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- Title
Securing SDN Southbound and Data Plane Communication with IBC.
- Authors
JunHuy Lam; Sang-Gon Lee; Hoon-Jae Lee; Yustus Eko Oktian
- Abstract
In software-defined network (SDN), the southbound protocol defines the communication between the control plane and the data plane. The agreed protocol, OpenFlow, suggests securing the southbound communication with Transport Layer Security (TLS). However, most current SDNprojects do not implement the security segment, with only a fewexceptions such asOpenDayLight, HP VANSDN, andONOS implementing TLS in the southbound communication. Fromthe telecommunication providers' perspective, one of the major SDNconsumers besides data centers, the data plane becomesmuch more complicated with the addition of wireless data plane as it involves numerous wireless technologies. Therefore, the complicated resource management along with the security of such a data plane can hinder the migration to SDN. In this paper, we propose securing the distributed SDN communication with a multidomain capable Identity-Based Cryptography (IBC) protocol, particularly for the southbound and wireless data plane communication. We also analyze the TLS-securedMessage Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) message exchanges to find out the possible bandwidth saved with IBC.
- Subjects
DATA transmission systems; SOFTWARE-defined networking; DATA security; SERVER farms (Computer network management); TELECOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS communications
- Publication
Mobile Information Systems, 2016, p1
- ISSN
1574-017X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2016/1708970