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Soft Fault Estimation and Localisation in Y-Shaped Networks using OFDM-Based Signals

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Ameer Ahmadie, Ndeye Gueye, Virginie Degardin, Vincent Cocquempot

Abstract

This paper introduces a method for detecting, estimating, and localising a soft fault in wired communication networks. The proposed method is based on analysing the transmission coefficients (TC) in the time domain under both fault-free and faulty situations. An orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based scheme is used to estimate the TC. A fault-severity ratio is derived to estimate the fault intensity, while a residual-based function is proposed to determine its location. Experimental validation is carried out on a Y-shaped test setup to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.

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arXiv ID: 2603.08183
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: eess.SP
Published: 2026-03-09
Fetched: 2026-03-10 05:43

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