Resilient backup controller placement in distributed SDN under critical targeted attacks

E Calle, D Martínez, M Mycek, M Pióro - International Journal of Critical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Today, telecommunication networks are crucial infrastructures, as has, for example, been
demonstrated by the COVID-19 crisis. Thus, protecting such infrastructures, including …

Solving the backup controller placement problem in SDN under simultaneous targeted attacks

E Calle, SG Cosgaya, D Martínez… - 2019 11th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Targeted attacks on software defined networks (SDN) can heavily disrupt the network
connectivity and thus service continuity. One of the worst disruptions occurs when a targeted …

On joint primary and backup controllers' placement optimization against node-targeted attacks

M Pioro, M Mycek, A Tomaszewski… - … Workshop on Resilient …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realizing node-to-node connections is a basic functionality of communication networks. In
some networks, like SDN, to perform this function nodes must have access to controllers–the …

Assessment of connectivity-based resilience to attacks against multiple nodes in SDNs

D Santos, A De Sousa, C Mas-Machuca, J Rak - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Software Defined Networks (SDNs), the control plane of a network is decoupled from its
data plane. For scalability and robustness, the logically centralized control plane is …

Automated controller placement for software-defined networks to resist DDoS attacks

MR Haque, SC Tan, Z Yusoff, K Nisar… - … , Materials & Continua, 2021 - dr.ntu.edu.sg
In software-defined networks (SDNs), controller placement is a critical factor in the design
and planning for the future Internet of Things (IoT), telecommunication, and satellite …

Improving the robustness to targeted attacks in software defined networks (SDN)

DF Rueda, E Calle, JL Marzo - DRCN 2017-Design of Reliable …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defined network (SDN) separates the network's control logic from the data
forwarding devices (routers and switches), providing to network a centralization of control …

A novel DDoS attack-aware smart backup controller placement in SDN design

MR Haque, SC Tan, Z Yusoff, K Nisar… - Annals of Emerging …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Security issues like Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming the
main threat for Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Controller placement is a fundamental …

Combined control and data plane robustness of SDN networks against malicious node attacks

D Santos, A De Sousa… - 2018 14th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of software-defined networking (SDN), we address a variant of the controller
placement problem (CPP), which takes into account the network robustness at both control …

The controller placement problem for robust SDNs against malicious node attacks considering the control plane with and without split-brain

D Santos, A De Sousa, C Mas Machuca - Annals of Telecommunications, 2019 - Springer
In software-defined networking (SDN), the control plane is separated from the data plane.
For scalability and robustness reasons, the logically centralized control plane is …

Robust SDN controller placement to malicious node attacks

D Santos, A De Sousa… - 2018 21st Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In software-defined networking (SDN), the control plane is separated from the switching
plane (ie, data plane). The logically centralized control plane is implemented by physically …