A Smart Distributed Marketplace

Kapassa, Evgenia; Touloupos, Marios; Kyriazis, Dimosthenis; Themistocleous, Marinos

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_34

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“…The Network Service Slice Provider then verifies the legitimacy of the client by ensuring that it is registered before processing the request and providing it with the instance, thereby avoiding any risk of a man-in-the-middle attack. In addition, our framework integrates a virtualised network function orchestration management platform for 5G networks, an aspect not addressed by works (Mishra et al, 2020), (Scheid et al, 2019) and (Kapassa et al, 2020) cited in the bibliography. We have also introduced the use of a randomly generated nonce, which is only accessible to clients registered with the provider.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the gas costs associated with the interactions implied in the BUNKER project have not been calculated. (Kapassa et al, 2020) proposed a smart distributed NFV marketplace design solution based on the principle of a multi-faceted repository, supporting the storage, publication and proposition of VNF/NS developed in a 5G infrastructure, the use of smart contracts have led to an increase in transparency and trust, as well as verification of license models. However, the model does not include any NFV solution and storage is based on a centralized database rather than a distributed file system.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Blockchain-Based Security Framework for VNF Package Protection in 5G Network Slicing Services

Boukessessa,

Ghazli,

Ali-Pacha

2024

Transport and Telecommunication Journal

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The demand for scalable, open and granular networks has enabled mobile networks such as 5G to adopt new concepts including NFV (Network Function Virtualization). NFV separates the dependency of network functions from the hardware component, allowing them to be deployed flexibly and dynamically across network slices. In this way, operators can deliver personalized services and optimize the use of network resources, contributing to greater operational efficiency and an enhanced end-user experience. However, there are several issues to be addressed, such as the security of VNFs and the way in which service provider customers instantiate NSSIs (Network Slice Subnet Instance). In this article, we present a new approach based on blockchain 2.0, which guarantees the immutability of VNFs and templates, as well as highly secure instantiation with access management and support for replay attacks.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Blockchain-Based Security Framework for VNF Package Protection in 5G Network Slicing Services

Boukessessa,

Ghazli,

Ali-Pacha

2024

Transport and Telecommunication Journal

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“…In this context, the need for trust/security between buyer and providers drives the need to integrate DLT because it can redefine the interaction and provide a safe environment for negotiation of resources with its features like consensus and immutability [132]. Ultimately, a decentralized marketplace's role is to introduce an economic plane for exchange of services, VNFs, or resources among service providers by promoting trust and transparency.…”

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Distributed Ledger Technologies for Network Slicing: A Survey

et al. 2022

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Network slicing is one of the fundamental tenets of Fifth Generation (5G)/Sixth Generation (6G) networks. Deploying slices requires end-to-end (E2E) control of services and the underlying resources in a network substrate featuring an increasing number of stakeholders. Beyond the technical difficulties this entails, there is a long list of administrative negotiations among parties that do not necessarily trust each other, which often requires costly manual processes, including the legal construction of neutral entities. In this context, Blockchain comes to the rescue by bringing its decentralized yet immutable and auditable lemdger, which has a high potential in the telco arena. In this sense, it may help to automate some of the above costly processes. There have been some proposals in this direction that are applied to various problems among different stakeholders. This paper aims at structuring this field of knowledge by, first, providing introductions to network slicing and blockchain technologies. Then, state-of-the-art is presented through a global architecture that aggregates the various proposals into a coherent whole while showing the motivation behind applying Blockchain and smart contracts to network slicing. And finally, some limitations of current work, future challenges and research directions are also presented.

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“…In addition, many studies show that merging DLT/blockchain and network slicing could achieve multiple purposes. Firstly, since the DLT with smart contract could create an automated marketplace or auction platform, network slices and corresponding services can be negotiated among consumers, network operators, and industrial vertical players [50,51] . Secondly, another challenge raised by multi-tenant and multi-domain network slicing scenarios is much higher chances of attacks inside the network.…”

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Blockchain for Network Slicing in 5G and Beyond: Survey and Challenges

Bao

Liang

2022

J. Commun. Inf. Netw.

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Network slicing has gained popularity as a result of the advances in the fifth generation (5G) mobile network. Network slicing facilitates the support of different service types with varying requirements, which brings into light the slicing-aware next generation mobile network architecture. While allowing resource sharing among multiple stakeholders, there is a long list of administrative negotiations among parties that have not established mutual trust. Distributed ledger technology may be a solution to mitigate the above issues by taking its decentralized yet immutable and auditable ledger, which may help to ease administrative negotiations and build mutual trust among multi-stakeholders. There have been many research interests in this direction which focus on handling various problems in network slicing. This paper aims at constructing this area of knowledge by introducing network slice from a standardization point of view to start with, and presenting security, privacy, and trust challenges of network slicing in 5G and beyond networks. Furthermore, this paper covers distributed ledger technologies basics and related approaches that tackle security, privacy, and trust threats in network slicing for 5G and beyond networks. The various proposals proposed in the literature are compared and presented. Lastly, limitations of current work and open challenges are illustrated as well.

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A Smart Distributed Marketplace

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Blockchain-Based Security Framework for VNF Package Protection in 5G Network Slicing Services

Blockchain-Based Security Framework for VNF Package Protection in 5G Network Slicing Services

Distributed Ledger Technologies for Network Slicing: A Survey

Blockchain for Network Slicing in 5G and Beyond: Survey and Challenges

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