標題: HiAuth: Hidden Authentication for Protecting Software Defined Networks
作者: Abdullaziz, Osamah Ibrahiem
Wang, Li-Chun
Chen, Yu-Jia
電機工程學系
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
關鍵字: Software defined networking (SDN);OpenFlow;denial of service (DoS) attacks;information hiding
公開日期: 1-六月-2019
摘要: Software defined networking (SDN) enables network function programmability for ease of configuration and maintenance, and also allows network administrators to change traffic rules on the fly. However, denial of service (DoS) attacks pose security challenges on the centralized control plane of SDN. Although the transport layer security (TLS) can help secure the control plane, it is computationally intensive, complex to configure, and not mandatory in OpenFlow protocol. In this paper, we present a lightweight authentication solution, called hidden authentication (HiAuth), to protect the SDN controller by hiding the identities of the forwarding devices into the control packets via efficient bitwise operations. HiAuth is the first to incorporate information hiding techniques into OpenFlow to provide security against DoS attacks. HiAuth exploits the IP identification field of IPv4 and the transaction identification field of OpenFlow in two authentication schemes. The experimental results show that HiAuth can effectively mitigate intruder DoS attacks and provide high undetectability to attackers.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2019.2909116
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/152305
ISSN: 1932-4537
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2909116
期刊: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Volume: 16
Issue: 2
起始頁: 618
結束頁: 631
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