication technologies where it is based on bundles of the electromagnetic signals. However, the capacity of the fibre-optical communications is the least through the wired communication technologies as it is based on a wireless medium which provides lower capacity than the wired media. A balance between the high speed and the low capacity of the fibre-optical communication has to be achieved in this project to fasten the fibre-optical communication technology to surpass other wired communication technologies.
The aim of this project is to increase the capacity of the fibre-optical communications. One of the ways to increase their capacity is to expand the wireless band of the fibre-optical signals. The advantages of the fibre-optical communication is that no risk of intereference exists. In addition, the fibre-optical communication is the most secured through all other types of the wired communications because there is no vulnerability for an intruder to snoop the communication. Therefore, no processes of encryption and decryption are required so that a processing time will be saved in benefit of increasing data transmission.
In this project, an approach for fastenning the fibre-optical communications will be investigated by performing a compression on the transmitted data in a similar way to the folder compression. One of the methods to perform the compression is to accumulate the packets of the same source and destination within a specified time period and encapsulate them within the same frame so that the transmitted frames will be very long. Therefore, this process will be done only in the stage of the fibre-optical communication where no risk of data loss will exist. Other methods of compression have to be found in this project based on investigated creteria. Investigating creteria for compressing transmitted data will be also another subject of this project such as to compress the frames based on their content, sizes, etc. For each creterion, a bulk of frames has to be similarily siezed and accumulated within a specified period of time then compressed based on this creterion and transmitted.
This project will be based on simulation and mathematical processes. Several simulators will be used such as an electromagnetic simulator, a point-to-point networking simulator and an IC simulator. Other topics will be investigated in this project such as whether partitioning transmitted data into several signals and multiplexing them is faster than its transmission over one signal and to which range the frequency band should be expanded to provide the highest data capacity. A balance between the number of signals carrying data which will be multiplexed, the range of frequency band to be expanded and the creterion of the data compression has to be achieved in this project.
Finally, simulation processes have to be done on the ICs of the transmitters and receivers of the laster signals to discover if it is possible to carry out any improvements on their electronic design to speed up the data transmission.
