Mapsdn-Eesc: A Modeling of Authentication Process for the Software Defined Network Using Encrypted Entity Scheme Cryptography

Abstract

The distinguishing characteristics of the SDN provide flexibility to build a robust ubiquitous application but also suffer various security challenges. The effective authentication process provides solutions towards mitigating the adverse effect on network performance and data protection. The typical limitations of the existing systems of authentication are not so scalable due to the higher complexity of flow rule monitoring. The proposed model of the authentication for the SDN uses the mechanism suggested by Trusted Computing Group Specification Architecture and encrypted entity cryptography as an evolution of attributed based encryption. The proposed method MAPSDN-EESC provides lightweight authentication mechanism along with the cross-platform validation of the legitimate user. The proposed method EES reduces the latency by 12.89%, 9.2%, and 4.9% as compared to the existing method of SEND, CGA, and IDS, respectively. The CPU usage reduces by 14.44%, 9.60%, and 4.91% as compared to the existing method of SEND, CGA, and IDS, respectively. The fast authentication delays are lower by 17.44%, 10.44%, and 5.12 % as compared to the existing method of SEND, CGA, and IDS, respectively.