Secure Communication between Network Applications and Controller in Software Defined Network
Lawal Aliyu, Aliyu and Aneiba, Adel and Patwary, Mohammad (2019) Secure Communication between Network Applications and Controller in Software Defined Network. In: 18th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2019), 26-28 September 2019, Cambridge, MA USA.
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Abstract
Network applications in SDN environment operate without any threat prevention mechanism or access control to checkmate what functions or operations they can execute within the network. This gives room for malicious applications to implement an offensive attack against the network or install exploits that can compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of network resources. In order to address this problem, this paper proposes a threat mitigation model based on trust that introduces a token-based authentication method that enables the controller to verify and validate every network application that makes changes in the network. The paper contributes in providing an authorisation method Boolean Access Matrix that constrains what operation, functions or privileges every network application can execute within the network. To assess the trustworthiness of network applications, a trust evaluation method based on Subjective Logic Reasoning which is a belief learning model is proposed. Results from tests and experiments show how scalable and efficient the proposed trust framework is.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Dates: | Date Event 20 August 2019 Accepted 19 December 2019 Published Online |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SDN, authentication, authorisation, trust, security |
| Subjects: | CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > College of Computing |
| Depositing User: | Adel Aneiba |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2019 12:59 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2023 12:01 |
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7901 |
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