FAS: Using FPGA to Accelerate and Secure SDN Software Switches
Joint Authors
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-01-17
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises the vision of more flexible and manageable networks but requires certain level of programmability in the data plane to accommodate different forwarding abstractions.
SDN software switches running on commodity multicore platforms are programmable and are with low deployment cost.
However, the performance of SDN software switches is not satisfactory due to the complex forwarding operations on packets.
Moreover, this may hinder the performance of real-time security on software switch.
In this paper, we analyze the forwarding procedure and identify the performance bottleneck of SDN software switches.
An FPGA-based mechanism for accelerating and securing SDN switches, named FAS (FPGA-Accelerated SDN software switch), is proposed to take advantage of the reconfigurability and high-performance advantages of FPGA.
FAS improves the performance as well as the capacity against malicious traffic attacks of SDN software switches by offloading some functional modules.
We validate FAS on an FPGA-based network processing platform.
Experiment results demonstrate that the forwarding rate of FAS can be 44% higher than the original SDN software switch.
In addition, FAS provides new opportunity to enhance the security of SDN software switches by allowing the deployment of bump-in-the-wire security modules (such as packet detectors and filters) in FPGA.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Fu, Wenwen& Li, Tao& Sun, Zhigang. 2018. FAS: Using FPGA to Accelerate and Secure SDN Software Switches. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Fu, Wenwen…[et al.]. FAS: Using FPGA to Accelerate and Secure SDN Software Switches. Security and Communication Networks No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214228
American Medical Association (AMA)
Fu, Wenwen& Li, Tao& Sun, Zhigang. FAS: Using FPGA to Accelerate and Secure SDN Software Switches. Security and Communication Networks. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214228
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214228