Layer-Based Attacks in the Ternary Planes of Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking is an emerging paradigm that anticipates changing the constraints followed by conventional networking architecture. It separated the control plane from the data plane and make the control plane a centralized hub of the network. By centralizing the controller, SDN carries a good hold over the whole network as the controller is having the information of every node of the network and provides an ease to the users by offering programmatic access. But on the other side of the coin, the criterion of security has to be done manually as it increases the working load of the networking administrators. So, the paper provided a comprehensive survey of different attacks in each layer of the SDN environment. In this paper, each plane and the interface of SDN are categorized further into different attacks that can occur in a particular stance. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed research work is the first-ever attempt to detect the attack in each layer as well as in between the interfaces of every layer of SDN. This work can be very essential for the network administrators and the researchers working in the field of attacks in SDN to find the layer-based attacks.