Security and Communication Networks
Special Issue on
Software-Defined Networking:
Establishing Security, Privacy, and Trust in
the Network
CALL FOR PAPERS
In recent years, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has attracted great interest
from both academia and industry. The objective of this technology is to reduce costs
by simplification, automation, and virtualization. SDN makes the customization of
the networks easy, reduces the set-up time, and facilitates network deployment with a
right quality of service. SDN promises to dramatically simplify network management
and enable innovation through network programmability. While many efforts are
currently being made to standardize this emerging paradigm, careful attention needs
to be also paid to the security and privacy aspects of SDN.
SDN security needs to be built into the architecture and delivered as a service
to protect the availability, integrity, and privacy of all connected resources and
information. In SDN, network security can be enhanced by means of global visibility
of the network state. For example, the logically centralized control plane can easily
solve a conflict. However, the separation of the control and data planes opens security
challenges, such as denial of service (DoS) attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and
saturation attacks. In addition, the centralized controller is a high-profit target for an
attacker; the northbound and southbound interfaces are vulnerable also to threats
that could degrade the availability, performance, and integrity of the network.
The aim of the special issue is to present leading edge work concerning privacy
protection issues, trust models, and security challenges in the field of Software
Defined Networking.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
Security modelling and threat in SDN
Software-defined security for SDN architecture
Trust models between third party applications and the controller in SDN
Traffic and resource isolation protocols for SDN
Privacy protection in SDN
Privacy policy framework for SDN
Establishment of trust models and trust boundaries in SDN
Interface Security protection on Application-Control Programming Interface
A-CPI and I-CPI Identity management protocols for SDN users and
components
Access control mechanisms for all components and users of SDN
Effective protocols for building authentication, authorization and accounting
implementations in SDN
Security architectures for SDN
Security protocols for SDN
Privacy-preserving data mining for SDN
Information sharing and data protection in SDN
Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in SDN
Risk management in SDN environments
Mechanisms to enforce privacy and trust in SDN
Energy/cost/efficiency of security in SDNs
Trust, reputation and policy management in SDNs
Privacy-preserving data access in SDNs
Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at
http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/scn/snspt/.
Lead Guest Editor
Raquel Lacuesta, University of
Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
[email protected]
Guest Editors
Danda B. Rawat, Howard University,
Washington, USA
[email protected]
Guangjie Han, Hohai University,
Changzhou, China
[email protected]
Iván-García Magariño, University of
Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
[email protected]
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, City
University of London, London, UK
[email protected]
Manuscript Due
Friday, 28 July 2017
First Round of Reviews
Friday, 20 October 2017
Publication Date
Friday, 15 December 2017