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Journal Of Network security

A Decrease in the Encryption Latency Utilizing Transport Layer Protocols for Software Defined Networks

  1. Muhammad Saddheer
  2. Waqas Ahmad
  3. Muhammad Nadeem
  4. Syeda Wajiha Zahra
  5. Ali Arshad
  6. Saman Riaz

Abstract

Data centers and business networks are rapidly using SDN (Software Defined Networking), an emerging technology. It isolates the control plane from the underlying data or forwarding plane to allow more efficient and customized network control with a global view of the underlying network. A variety of encryption algorithms created for network-level data encryption and decryption must be used in a PC network for every application communication to be encrypted at the transmission end and decrypted at the receiving end. Unfortunately, the time it takes to transform plain text into encrypted text due to encryption computations might slow down the performance of the communication protocol stack. This study aims to simulate and investigate the effects of encryption delay caused by encryption calculations on TCP and UDP transport layer protocols in an SDN network environment. We will consider and investigate performance measures including data, throughput, and end-to-end packet delay under the suggested SDN simulation settings using a realistic network simulator.

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