Towards a Reliable SDN Firewall

Authors: 

Hongxin Hu, Delaware State University; Gail-Joon Ahn, Wonkyu Han, and Ziming Zhao, Arizona State University

Abstract: 

One primary goal of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is to enable various network applications, which are basically network services, to run on the controller to manage the network directly by configuring packet-handling mechanisms in underlying devices. Consequently, when enterprises adopt OpenFlow for their networks, it is virtually inevitable that legacy security appliances, such as firewalls, have to be migrated to OpenFlow-based networks by re-designing and implementing them as compatible security applications. However, our study reveals that OpenFlow not only presents tremendous opportunities to networking, but also brings great challenges for building SDN firewalls as follows...

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {182272,
author = {Hongxin Hu and Gail-Joon Ahn and Wonkyu Han and Ziming Zhao},
title = {Towards a Reliable {SDN} Firewall},
booktitle = {Open Networking Summit 2014 (ONS 2014)},
year = {2014},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/ons2014/technical-sessions/presentation/hu},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}
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