Virtual Firewall Performance as a Waypoint on a Software Defined Overlay Network

Author

Decusatis, Casimer ; Mueller, Peter

Author_Institution

Marist Coll., Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

fYear

2014

Firstpage

819

Lastpage

822

Abstract

Cloud computing environments face many unique security challenges. Location-based firewalls with static policies require long provisioning times relative to other cloud data center components, and are not well suited to dynamic, virtualized workloads. In this paper, we discuss the use of virtual firewalls facilitated by software defined network overlays with forwarding graphs. Experimental results and performance measurements will be presented using a variety of workloads running over a virtual firewall deployment with an industry standard virtual overlay network.

Keywords

firewalls; graph theory; overlay networks; software defined networking; cloud computing environments; cloud data center components; dynamic virtualized workloads; forwarding graphs; performance measurements; security challenges; software defined overlay network; virtual firewall performance; virtual overlay network; Firewalls (computing); Home appliances; Overlay networks; Servers; Standards; Switches; DOVE; Firewall; NFV; SDN; Virtual;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Communications, 2014 IEEE 6th Intl Symp on Cyberspace Safety and Security, 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Embedded Software and Syst (HPCC,CSS,ICESS), 2014 IEEE Intl Conf on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6122-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCC.2014.136

Filename

7056838