Effect of Hotspot Traffic on Blocking Probability in Elastic Optical Networks

In a circuit-switched network, traffic can be characterized by several factors that define how communication resources are allocated and utilized during a connection. The amount of traffic basically determines how frequently connection requests arrive, how long the setup connection remains active, and the bandwidth used. The Poisson Arrival Process models traffic arrival events at random intervals. It assumes that events happen independently of one another. This model is ideal for simulating traffic in networks where arrivals happen independently and randomly, such as the start of phone calls, data requests, or packet transmissions. The Poisson Arrival Process and uniformly choosing source and destination pair is been used most commonly by researchers to generate traffic in a network to test various promising routing and spectrum assignment algorithms. It checks the algorithm in uniformly loaded conditions and estimate its baseline performance. In real real-world scenario, a bunch of network nodes can start experiencing heavy data traffic compared to the rest of the network. This can lead to latency issues, or even outages if the network is not optimized to handle the load at these nodes which are also called hotspots. In other terms, hotspot in a network is an area or set of nodes within the network that have a higher likelihood of being involved in communication or data transmission compared to other areas. In this paper, we have tried to find what are the various factors involved in increasing the blocking probability in hotspot traffic scenarios. We have also compared the results with the uniform traffic load conditions in same topology.