MTG: A High-Speed Malicious Traffic Generating Method and Implementation for Future Networks

Abstract

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been one of the most promising candidates for future Internet architectures, and it may be one of the best candidates for the future communication system of Smart Grid. Moreover, SDN facilitates a variety of technology innovations in network security area. In this paper, a high-speed malicious traffic generating method called as MTG is proposed, to test the security of future network architectures. MTG can assemble packets and send them at a very high speed up to 10Gbps using hardware-based methods, and shape the sent traffic to follow different patterns with the help of a dynamically interval-between-packets adjusting mechanism. Moreover, the performance of MTG is evaluated. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to design a hardware-based high-speed malicious traffic generating method for SDN.