A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats and their Mitigation Techniques for next-generation SDN Controllers

Software Dened Network (SDN) and Network Virtualization (NV) are emerged paradigms that simplied the control and management of the next generation networks, most importantly, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, and Cyber-Physical Systems. The Internet of Things (IoT) includes a diverse range of a vast collection of heterogeneous devices that require interoperable communication, scalable platforms and security provisioning. Security provisioning to an SDN based IoT network pose a real security challenge leading to various serious security threats due to the connection of various heterogeneous devices having a wide range of access protocols . Furthermore, the logical centralized controlled intelligence of the SDN architecture represents a plethora of security challenges due to its single point of failure. it may throw the en tire network into chaos and thus expose it to various known and unknown security threats and attacks. security of SDN controlled IoT environment is still in infancy and thus remains the prime research agenda for both the industry and academia. This paper comprehensively reviews the current state-of-the-art security threats, vulnerabilities and issues at the control plane. Moreover, this paper contributes by presenting a detailed classfication of various security attacks on the control layer. A comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the latest mitigation techniques for various security breaches is also presented. Finally, the paper presents future research directions and challenges for further investigation down the line

Blending photons with electrons to reduce the energy footprint of IPTV networks

© 2016 IFIP. The rapid growth of IPTV services and the resulting increase in traffic volumes is raising concerns over energy consumption. In this paper we propose to save energy by shifting particular IPTV traffic from power-hungry electronic routing to greener optical switching. The traffic profile of IPTV results in such a hybrid switching approach to allow both energy and bandwidth efficiencies. To achieve this goal we designed a novel protocol that allows the use of optical bypass in IPTV networks. By means of a trace-driven analysis of a large dataset we demonstrate the energy efficiencies obtained to be substantial, reaching power savings of over 40% under normal load conditions. This result represents a four-fold increase in energy efficiency when compared with recent proposals