SDN-based path hopping communication against eavesdropping attack

Chuanhao Zhang; Youjun Bu; Zheng Zhao

doi:10.1117/12.2246538

25 October 2016 SDN-based path hopping communication against eavesdropping attack

Chuanhao Zhang, Youjun Bu, Zheng Zhao

Proceedings Volume 10158, Optical Communication, Optical Fiber Sensors, and Optical Memories for Big Data Storage; 101580J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2246538
Event: International Symposium on Optoelectronic Technology and Application 2016, 2016, Beijing, China

Abstract

Network eavesdropping is one of the most popular means used by cyber attackers, which has been a severe threat to network communication security. Adversaries could capture and analyze network communication data from network nodes or links, monitor network status and steal sensitive data such as username and password etc. Traditional network usually uses static network configuration, and existing defense methods, including firewall, IDS, IPS etc., cannot prevent eavesdropping, which has no distinguishing characteristic. Network eavesdropping become silent during most of the time of the attacking process, which is why it is difficult to discover and to defend. But A successful eavesdropping attack also has its’ precondition, which is the target path should be relatively stable and has enough time of duration. So, In order to resolve this problem, it has to work on the network architecture. In this paper, a path hopping communication(PHC) mechanism based on Software Define Network（SDN）was proposed to solve this problem. In PHC, Ends in communication packets as well as the routing paths were changed dynamically. Therefore, the traffic would be distributed to multiple flows and transmitted along different paths. so that Network eavesdropping attack could be prevented effectively. It was concluded that PHC was able to increase the overhead of Network eavesdropping, as well as the difficulty of communication data recovery.

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Chuanhao Zhang, Youjun Bu, and Zheng Zhao "SDN-based path hopping communication against eavesdropping attack", Proc. SPIE 10158, Optical Communication, Optical Fiber Sensors, and Optical Memories for Big Data Storage, 101580J (25 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2246538

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