New-flow based DDoS attacks in SDN: Taxonomy, rationales, and research challenges

MP Singh, A Bhandari - Computer Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Software-defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging technology that revolves around the
fundamental notion of setting up a network with a decoupled control plane and data plane. It …

When sdn meets low-rate threats: A survey of attacks and countermeasures in programmable networks

D Tang, R Dai, Y Yan, K Li, W Liang, Z Qin - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Low-rate threats are a class of attack vectors that are disruptive and stealthy, typically crafted
for security vulnerabilities. They have been the significant concern for cyber security …

Software-defined mobile networks security

M Chen, Y Qian, S Mao, W Tang, X Yang - Mobile Networks and …, 2016 - Springer
The future 5G wireless is triggered by the higher demand on wireless capacity. With
Software Defined Network (SDN), the data layer can be separated from the control layer …

The {CrossPath} attack: Disrupting the {SDN} control channel via shared links

J Cao, Q Li, R **e, K Sun, G Gu, M Xu… - 28th USENIX Security …, 2019 - usenix.org
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables network innovations with a centralized
controller controlling the whole network through the control channel. Because the control …

Slow denial-of-service attacks on software defined networks

TA Pascoal, IE Fonseca, V Nigam - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a network paradigm that decouples the
network's control plane, delegated to the SDN controller, from the data plane, delegated to …

Security threats in the data plane of software-defined networks

S Gao, Z Li, B **ao, G Wei - IEEE network, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SDN has enabled extensive network programmability and speedy network innovations by
decoupling the control plane from the data plane. However, the separation of the two planes …

Disrupting SDN via the data plane: A low-rate flow table overflow attack

J Cao, M Xu, Q Li, K Sun, Y Yang, J Zheng - Security and Privacy in …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is being adopted by data
centers and cloud service providers to enable flexible control. Meanwhile, the current SDN …

The loft attack: Overflowing SDN flow tables at a low rate

J Cao, M Xu, Q Li, K Sun, Y Yang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is being adopted by data centers and
cloud service providers to enable flexible control. Meanwhile, the current SDN design brings …

Dataplane specialization for high-performance OpenFlow software switching

L Molnár, G Pongrácz, G Enyedi, ZL Kis… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
OpenFlow is an amazingly expressive dataplane programming language, but this
expressiveness comes at a severe performance price as switches must do excessive packet …

A survey of link flooding attacks in software defined network ecosystems

R ur Rasool, H Wang, U Ashraf, K Ahmed… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Link Flooding Attacks (LFA) are a devastating type of stealthy denial of service
attack that congests critical network links and can completely isolate the victim's network. In …