Access control for a database-defined network
Noemi Glaeser, Anduo Wang · 2016
Software-defined networking (SDN) allows the insertion of software that manages the network through a centralized controller. While the controller improves network management through features such as network-wide and higher-level abstraction, the urgent requirement of security is still less well-studied. Ravel is a database-defined controller which, like many other SDN controllers, currently exposes all network states to its users without implementing any security measures. This position paper proposes a novel way to implement access control, a specific aspect of security for SDN, in the setting of the Ravel controller.