Research Output
BCFR: Blockchain-based Controller Against False Flow Rule Injection in SDN
  Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology increases the evolution of Internet and network development. SDN, with its logical centralization of controllers and global network overview changes the network's characteristics, on term of flexibility, availability and programmability. However, this development increased the network communication security challenges. To enhance the SDN security, we propose the BCFR solution to avoid false flow rules injection in SDN data layer devices. In this solution, we use the blockchain technology to provide the controller authentication and the integrity of the traffic flow circulated between the controller and the other network elements. This work is implemented using OpenStack platform and Onos controller. The evaluation results show the effectiveness of our proposal.

  • Date:

    27 January 2020

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    IEEE

  • DOI:

    10.1109/ISCC47284.2019.8969780

  • Library of Congress:

    QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    000 Computer science, information & general works

  • Funders:

    Edinburgh Napier Funded

Citation

Boukria, S., Guerroumi, M., & Romdhani, I. (2020). BCFR: Blockchain-based Controller Against False Flow Rule Injection in SDN. In 2019 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (1034-1039). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC47284.2019.8969780

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Keywords

Software Defined Networking; SDN controller security; Blockchain; OpenStack; Onos; injection; false flow rules

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