Workshop on Science of Security through Software-Defined Networking

with_chicagoJune 16-17, 2016
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging networking paradigm that promises to convey huge benefits — from reducing the complexities of network traffic control and management to empowering the design of agile networks that can adapt to changing application requirements. The principal feature of SDN is a programmable network operating system achieved through a separation of the control from the data plane. Although there has been a growing interest in innovative uses of SDN to offer fine-grained control and strategies over network-based security functions, this body of research remains largely disconnected from mainstream systems security research. The highly structured approach of SDN offers significant advantages in developing formal guarantees for security. In particular, we may be able to develop a science around the subject that allows us to better measure the effectiveness of any newly developed solutions for security in this space.

The goal of this workshop is to identify opportunities and challenges in using SDNs to advance the ‘science of security’.  We have brought together leaders from SDN and security in a two-day workshop that consists of invited talks, poster sessions and panel discussions. The speakers and participants will get a chance to place their research in the context of some broad topics that will help explore the area further.

Topics of interest include:

Program:

Keynote: Research Challenges in SDN | slides
Anita Nikolich, Program Director for Cybersecurity, Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

SDNs, Clouds and Security | slides
Roy Campbell, Associate Dean for Information Technology, College of Engineering and Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Towards Network Aware VM Migration – Evaluating the Cost of VM Migration in SDN-based Cloud Computing Network | slides
Sachin Shetty, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee State University

Dynamic Graph Query Primitives for SDN-based Cloud Network Management | slides
Ramya Raghavendra, Research Scientist and Master Inventor, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

SDNShield: Reconciliating Configurable Application Permissions for SDN App Markets | slides
Yan Chen, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University

Dynamic Control of Real-time Communications (RTC) using SDN: A Case Study of a 5G End-to-end Service | slides
Vijay Gurbani, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories

Keynote: Developing and Maintaining Trust among SDN Entities | slides
Frank Acker, Computer Security Researcher, Trusted Systems Research Group, Department of Defense

Toward a Robust and Secure SDN Control Layer
Vinod Yegneswaran, Senior Computer Scientist, Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International

BigData Express – Toward Schedulable, Predictable, and High-performance Data Transfer | slides
Wenji Wu, Principal Network Research Investigator, Core Computing Division, Fermilab

RAINCOAT: Randomization of Network Connectivity in Industrial COnTrol Systems to Mitigate Cyber-Attacks
Hui Lin, Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ravishankar K. Iyer, George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Database-defined Network | slides
Anduo Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science, Temple University

Panel: How to Make Security for SDN a Science?
David Nicol, Franklin W. Woeltge Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director, Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anita Nikolich, Program Director for Cybersecurity, Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Frank Acker, Computer Security Researcher, Trusted Systems Research Group, Department of Defense
Vinod Yegneswaran, Senior Computer Scientist, Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International

Poster Session:

Composing Capability-Based Rules for Securing IoT Devices | poster
Yunhan Jack Jia and Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan

Efficient & Effective Network Protocol Attack Signature Generation for SDN Based Intrusion Detection Systems | poster
Qi Alfred Chen and Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan

Implications of SDN Denial of Service Mitigation | poster
John C. Hoag and Bahast Saber, Ohio University

Inter-flow Consistency in SDN Network Updates | poster
Smruti Padhy, Konstantin Evchenko, Sibin Mohan, Roy H. Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Weijie Liu, Veriflow Systems, Inc., and Rakesh B. Bobba, Oregon State University

NetSum: Mining Summaries of Network Configuration Changes | poster
Jason Croft, Shambwaditya Saha, Madhusudan Parthasarathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Anduo Wang, Temple University

Pulse-SDN: Pulse-Coupled Software Defined Networks for Circuit Switched Industrial Control Area Networks | poster
Reinhard Gentz, Anna Scaglione, Lorenzo Ferrari, and Y.-W. Peter Hong, Arizona State University

Software Defined Networking for Smart Grid Resilience | poster
Hui Lin, Xinshu Dong, Rui Tan, Ravishankar K. Iyer, and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Best Poster Winner: Towards a Secure and Resilient Industrial Control System with Software-Defined Networking | poster
Dong (Kevin) Jin, Jiaqi Yan, Xin Lin, Christopher Hannon, Illinois Institute of Technology, Hui Lin, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen Chen, Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory, and Cheol Won Lee, National Security Research Institute, South Korea

vSwitch Enhanced Programmable Measurement in SDN
A. Wang, Y. Guo, F. Hao, T. Lakshman, D. Montgomery, K. Sriram, GMU NIST Bell-Labs

Organizers:

Sibin Mohan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (sibin@illinois.edu)
Kevin Jin, Illinois Institute of Technology (dong.jin@iit.edu)

Sponsorship:

NSA SoS Lockv2

NSA Science of Security (SoS) Lablet at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.