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This paper presents a study of the errors observed when an optical Gigabit Ethernet link is subject to attenuation. We use a set of purpose-built tools which allows us to examine the errors observed on a per-octet basis. We find that some octets suffer from far higher probability of error than others, and that the distribution of errors varies depending on the type of packet transmitted.
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James, L., Moore, A., Glick, M. (2004). Structured Errors in Optical Gigabit Ethernet Packets. In: Barakat, C., Pratt, I. (eds) Passive and Active Network Measurement. PAM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24668-8_20
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