A comprehensive survey of vulnerability and information security in SDN

R Deb, S Roy - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
SDN changes the networking vision with an impressive thought of segregating the
networking control from the data management hardware and brings new functionalities such …

Software-defined network (SDN) data plane security: issues, solutions, and future directions

A Shaghaghi, MA Kaafar, R Buyya, S Jha - Handbook of Computer …, 2020 - Springer
Software-defined network (SDN) radically changes the network architecture by decoupling
the network logic from the underlying forwarding devices. This architectural change …

A survey of the main security issues and solutions for the SDN architecture

MB Jimenez, D Fernandez, JE Rivadeneira… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm proposes the decoupling of control and
data planes and a centralized software-oriented management approach based on a central …

Deployment of robust security scheme in SDN based 5G network over NFV enabled cloud environment

IH Abdulqadder, D Zou, IT Aziz… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this Modern era, Software Defined Network (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV),
and cloud computing participating of Fifth Generation (5G) network emergence. This paper …

Flow table security in SDN: Adversarial reconnaissance and intelligent attacks

M Yu, T **e, T He, P McDaniel… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance-driven design of SDN architectures leaves many security vulnerabilities, a
notable one being the communication bottleneck between the controller and the switches …

RDefender: A lightweight and robust defense against flow table overflow attacks in SDN

D Kong, X Chen, C Wu, Y Shen, Z Zhou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The flow table is a critical component of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). However, flow
tables' limited capacity makes them highly vulnerable to flow table overflow attacks (FTOAs) …

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 …

FloRa: Flow table low-rate overflow reconnaissance and detection in SDN

A Mudgal, A Verma, M Singh, KS Sahoo… - … on Network and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SDN has evolved to revolutionize next-generation networks, offering programmability for on-
the-fly service provisioning, primarily supported by the OpenFlow (OF) protocol. The limited …

Combination attacks and defenses on sdn topology discovery

D Kong, Y Shen, X Chen, Q Cheng… - IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The topology discovery service in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides the
controller with a global view of the substrate network topology, allowing for central …

FTODefender: An efficient flow table overflow attacks defending system in SDN

D Tang, Z Zheng, C Yin, B **ong, Z Qin… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising architecture that disentangles
the control plane from the data plane. A mainstream southbound protocol for controller-to …