Effect of Binding Attack on Software Defined Network

Abstract

The internet has created a digital society, where people from various circles can connect to each other and can be accessed easily. But despite being widely adopted, traditional networks are still widely implemented where these networks are complex and difficult to manage. Software Defined Network (SDN) offers a solution where managing a network becomes easier with the centralized controller. However, because of the ease of SDN in managing the network, SDN has a very worrying security gap where Attackers attack Controllers that are taken over by the network. By using a new attack method called Persona Hijacking that disrupts the identifier binding process, SDN will go through a testing process by comparing how long the Persona Hijacking attack will take time and how the impact of this attack using two scenarios. The first testing scenario combines DHCP with Controller and the second test scenario by separating DHCP and Controller. This study indicates that the second scenario produces a larger black-hole presentation, which is 66% and takes 10 seconds slower than the first scenario.