Software-Define Networking (SDN): SDN and Its Security Issues
Sardar Ali alias shah
Department of Computer Engineering
Melbourne Institute of Technology
Abstract - Nowadays, SDN is most emerging technology. It is one of the most promising area in which you easily depend on networking. It is going to virtualization to reality.SDN is basically separate the control plane and data plane physically. It is dynamically programmable that’s why they have more security issues if they have static programmable it is not much as insecure. Due to dynamic factor they are facing many security threats related to SDN.We are discussing on SDN security threats and we present its new framework architecture model.
Index Terms – SDN (software Define Networking).
I. INTRODUCTION Since 1970 there are no big changes in networking. Only the end point such as computers is where all the magic happens. Even networking equipment such as routers and switches serves as data collection purpose equipment. In order to develop data planes and have more network control, management becomes more complex. This type of new technology increases operating cost of networking.
Body: SDN is the new emerging technology used in data centers, mobiles and enterprise networks typically used for network virtualization. SDN allows for customized control planes and centralized data plan abstraction, making control and data planes parted.
This is to give network operator more control and visualize their
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amid this configuration we tend to look for guidance from them as data, control, and application planes. At base, the data plane is included system segments, whose SDN Data ways uncover their abilities through the Control-Data-Plane Interface (CDPI) Agent. On top, SDN Applications exist inside of the application plane, and impart their needs by means of northward Interface (NBI) Drivers. inside of the centre, the SDN Controller interprets these needs and applies low-level administration over the SDN Data ways, while giving pertinent data up to the SDN
* Opengear supports the OpenFlow/SDN Interoperability Lab. This Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology from the Open
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