Future Internet of Things with Software Defined Networking

Network Security

Future Internet of Things (IoT) will hook up with the web billions of heterogeneous smart devices with the capacity of interacting with the environment. Therefore, the proposed solutions from an IoT networking perspective must take under consideration the scalability of IoT nodes also because the operational cost of deploying the networking infrastructure. This will generate an enormous volume of knowledge, which poses an incredible challenge both from the transport, and processing of data point of view. Moreover, security issues appear, thanks to the very fact that untrusted IoT devices are interconnected towards the aggregation networks. In this paper, we propose the usage of a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) framework for introducing security in IoT gateways. An experimental validation of the framework is proposed, leading to the enforcement of network security at the network edge.

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