TeraFlow: Secured Autonomic Traffic Management for a Tera of SDN flows
Ricard Vilalta, Raül Muñoz, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, Vı́ctor López, Óscar González de Dios, Antonio Pastor, Georgios P. Katsikas, Felix Klaedtke, Paolo Monti, Alberto Mozó, Thomas Zinner, Harald Øverby, Sergio Gonzalez-Diaz, Håkon Lønsethagen, Jose-Miguel Pulido, Daniel King
Abstract
TeraFlow proposes a new type of secure, cloud-native Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller that will radically advance the state-of-the-art in beyond 5G networks by introducing novel micro-services architecture, and provide revolutionary features for both flow management (service layer) and optical/microwave network equipment integration (infras-tructure layer) by adapting new data models. TeraFlow will also incorporate security using Machine Learning (ML) and forensic evidence for multi-tenancy based on Distributed Ledgers. Finally, this new SDN controller shall be able to integrate with the current Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) frameworks as well as to other networks. The target pool of TeraFlow stakeholders expands beyond the traditional telecom operators towards edge and hyperscale cloud providers.