Paper Info
Title
BSec-NFVO: A Blockchain-based Security for Network Function Virtualization Orchestration
Abstract
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Function Chaining (SFC) offer flexible end-to-end services that deploy virtual network functions in clouds of competing providers. Orchestration of virtual network functions occurs in a distributed and trustless environment that must tolerate byzantine failures and collusion attacks. This paper proposes BSec-NFVO, a blockchain-based system that secures orchestration operations in virtualized networks, ensuring auditability, non-repudiation and integrity. We propose an NFV-tailored blockchain and a transaction model. BSec-NFVO provides a modular architecture to secure orchestration in a simple and agile way. We develop a prototype of BSec-NFVO for the Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization (OPNFV) with an adaptation of the normal-case of a collusion-resistant consensus protocol. The results show BSec-NFVO incurs low overhead to the cloud orchestrator and presents stable performance as the number of consensus participants increases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICC.2019.8761651
IEEE International Conference on Communications
Field
DocType
ISSN
Virtual network,Chaining,Open platform,Computer science,Byzantine fault tolerance,Computer network,Agile software development,Orchestration,Orchestration (computing),Cloud computing
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriel Antonio F. Rebello152.76
Igor D. Alvarenga2183.06
Igor Jochem Sanz310.68
Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte468655.46