4 papers
Distributed Access Control with Blockchain
Jordi Paillisse, Jordi Subira, Albert Lopez +4
The specification and enforcement of network-wide policies in a single administrative domain is common in today's networks and considered as already resolved. However, this is not…
IPchain: Securing IP Prefix Allocation and Delegation with Blockchain
Jordi Paillisse, Miquel Ferriol, Eric Garcia +8
We present IPchain, a blockchain to store the allocations and delegations of IP addresses, with the aim of easing the deployment of secure interdomain routing systems. Interdomain…
Securing the Control-plane Channel and Cache of Pull-based ID/LOC Protocols
Paul Almasan, Jordi Paillisse, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal +5
Pull-based ID/LOC split protocols, such as LISP (RFC6830), retrieve mappings from a mapping system to encapsulate and forward packets. This is done by means of a control-plane chan…
SDN for End-Nodes: Scenario Analysis and Architectural Guidelines
Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Vina Ermagan, Kien Nguyen +4
The advent of SDN has brought a plethora of new architectures and controller designs for many use-cases and scenarios. Existing SDN deployments focus on campus, datacenter and WAN…