Paper Info
Title
Patterns for the design of secure and dependable software defined networks.
Abstract
In an interconnected world, cyber and physical networks face a number of challenges that need to be resolved. These challenges are mainly due to the nature and complexity of interconnected systems and networks and their ability to support heterogeneous physical and cyber components simultaneously. The construction of complex networks preserving Security and Dependability (S&D) properties is necessary to avoid system vulnerabilities, which may occur in all the different layers of Software Defined Networking (SDN) architectures. In this paper, we present a model based approach to support the design of secure and dependable SDN. This approach is based on executable patterns for designing networks able to guarantee S&D properties and can be used in SDN networks. The design patterns express conditions that can guarantee specific S&D properties and can be used to design networks that have these properties and manage them during their deployment. To evaluate our pattern approach, we have implemented executable pattern instances, in a rule-based reasoning system, and used them to design and verify wireless SDN networks with respect to availability and confidentiality. To complete this work, we propose and evaluate an implementation framework in which S&D patterns can be applied for the design and verification of SDN networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.comnet.2016.06.028
Computer Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Design patterns,Software Defined Networks (SDN),Wireless networks,Security,Dependability,Drools
Wireless network,Dependability,Software deployment,Computer science,Software design pattern,Computer network,Complex network,Software-defined networking,Reasoning system,Distributed computing,Executable
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
109
1389-1286
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolaos E. Petroulakis16911.13
George Spanoudakis21057108.40
Ioannis G. Askoxylakis330323.10