SDN Access Control for the Masses
Paladi, Nicolae LU
and Gehrmann, Christian
LU
(2019)
In Computers and Security
80.
p.155-172
- Abstract
The evolution of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has so far been predominantly geared towards defining and refining the abstractions on the forwarding and control planes. However, despite a maturing south-bound interface and a range of proposed network operating systems, the network management application layer is yet to be specified and standardized. It has currently poorly defined access control mechanisms that could be exposed to network applications. Available mechanisms allow only rudimentary control and lack procedures to partition resource access across multiple dimensions. We address this by extending the SDN north-bound interface to provide control over shared resources to key stakeholders of network infrastructure: network... (More)
The evolution of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has so far been predominantly geared towards defining and refining the abstractions on the forwarding and control planes. However, despite a maturing south-bound interface and a range of proposed network operating systems, the network management application layer is yet to be specified and standardized. It has currently poorly defined access control mechanisms that could be exposed to network applications. Available mechanisms allow only rudimentary control and lack procedures to partition resource access across multiple dimensions. We address this by extending the SDN north-bound interface to provide control over shared resources to key stakeholders of network infrastructure: network providers, operators and application developers. We introduce a taxonomy of SDN access models, describe a comprehensive design for SDN access control and implement the proposed solution as an extension of the ONOS network controller intent framework.
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- author
- Paladi, Nicolae
LU
and Gehrmann, Christian
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Access control, Network abstractions, North-bound interface, Security, Software-defined networking
- in
- Computers and Security
- volume
- 80
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85054899526
- ISSN
- 0167-4048
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cose.2018.10.003
- project
- Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing
- Cyber Security for Next Generation Factory (SEC4FACTORY)
- Säkra mjukvaruuppdateringar för den smarta staden
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 76ccbd3d-b3e3-4774-81ee-f2ce02bc1cd8
- date added to LUP
- 2018-10-26 13:22:54
- date last changed
- 2023-04-08 19:27:23
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