A security framework for systems-of-systems

Abstract

Systems of systems have been used recently in many complex scenarios to simplify network communication, resources allocation and management. Given the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of systems of systems, providing security in such an environment is challenging and requires significant management and processing resources. In this paper, a security framework based on the Multi-Label Switching Protocol is proposed, which not only provides the network with connectivity, reliability and Quality of Service, but also adds several security features such as traffic separation and isolation with minimal management and configuration overhead. Furthermore, a more advanced security configuration based on the integration of IPsec and Multi-Label Switching Protocol is proposed.