A Secure Collaborative Module on Distributed SDN

Abstract

Stability and security are the most important two release requirements of a modern application development process. As the number of users of an application increases, the network traffic grows. This results in an increase in the server load as well as the threats. If this traffic is not nicely controlled the user would experience a mitigation in application’s performance. To provide a continuous and secure service, the load on the system must be optimally distributed among multiple servers. In the literature, there are various algorithms that are proposed to balance the load on a system. In this study, we introduce a load balancing module for a generic web application to distribute the load optimally using Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers. The proposed system employs a round-robin scheme for server allocation and implements an open-source SDN controller that runs inside a docker container. To provide reliability, the web application is developed using the ReactJS and NodeJS. The privacy and data confidentiality is provided by using the NISTs new format preserving encryption standard. The proposed method is suitable for real world applications as shown in the performance profiling that we carried using Openload toolset.