Hierarchical solution for access control and authentication in software defined networks

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Abstract

Software defined network(SDN) one of most popular and influential technique is an emerging network architecture. It has attracted great attention to reform its performance and extend its applications in recent years. Although this new architecture provides all parties with a common programming environment to drive differentiation, almost all studies focus on efficiency and utility. Few efforts have been made to enforce authentications or access control in SDN. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical attribute-based access control scheme by incorporating the hierarchical identity based encryption and cipherpolicy attribute based encryption(CP-ABE) system. Combing the hierarchical structure and the characteristic inherited from CP-ABE, the prosed scheme gains not only scalability, but also flexibility and fine-gained access control. Based on this we then present an authentication protocol for this special architecture to enhance the ability of controllers in SDN for managing the users, devices and data flows flexibly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetwork and System Security - 8th International Conference, NSS 2014, Proceedings
EditorsMan Ho Au, Barbara Carminati, C.-C. Jay Kuo
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages70-81
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9783319116976
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event8th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2014 - Xi’an, China
Duration: 15 Oct 201417 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8792
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi’an
Period15/10/1417/10/14

Keywords

  • Access control
  • Authentication
  • SDN

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