What Can Ail Thee: New and Old Security Vulnerabilities of Wireless Datacenters

摘要

Utilizing millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication in wireless datacenter networks, the power consumption of the networking equipment can be reduced drastically. However, security of a datacenter is one of the highest design priorities. Many studies on the security of wired datacenters including identifying the possible threats and solutions have been explored in the literature. On the contrary, being an emerging technology, no study has been conducted on the security for the wireless datacenters. Being a wireless system, it has the potential to inherit many of the threats of a typical wireless network. So, in order to successfully realize wireless datacenter architectures, it is essential to do an extensive investigation of the system from a security perspective. In this paper, we study both existing as well as novel threats and their impact on the wireless datacenter network. In addition to these conventional threats, we demonstrate the impact of a novel attack on the wireless datacenter which can be launched by leveraging its control plane.