Paper Info
Title
The application of Software Defined Networking on securing computer networks: A survey
Abstract
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a new networking paradigm for managing different kinds of networks ranging from enterprise to home network through software enabled control. The logically centralized control plane and programmability offers a great opportunity to improve network security, like implementing new mechanisms to detect and mitigate various threats, as well as enables deploying security as a service on the SDN controller. Due to the increasing and fast development of SDN, this paper provides an extensive survey on the application of SDN on enhancing the security of computer networks. In particular, we survey recent research studies that focus on applying SDN for network security including attack detection and mitigation, traffic monitoring and engineering, configuration and policy management, service chaining, and middlebox deployment, in addition to smart grid security. We further identify some challenges and promising future directions on SDN security, compatibility and scalability issues that should be addressed in this field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.jnca.2019.01.019
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software Defined Networking,Attack detection and mitigation,Network security,Middlebox management,Traffic management,Policy management,Traffic engineering,Smart grid security
Software deployment,Middlebox,Computer science,Network security,Computer network,Security as a service,Software,Software-defined networking,Traffic engineering,Scalability
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
131
1084-8045
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
105
3
Search Limit
100105
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rishikesh Sahay1183.04
Weizhi Meng234056.49
Christian Damsgaard Jensen326837.27