Research Area:  Software Defined Networks

Abstract:

In today-s advancing world, there is an increase in the size and requirements of networks which can be a burden since moving around with switches is quite chaotic. SDN helps switches to be programmed and implemented independently. SDN is a way of providing programmability for network application development by separating the control plane from the data plane. Security of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an open subject. Separating the control plane from the data plane opens up a number of security challenges such as a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM), a service denial (DoS), overload saturation attacks, etc. In this paper, we have focused on the overview of software defined network (SDN), it’s challenges, it’s issues, and their solutions. First, we have discussed about the architecture of SDN, followed by elaborating the threats and at the last, proposing some solutions to improvise the security.

Keywords:  
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
DDoS
packet sniffing
ARP spoofing
brute force
API exploitation

Author(s) Name:  Aayush Pradhan, Rejo Mathew

Publisher name:  Elsevier

DOI:  10.1016/j.procs.2020.04.280

Volume Information:  Volume 171, 2020, Pages 2581-2589

Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050920312734