FORTRESS: An Efficient and Distributed Firewall for Stateful Data Plane SDN
Joint Authors
Caprolu, Maurantonio
Raponi, Simone
Di Pietro, Roberto
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-16, 16 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-02-19
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
16
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
The Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm decouples the logic module from the forwarding module on traditional network devices, bringing a wave of innovation to computer networks.
Firewalls, as well as other security appliances, can largely benefit from this novel paradigm.
Firewalls can be easily implemented by using the default OpenFlow rules, but the logic must reside in the control plane due to the dynamic nature of their rules that cannot be handled by data plane devices.
This leads to a nonnegligible overhead in the communication channel between layers, as well as introducing an additional computational load on the control plane.
To address the above limitations, we propose the architectural design of FORTRESS: a stateful firewall for SDN networks that leverages the stateful data plane architecture to move the logic of the firewall from the control plane to the data plane.
FORTRESS can be implemented according to two different architectural designs: Stand-Alone and Cooperative, each one with its own peculiar advantages.
We compare FORTRESS against FlowTracker, the state-of-the-art solution for SDN firewalling, and show how our solution outperforms the competitor in terms of the number of packets exchanged between the control plane and the data plane—we require 0 packets for the Stand-Alone architecture and just 4 for the Cooperative one.
Moreover, we discuss how the adaptability, elegant and modular design, and portability of FORTRESS contribute to make it the ideal candidate for SDN firewalling.
Finally, we also provide further research directions.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Caprolu, Maurantonio& Raponi, Simone& Di Pietro, Roberto. 2019. FORTRESS: An Efficient and Distributed Firewall for Stateful Data Plane SDN. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210538
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Caprolu, Maurantonio…[et al.]. FORTRESS: An Efficient and Distributed Firewall for Stateful Data Plane SDN. Security and Communication Networks No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210538
American Medical Association (AMA)
Caprolu, Maurantonio& Raponi, Simone& Di Pietro, Roberto. FORTRESS: An Efficient and Distributed Firewall for Stateful Data Plane SDN. Security and Communication Networks. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210538
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1210538