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Towards an Efficient Management and Orchestration Framework for Virtual Network Security Functions
Joint Authors
Pedone, Ignazio
Lioy, Antonio
Valenza, Fulvio
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-11-12
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
The recent years have witnessed a growth in the number of users connected to computer networks, due mainly to megatrends such as Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, and Smart Grids.
Simultaneously, service providers started offering vertical services related to a specific business case (e.g., automotive, banking, and e-health) requiring more and more scalability and flexibility for the infrastructures and their management.
NFV and SDN technologies are a clear way forward to address these challenges even though they are still in their early stages.
Security plays a central role in this scenario, mainly because it must follow the rapid evolution of computer networks and the growing number of devices.
The main issue is to protect the end-user from the increasing threats, and for this reason, we propose in this paper a security framework compliant to the Security-as-a-Service paradigm.
In order to implement this framework, we leverage NFV and SDN technologies, using a user-centered approach.
This allows to customize the security service starting from user preferences.
Another goal of our work is to highlight the main relevant challenges encountered in the design and implementation of our solution.
In particular, we demonstrate how significant is to choose an efficient way to configure the Virtual Network Security Functions in terms of performance.
Furthermore, we also address the nontrivial problem of Service Function Chaining in an NFV MANO platform and we show what are the main challenges with respect to this problem.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Pedone, Ignazio& Lioy, Antonio& Valenza, Fulvio. 2019. Towards an Efficient Management and Orchestration Framework for Virtual Network Security Functions. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210310
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Pedone, Ignazio…[et al.]. Towards an Efficient Management and Orchestration Framework for Virtual Network Security Functions. Security and Communication Networks No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210310
American Medical Association (AMA)
Pedone, Ignazio& Lioy, Antonio& Valenza, Fulvio. Towards an Efficient Management and Orchestration Framework for Virtual Network Security Functions. Security and Communication Networks. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210310
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1210310