Toward a Trust-Based Authentication Framework of Northbound Interface in Software Defined Networking

摘要: Software Defined Networking (SDN) – a new rising terminology of network is recently gained more and interest in both academic industrial field. Not only decoupling its control plane data plane, SDN also provides the whole view entire for better flexible management. Despite benefits global network, with single point failure at controller encounters some drawbacks additional challenge security. A malicious OpenFlow application (OF app) can access to perform illegal activities due lack authentication protocol Northbound interface ensure that trusted, authorized applications critical resources. The information about such as topology data, flow or statistics be retrieved. Even worse controlled from compromised controller. In this paper, we introduce Trust Trident - framework securing trustworthy between controller, controller-independent capability. It gives administrator fully fine-grained observation OF apps communicating Threats counter measurements by our plugin are classified evaluated according threat categories STRIDE methodology.