| Title | Securing Industrial Wireless Networks: Enhancing SDN with PhySec |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Lipps, Christoph, Krummacker, Dennis, Schotten, Hans Dieter |
| Conference Name | 2019 Conference on Next Generation Computing Applications (NextComp) |
| Keywords | actuator security, additional overhead, Communication networks, Communication system security, composability, computer network management, computer network security, cryptographic procedures, cryptography, cyber security, cyber-physical production systems, cyber-security threats, Human Behavior, industrial communication networks, industrial landscape, industrial wireless networks, interconnected devices, Internet of Things, Metrics, network management, Network security, network security requirements, PhySec, physical layer security, production engineering computing, pubcrawl, radio networks, Resiliency, SDN, secret key generation, Sensors, Software, software defined networking, software-defined networking, transmission bandwidth, Wireless communication, wireless solutions |
| Abstract | The requirements regarding network management defined by the continuously rising amount of interconnected devices in the industrial landscape turns it into an increasingly complex task. Associated by the fusion of technologies up to Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with its multitude of communicating sensors and actuators new demands arise. In particular, the driving forces of this development, mobility and flexibility, are affecting today's networks. However, it is precisely these wireless solutions, as enabler for this advancement, that create new attack vectors and cyber-security threats. Furthermore, many cryptographic procedures, intended to secure the networks, require additional overhead, which is limiting the transmission bandwidth and speed as well. For this reason, new and efficient solutions must be developed and applied, in order to secure the existing, as well as the future, industrial communication networks. This work proposes a conceptual approach, consisting of a combination of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Physical Layer Security (PhySec) to satisfy the network security requirements. Use cases are explained that demonstrate the appropriateness of the approach and it is shown that this is a easy to use and resource efficient, but nevertheless sound and secure approach. |
| DOI | 10.1109/NEXTCOMP.2019.8883600 |
| Citation Key | lipps_securing_2019 |
Securing Industrial Wireless Networks: Enhancing SDN with PhySec