Novel architectures and security solutions of programmable software-defined networking: a comprehensive survey

Shen WANG; Jun WU; Wu YANG; Long-hua GUO

doi:10.1631/FITEE.1800575

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Novel architectures and security solutions of programmable software-defined networking: a comprehensive survey

Special Issue on Cyberspace Security | Updated：2022-05-19

- Novel architectures and security solutions of programmable software-defined networking: a comprehensive survey
- 可编程软件定义网络的新架构与安全技术：综述
- Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering Vol. 19, Issue 12, Pages: 1500-1521(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  Research Center for Modern Governance, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
  School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  Information Security Research Center, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
  Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China
- Author bio：
  
  [ "Jun WU, E-mail: junwuhn@sjtu.edu.cn" ]
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1631/FITEE.1800575
  CLC： TP393
- Received：17 September 2018，
  
  Revised：2018-12-17，
  
  Published：2018-12
- Accepted：
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Shen WANG, Jun WU, Wu YANG, et al. Novel architectures and security solutions of programmable software-defined networking: a comprehensive survey[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2018, 19(12): 1500-1521.
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Shen WANG, Jun WU, Wu YANG, et al. Novel architectures and security solutions of programmable software-defined networking: a comprehensive survey[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2018, 19(12): 1500-1521. DOI： 10.1631/FITEE.1800575.

摘要

当前，网络空间已经成为社会基础设施的一个重要组成部分。随着网络规模快速发展，应用程序和服务日益丰富，底层网络设备（如交换机和路由器）承载功能被不断扩展。为提升网络动态架构、安全性和服务质量，网络控制平面与数据平面的解耦是网络技术发展趋势。目前，软件定义网络（SDN）是新兴网络领域最热门、最具前景的技术之一。在SDN中，通过在专有设备部署高级别策略指导网络设备数据转发，减少网络设备复杂功能。SDN有利于实现网络新技术、新协议，提升部署功能灵活性和可操作性。然而，该新型网络技术面临架构和安全方面的新挑战。本文为可编程SDN最新进展相关研究提供一个全面综述，分析已被研究和有待解决的问题，并分析在框架架构和安全领域的发展趋势。

Abstract

Nowadays

cyberspace has become a vital part of social infrastructure. With the rapid development of the scale of networks

applications and services have become enriched

and the bearing function of the underlying network devices (such as switches and routers) has also been extended. To promote the dynamics architecture

high-level security

and high quality of service of the network

control network architecture forward separation is a development trend of the networking technology. Currently

software-defined networking (SDN) is one of the most popular and promising technologies. In SDN

high-level strategies are deployed by the proprietary equipment

which is used to guide the data forwarding of the network equipment. This can reduce many complicated functions of the network equipment and improve the flexibility and operability of the implementation and deployment of new network technologies and protocols. However

this novel networking technology faces novel challenges in term of architecture and security. The aim of this study is to offer a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research on novel advances of programmable SDN

and to highlight what has been investigated and what remains to be addressed

particularly

in terms of architecture and security.

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