Evaluating Resource Saturation Attack During Controller-Switch Communication in SDN

Abstract

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a developing network paradigm that isolates the system’s control (Control plane) from the fundamental switches (Data Plane) and routers and acquainting the capacity of a program to organize operations. The control plane is intelligently brought together and the forwarding plane is rendered easy to follow up on the decisions from the control plane. Especially Controller and switch communication is more vulnerable to attacks by compromising the flow tables in switches. In this paper, we assess the effect of Resource Saturation attacks for various delays and bandwidth in SDN network. Through the evaluation, We highlight the effect of attack for different SDN topologies.