Research Area:  Software Defined Networks

Abstract:

   The rapid development and convergence of computing technologies and communications create the need to connect diverse devices with different operating systems and protocols.This resulted in numerous challenges to provide seamless integration of a large amount of heterogeneous physical devices or entities. Hence, Software-defined Networks (SDN), as an emerging paradigm, has the potential to revolutionize the legacy network management and accelerate the network innovation by centralizing the control and visibility over the network.However, security issues remain a significant concern and impede SDN from being widely adopted.
   n this thesis, we focus on the app-to-control threats, which could be partially mitigated by the application-based access control. As the malicious network application can be injected to the SDN controller through external APIs, i.e., RESTful APIs, or internal APIs, including OSGi bundles, Java APIs, Python APIs etc. In this thesis, we discus show to protect the SDN controller against the malicious operations caused by the network application injection both through the external APIs and the internal APIs.

Name of the Researcher:  Yuchia Tseng

Name of the Supervisor(s):  Farid Nait-Abdesselam

Year of Completion:  2018

University:  Paris Descartes University

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