Soft MUD: Implementing Manufacturer Usage Descriptions on OpenFlow SDN Switches

摘要

A Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) is a generalized network Access Control List that allows manufacturers to declare intended communication patterns for devices. Such devices are restricted to only communicate in the manner intended by the manufacturer, thus reducing their potential to launch Distributed Denial of Service attacks. We present a scalable implementation of the MUD standard on OpenFlow-enabled Software Defined Networking switches.