Title :
Secure your Northbound SDN API
Author :
Oktian, Yustus Eko ; SangGon Lee ; HoonJae Lee ; JunHuy Lam
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ubiquitous IT, Dongseo Univ., Busan, South Korea
Abstract :
A lot of new features and capabilities emerge in the network because of separation of data plane and control plane in Software Defined Network (SDN) terminology. One of them is the possibility to implement Northbound API to allow third-party application to access resources of the network. However, most of the current implementations of Northbound API do not consider the security aspect. Therefore, we design more secure scheme for it. The design consists of token authentication for application and user, who is responsible to control/use the application/network, using OAuth 2.0 protocol.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; computer network security; cryptographic protocols; software defined networking; Northbound SDN API; OAuth 2.0 protocol; SDN terminology; authentication; software defined network terminology; Authentication; Authorization; Proposals; Protocols; Servers; Software defined networking; Northbound API; SDN; authentication; token;
Conference_Titel :
Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2015 Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sapporo
DOI :
10.1109/ICUFN.2015.7182679
