TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling Reconfigurable Naval SCADA Network through Software-Defined Networking
AU - Szatkowski, Justin Michael
AU - Li, Yan
AU - Du, Liang
N1 - Funding Information:
VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by the Naval Engineering Education Consortium program of under Office of Naval Research (ONR) Awards no. N00174-21-1-0005 and N00174-21-1-0006.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technique is presented in this paper to manage the Naval Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network for equipping the network with the function of reconfiguration and scalability. The programmable nature of SDN enables a programmable Modular Topology Generator (MTG), which provides an extensive control over the network's internal connectivity and traffic control. Specifically, two functions of MTG are developed and examined in this paper, namely linkHosts and linkSwitches. These functions are able to place the network into three different states, i.e., fully connected, fully disconnected, and partially connected. Therefore, it provides extensive security benefits and allows network administrators to dynamically reconfigure the network and adjust settings according to the network's needs. Extensive tests on Mininet have demonstrated the effectiveness of SDN for enabling the reconfigurable and scalable Naval SCADA network. Therefore, it provides a potent tool to enhance the resiliency/survivability, scalability/compatibility, and security of naval SCADA networks.
AB - Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technique is presented in this paper to manage the Naval Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network for equipping the network with the function of reconfiguration and scalability. The programmable nature of SDN enables a programmable Modular Topology Generator (MTG), which provides an extensive control over the network's internal connectivity and traffic control. Specifically, two functions of MTG are developed and examined in this paper, namely linkHosts and linkSwitches. These functions are able to place the network into three different states, i.e., fully connected, fully disconnected, and partially connected. Therefore, it provides extensive security benefits and allows network administrators to dynamically reconfigure the network and adjust settings according to the network's needs. Extensive tests on Mininet have demonstrated the effectiveness of SDN for enabling the reconfigurable and scalable Naval SCADA network. Therefore, it provides a potent tool to enhance the resiliency/survivability, scalability/compatibility, and security of naval SCADA networks.
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U2 - 10.1109/ITEC53557.2022.9813872
DO - 10.1109/ITEC53557.2022.9813872
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85134706501
T3 - 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2022
SP - 214
EP - 218
BT - 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2022
Y2 - 15 June 2022 through 17 June 2022
ER -