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    Blockchain-based authentication and authorization for software defined networks
    Latah, Majd; Kalkan, Kübra; Çakmakçı, Kübra Kalkan; Arı, İsmail; Alagöz, F.; Levi, A.; Department of Computer Science
    Software-defined networking (SDN) is a novel networking paradigm that allows a simple and flexible management of the underlying forwarding devices through a centralized controller. However, SDN suffers from different security issues that may paralyze the whole network when the controller is under attack. Blockchain (BC) is considered a new technology that provides a decentralized distributed ledger, which can be used to protect the SDN controller from other malicious components in the network. In this thesis, we investigate the integration between SDN and BC technology. We focus on BC-enabled authentication and authorization for SDNs. First, we propose, DPSec, a blockchain-based data plane authentication protocol for SDNs. Second, we improve the performance of BC-enabled SDN by proposing a component-wise waiting time approach. We also utilize lattice-based signatures and Key Encapsulation Methods (KEMs) to improve the security of BC-SDN. Third, we introduce, HostSec, a blockchain-based approach that provides mutual host-controller, Packet-In/Packet-Out and host-host authentication for SDNs. Fourth, we propose, SDN-API-Sec, a blockchain-based access control method for cross-domain SDNs by utilizing BC smart contracts. The results suggest a trade-off between security and latency.