I DPID It My Way! A Covert Timing Channel in Software-Defined Networks

arXiv:2403.01878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Software-defined networking is considered a promising new paradigm, enabling more reliable and formally verifiable communication networks. However, this paper shows that the separation of the control plane from the data plane, which lies at the heart of Software-Defined Networks (SDNs), can be exploited for covert channels based on SDN Teleportation, even when the data planes are physically disconnected.
This paper describes the theoretical model and design of our covert timing channel based on SDN Teleportation. …

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