Title :
A layer2 firewall for software defined network
Author :
Javid, Tariq ; Riaz, T. ; Rasheed, Asim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Heavy Ind. Taxila Educ. City (HITEC) Univ., Taxila, Pakistan
Abstract :
The software defined networking is an emerging three layer architecture which defines data, control, and application planes. Data and control planes implement forwarding and routing functions, respectively. Application plane contains communicating processes. This paper presents a layer2 fire-wall implementation using an example tree topology with one controller, three switches, and four hosts. Our implementation uses POX controller at control plane of the architecture. The modified code successfully controlled flow of packets between hosts according to firewall rules.
Keywords :
firewalls; POX controller; example tree topology; forwarding function; layer2 firewall implementation; routing function; software defined networking; three layer architecture; Computer architecture; Control systems; Firewalls (computing); Flowcharts; Network topology; Ports (Computers); Topology; Firewall; Mininet; OpenFlow; POX; SDN;
Conference_Titel :
Information Assurance and Cyber Security (CIACS), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rawalpindi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5851-1
DOI :
10.1109/CIACS.2014.6861329
