Mitigating Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in OpenFlow networks

Author

Oktian, Yustus Eko ; SangGon Lee ; HoonJae Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ubiquitous IT, Dongseo Univ., Busan, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

22-24 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

325

Lastpage

330

Abstract

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising step towards the future network. But, it still has some issue regarding the security. One of the security issues is the augmented impact of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. In this paper, we create an application on the top of Beacon controller to mitigate the DoS attacks in the OpenFlow networks. The attacks include IP/MAC Spoofing and Bulky/Garbage Message. We launch the DoS attacks towards the network and analyze the performance of the application. All of these attacks, Beacon, and OpenFlow are implemented in the network simulation environment Mininet. At the end of this paper, we also discuss about another strategy and supplementary method to mitigate the DoS attacks.

Keywords

computer network security; software defined networking; Beacon controller; DoS attack mitigation; IP/MAC spoofing attack; Mininet; OpenFlow networks; SDN; bulky/garbage message attack; denial-of-service attack; software defined networking; Computer crime; IP networks; Ports (Computers); Quality of service; Switches; Application; Attacks; DoS; OpenFlow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTC.2014.6983147

Filename

6983147