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Securing Industrial Wireless Networks: Enhancing SDN with PhySec

Christoph Lipps; Dennis Krummacker; Hans Dieter Schotten
In: Second International Conference on Next Generation Computing Applications 2019. Next Generation Computing Applications (NextComp-2019), September 19-21, Balaclava, Mauritius, IEEE Xplore, 9/2019.

Zusammenfassung

The requirements regarding network management defined by the continuously rising amount of interconnected de- vices in the industrial landscape turns it into an increasingly complex task. Associated by the fusion of technologies up to Cyber- Physical Production Systems (CPPS) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with its multitude of communicating sensors and actuators new demands arise. In particular, the driving forces of this development, mobility and flexibility, are affecting today’s networks. However, it is pre- cisely these wireless solutions, as enabler for this advancement, that create new attack vectors and cyber-security threats. Furthermore, many cryptographic procedures, intended to secure the networks, require additional overhead, which is limiting the transmission bandwidth and speed as well. For this reason, new and efficient solutions must be developed and applied, in order to secure the existing, as well as the future, industrial communication networks. This work proposes a conceptual approach, consisting of a combi- nation of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Physical Layer Security (PhySec) to satisfy the network security requirements. Use cases are explained that demonstrate the appropriateness of the approach and it is shown that this is a easy to use and resource efficient, but nevertheless sound and secure approach.

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