Policy-driven Conformal Prediction for Trustworthy QoT Estimation
Paper in proceeding, 2025

We propose Conformal QoT, a policy-driven framework that combines statistically guaranteed QoT estimation with operational decision policies, enabling reliable lightpath-feasibility predictions under domain shift and improving accuracy from 92% to 99.6% on open datasets.

Optical networks

Quality of transmission

Artificial intelligence

Machine learning

Author

Kiarash Rezaei

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Omran Ayoub

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian Switzerland (SUPSI)

Paolo Monti

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Carlos Natalino Da Silva

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026

M4A.X

Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026
Los Angeles, CA, USA,

Efficient Confluent Edge Networks (ECO-eNET)

European Commission (EC) (EC/HE/101139133), 2024-01-01 -- 2028-12-31.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Computer Sciences

Telecommunications

Information Systems

Infrastructure

Chalmers e-Commons (incl. C3SE, 2020-)

Related datasets

Datasets for QoT estimation in SDM networks [dataset]

DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.558452

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Created

12/28/2025