A NEAT framework for application-awareness in SDN environments

Santos, Reginaldo Bezerra dos; Bozakov, Zdravko; Mangiante, Simone; Brunström, Anna; Kassler, Andreas

doi:10.23919/ifipnetworking.2017.8264887

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“…In [26], the authors presented a general framework for the end-host of SDN networks that are integrated into the NEAT transport structure. The framework provides communication interfaces between applications and external controllers.…”

Section: Application-aware and Traffic Classification Solutions In Sdnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application-Aware Firewall Mechanism for Software Defined Networks

Nife

Kotulski

2020

J Netw Syst Manage

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Software-Defined-Networking (SDN) has been recently arising as a new technology in the IT industry. It is a network architecture that hopes to provide better solutions to most of the constraints in contemporary networks. SDN is a centralized control architecture for networking in which the control plane is separated from the data plane, the network services are abstracted from the underlying forwarding devices, and the network's intelligence is centralized in a software-based directly-programmed device called a controller. These features of SDN provide more flexible, programmable and innovative network's architecture. However, they may pose new vulnerabilities and may lead to new security problems. In this paper, we propose the application-aware firewall mechanism for SDN, which can be implemented as an extension to the network's controller. In order to provide more control and visibility in applications running over the network, the system is able to detect network applications that may at some point affect network's performance, and it is capable to dynamically enforce constraint rules on applications. The firewall architecture is designed as four cooperating modules: the Main Module, the Filtering Module, the Application Identification Module, and the Security-Enforcement Module. The proposed mechanism checks the network traffic at the network, transport, and application levels, and installs appropriate security instructions down into the network. The proposed solution features were implemented and tested using a Python-based POX controller, and the network topology was built using Mininet emulation tool.

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Section: Application-aware and Traffic Classification Solutions In Sdnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application-Aware Firewall Mechanism for Software Defined Networks

Nife

Kotulski

2020

J Netw Syst Manage

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“…The NEAT framework [25] adds the application aware functionality to SDN networks. Each computer owns a local NEAT agent.…”

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Management of industrial communications slices: Towards the Application Driven Networking concept

Abdellatif

Berthou

Villemur

et al. 2020

Computer Communications

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To address the performance problems that many business critical applications are experiencing, network vendors and Network Service Providers (NSP) are reconsidering the integration of some form of application awareness in the way their networks forward user traffic. Their ultimate goal is to devise new network service models that are dedicated and customized to applications while efficiently using network resources. Even if this approach is not new and has been already followed with a mitigated success two decades ago, the emergence of software-Defined networking and network virtualization coupled with DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) pave the way for the investigation of new approaches/solutions towards application aware/driven networks. This is exactly the motivations of this work whose objective is to propose an Application Driven Network (ADN) that provides services to a specific type of applications, i.e. Dynamic Data Distribution Service (DDS) based applications. Considered as one of the leading connectivity standard for industrial IoT communications, focusing on DDS allows a fine-grained description of applications' traffic and needs. With this information as input, the proposed ADN is able to provision network services that stick to application needs while using network resources efficiently. This paper sketches the general architecture of such ADN by describing its main components, their requirements as well as their algorithms. This solution has been implemented, prototyped and applied to a DDS based distributed interactive simulation application.

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Deep Neural Networks for Application Awareness in SDN-Based Network

Wang

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)

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A NEAT framework for application-awareness in SDN environments

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Application-Aware Firewall Mechanism for Software Defined Networks

Application-Aware Firewall Mechanism for Software Defined Networks

Management of industrial communications slices: Towards the Application Driven Networking concept

Deep Neural Networks for Application Awareness in SDN-Based Network

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