Service Chaining Security Based on Blockchain

Abstract

The SDN (Software Defined Networking) service chaining can take advantage of the separation of control and forwarding in the SDN network, centrally manage and coordinate various physical and virtual resources to dynamically meet users' complex network service needs. At present, most researches on SDN service chaining are about the service chaining protocol and composition structure, service chaining mapping and service chaining strategy description. However, there is no traceable data storage method for the stability of the performance of the service nodes. This paper proposes to use blockchain technology to ensure the reliable traceability of the service chaining data. Meanwhile, in order to improve the retrieval efficiency, this paper designs and implements the combination of virtual chain and Bloom filter, and through the design of smart contract to achieve the query rate of 584.7KB/s under the condition of using blockchain. Besides, the system can save 28.7% of the retrieval time in the case of a large number of service chaining data storage. These experimental results prove that the system design can be well applied in the service chaining scenario.