SDN-Addressless IPv6 model for securing web servers.
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2024-02-05
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Saba’a Imad Hussein
Hala Thafer Malhas
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Abstract
The Internet is affecting and driving the world
we live in. All the services used nowadays are becoming more
Internet-dependant. Which makes the security of Internet-driven
services a crucial part. Many studies focused on securing publicly
available servers either by improving its availability and hard-
ening its security. Addressless servers[1] is an example for such
studies. This is done by generating a new address for the server’s
for each connection, which hides the acctual server’s identifier
and makes it difficult to attack. However, addressless solutions
require repeated connections by the client which introduces
an increased overhead. This study proposes ”SDN-addressless
model for IPv6” to overcome those limitations. This is done
by employing Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and HTTP
redirection to alleviate network overhead. The proposed method
focuses on establishing a streamlined, addressless model utilizing
SDN principles for dynamic routing decisions and incorporating
HTTP redirection to optimize communication between clients and
servers.
In this model, the need for predefined static IP for each server
is eliminated, and addresses are dynamically allocated based on
SDN-controlled decisions. SDN provides centralized control over
network configurations, making it possible for an intelligent load-
based routing choices that enhance resource utilization, while
achieving its main target of providing secure server operation
and minimizing latency.