Security & performance analysis brigade

Brigade Lead:

• Stefano Secci / Cnam <stefano.secci@cnam.fr>

Brigade Members:

• José Sanchez / Orange  

• Espinel David / Orange  
• Sebastian Dittrich / T-Systems DT

• Dominique Verchere / Nokia 

• Quan Pham Van / Nokia 

• Lalita Jagadeesan / Nokia 

• Abdelberi Chaabane / Nokia
• Marina Thottan / Nokia
• Duy Khuong / Nokia
• Jian Li / SK Telecom
• Andrea Campanella / ONF
• Suchitra Vemuri / ONF
• Sandra Scott-Hayward / QUB
• Dylan Smyth / CIT 
• Abdulhalim Dandoush / ESME

• Giacomo Verticale / Politecnico di Milano

• Chistophe Basquin / Airbus
• Alpha Sow / Airbus

• Kamel Attou / Anevia  

• Chi Dung Phung / Orange  

• Stefano Secci / Cnam  

• Kashyap Thimmaraju / TU Berlin
• Carmen Mas Machuca / TU Munich
• Petra Vizarreta / TU Munich

Reports: 

• S. Secci, K. Attou, DC. Phung, S. Scott-Hayward, D. Smyth, S. Vemuri, You Wang, "ONOS Security and Performance Analysis (1st report)", informational report, Open Networking Foundation, Sept. 2017.
• S. Secci, S. Scott-Hayward, Y. Wang, Q. Pham Van, D. Verchere, A. Sow, C. Basquin, D. Smyth, K. Attou, K. Thimmaraju, A. Campanella, 
  ONOS Security and Performance Analysis (2nd report), Informational Report, Open Networking Foundation, Nov. 2018.
• ONOS vs ODL security and performance analysis report. TBA
• Blog posts: 11/2017, 05/2018.

Forthcoming activities: 

• Annual brigade workshop, 2019.
  
  Venue & Date: Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) 2019, at Cnam, 292 rue St. Martin, Paris, on June 17, 2019, afternoon.
  
  13:00 - 14:00: Welcome coffee & poster session of the TMA doctoral school 
  14:00 - 14:15: Opening and round table
  14h15 - 15:55: Petra Vizarreta & Carmen Machuca (TUM, Germany)  - Assessing the reliability of SDN controllers with reliability growth models. 
  14:55 - 15:30: Dylan Smith (CIT, Ireland) - Latest security vulnerabilities and fixes
  15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break & poster session from the TMA doctoral school
  16:00 - 16:30: Sandra Scott-Hawyard (QUB, UK): Security aspects comparison between ODL and ONOS controllers
  16:30 - 17:00: Alessio Diamanti (Orange/Cnam, France) - Path recovery behavior comparison between ODL and ONOS controllers
  17:30 - 18:00: Carmelo Cascone (ONF, USA) - Proposed activity on P4Runtime performance evaluation
  
  19:30 : dinner at Pompidou restaurant (https://restaurantgeorgesparis.com) - registration to one of the TMA events needed for the dinner.
• Mailing list: secperf-brigade@onlab.us  

Past activities: 

• 2nd brigade plenary workshop, April 11, 2018, LIP6, Paris, France.
  

  Venue & Date: LIP6, Sorbonne University (SU), Paris - April 11, 2018

  10:00 - ONOS vs ODL : path restoration / José Sanchez (Orange, France)
  10:30 - ONOS vs ODL : security aspects / Sandra Scott-Hayward (QUB, UK)
  11:00 - ONOS vs ODL : bundle failures / Kamel Attou (LIP6/Anevia, France)
  11:45 - SDN Teleportation: Exploiting the Control Plane for Covert Communication / Kashyap Thimmaraju (TUB, Germany)
  12:30 - lunch break
  14:00 - ONOS Performance Benchmarking with NETCONF / Dominique Verchere (Nokia, France)
  14:30 - ONOS NETCONF module test with Paxterra’s TestON framework / Alpha Sow (SU/Airbus), Christophe Basquin (Airbus)
  15:00 - Evaluation of XMPP as a Southbound Interface for ONOS - demo / Thomasz Osinski (Orange, Poland), Abdulalhid Dandous (ESME, France)
  15:30 - Evaluation of the Equally Cost Multi-Paths protocol with ONOS / Guillaume, Bruno, Mathias (ESME, France)
  16:00 - Setting up DELTA in a heterogenous telco SDN environment - demo / Sebastian Dittrich (DT/T-Systems, Germany)
  16:30 - State of the art and challenges on consistency management at switch and controller layers / Rémi Oudin (ENS/LIP6, France)
  17:00 - ONOS Performance Numbers (using 1.12 and 1.13) with Eventual Consistent Flow Rule Store - Suchitra/You (ONF, USA) 

  
  

• ONOS Build 2017 @Samsung, Seoul: 1st brigade report presentations and demos at SDN Science Fair and Community Showcases.
• IEEE NETSOFT 2017, July 3-7, Bologna (ONOS+CORD tutorial)
• ONOS hackathon projects at RESCOM 2017, 20-21 June, 2017, Croisic, France.
• 1st brigade workshop: May 26, LIP6, Paris, France. 

Goals:

●  Assess controller robustness against network and system attacks

●  Assess controller robustness against software bundle-level and Karaf-level bugs

●  Assess controller performance (e.g., detection time, recovery time) in case of software and network failures

●  Identify countermeasures to cope with attacks and bugs against weak software elements

●  Compare the ONOS controller to other equivalent controllers in terms of network and system performance of core services and bundles as well as of southbound interface plugins
  

●  Evaluate control-plane performance in multi-layer/domain scenarios.  

Tasks:

●  A report about identified security & performance issues for each release.      

●  Run monthly e-meetings with presentations of experiment results.


●  Run exploratory hackathons and tutorials at workshops and conferences.

How to get involved:

To get involved is easy, just write to Stefano Secci or simply send a message to the mailing list (secperf-brigade@onlab.us) with a description of your activities.