AI Assisted Next Gen Outdoor Optical Networks: Camera Sensing for Monitoring and User Localization

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Auteurs principaux: Ghanbari, Meysam, Dabiri, Mohammad Taghi, Ammuri, Rula, Hasna, Mazen, Qaraqe, Khalid
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author Ghanbari, Meysam
Dabiri, Mohammad Taghi
Ammuri, Rula
Hasna, Mazen
Qaraqe, Khalid
author_facet Ghanbari, Meysam
Dabiri, Mohammad Taghi
Ammuri, Rula
Hasna, Mazen
Qaraqe, Khalid
contents We consider outdoor optical access points (OAPs), which, enabled by recent advances in metasurface technology, have attracted growing interest. While OAPs promise high data rates and strong physical-layer security, practical deployments still expose vulnerabilities and misuse patterns that necessitate a dedicated monitoring layer - the focus of this work. We therefore propose a user positioning and monitoring system that infers locations from spatial intensity measurements on a photodetector (PD) array. Specifically, our hybrid approach couples an optics-informed forward model and sparse, model-based inversion with a lightweight data-driven calibration stage, yielding high accuracy at low computational cost. This design preserves the interpretability and stability of model-based reconstruction while leveraging learning to absorb residual nonidealities and device-specific distortions. Under identical hardware and training conditions (both with 5 x 10^5 samples), the hybrid method attains consistently lower mean-squared error than a generic deep-learning baseline while using substantially less training time and compute. Accuracy improves with array resolution and saturates around 60 x 60-80 x 80, indicating a favorable accuracy-complexity trade-off for real-time deployment. The resulting position estimates can be cross-checked with real-time network logs to enable continuous monitoring, anomaly detection (e.g., potential eavesdropping), and access control in outdoor optical access networks.
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spellingShingle AI Assisted Next Gen Outdoor Optical Networks: Camera Sensing for Monitoring and User Localization
Ghanbari, Meysam
Dabiri, Mohammad Taghi
Ammuri, Rula
Hasna, Mazen
Qaraqe, Khalid
Signal Processing
We consider outdoor optical access points (OAPs), which, enabled by recent advances in metasurface technology, have attracted growing interest. While OAPs promise high data rates and strong physical-layer security, practical deployments still expose vulnerabilities and misuse patterns that necessitate a dedicated monitoring layer - the focus of this work. We therefore propose a user positioning and monitoring system that infers locations from spatial intensity measurements on a photodetector (PD) array. Specifically, our hybrid approach couples an optics-informed forward model and sparse, model-based inversion with a lightweight data-driven calibration stage, yielding high accuracy at low computational cost. This design preserves the interpretability and stability of model-based reconstruction while leveraging learning to absorb residual nonidealities and device-specific distortions. Under identical hardware and training conditions (both with 5 x 10^5 samples), the hybrid method attains consistently lower mean-squared error than a generic deep-learning baseline while using substantially less training time and compute. Accuracy improves with array resolution and saturates around 60 x 60-80 x 80, indicating a favorable accuracy-complexity trade-off for real-time deployment. The resulting position estimates can be cross-checked with real-time network logs to enable continuous monitoring, anomaly detection (e.g., potential eavesdropping), and access control in outdoor optical access networks.
title AI Assisted Next Gen Outdoor Optical Networks: Camera Sensing for Monitoring and User Localization
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18087