Blockchain-Powered Software Defined Network-Enabled Networking Infrastructure for Cloud Management
This addresses security issues in cloud management for applications like big data analytics, but it appears incremental as it combines existing technologies.
The paper tackles cloud security challenges by integrating blockchain and software-defined networking (SDN) to secure cloud management platforms, resulting in enhanced integrity of control messages and autonomous bandwidth provisioning.
Cloud architecture has become a valuable solution for different applications, such as big data analytics, due to its high-degree of availability, scalability and strategic value. However, there still remain challenges in managing cloud architecture, in areas such as cloud security. In this paper, we exploit software-defined networking (SDN) and blockchain technologies to secure cloud management platforms from a networking perspective. We develop a blockchain-powered SDN-enabled networking infrastructure in which the integration between blockchain-based security and autonomy management layer and multi-controller SDN networking layer is defined to enhance the integrity of the control and management messages. Furthermore, our proposed networking infrastructure also enables the autonomous bandwidth provisioning to enhance the availability of cloud architecture. In the simulation section, we evaluate the performance of our proposed blockchain-powered SDN-enabled networking infrastructure by considering different scenarios.