Combat-Sniff: A Comprehensive Countermeasure to Resist Data Plane Eavesdropping in Software-Defined Networks

Fan Jiang; Chen Song; Hao Xun; Zhen Xu

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Combat-Sniff: A Comprehensive Countermeasure to Resist Data Plane Eavesdropping in Software-Defined Networks

Fan Jiang, Chen Song, Hao Xun, Zhen Xu

Published in American Journal of Networks and Communications (Volume 5, Issue 2)

Received: 20 April 2016 Accepted: Published: 21 April 2016

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Abstract

Software-defined networking (SDN), on account of its unprecedented capability of network traffic monitoring and data resource transferring, has been deployed into a wide range of application scenarios. However, typical cyber-attacks which prevail in traditional IP networks, have also mutated their implementation models adjusting to SDN environment. Eavesdropping is one of such attacks and causes severe information disclosure to different degree. In this paper, we focus on data plane eavesdropping in SDN and treat it on two levels according to the extent an adversarial sniffer can exploit a SDN switch. Then we introduce Combat-Sniff, a comprehensive countermeasure which includes two methods to deal with the two-level sniffing respectively. And later, we both theoretically and experimentally demonstrate their reliability and performance. Results represent that we can exert Combat-Sniff in SDN to satisfy different security requirements with an acceptable overhead.

Published in	American Journal of Networks and Communications (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajnc.20160502.13
Page(s)	27-34
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Eavesdropping, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Flow Entries Integrity Verification, Moving Target Defense (MTD)

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Fan Jiang, Chen Song, Hao Xun, Zhen Xu. Combat-Sniff: A Comprehensive Countermeasure to Resist Data Plane Eavesdropping in Software-Defined Networks. Am J Netw Commun. 2016;5(2):27-34. doi: 10.11648/j.ajnc.20160502.13

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Fan Jiang

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China
Chen Song

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China
Hao Xun

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China
Zhen Xu

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China

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