A Survey of SDN Data Plane Attacks and Defense Strategies
Wen‐Xiu Zhang, Shan Jing, Chuan Zhao · 2023
The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm proposes the decoupling of control and data planes and a centralized software-oriented management approach based on a central controller, easing the development of new applications and services, and fundamentally changed the network architecture. This paper introduces the present situation of SDN and its data plane research, but as with traditional networks, there are multiple vulnerabilities in the security aspects of the SDN architecture, which can be used to perform malicious operations with these vulnerabilities to affect the network and its services. In this paper, the SDN data plane security issues are mainly discussed, the attacks on the SDN data plane are summarized, and the existing attack defense policies are summarized and compared. Finally, the research direction of SDN data plane security is proposed and the whole paper is summarized.