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The application of the concept of software-defined networks (SDN) has, on the one hand, led to the simplification and reduction of switches price, and on the other hand, has created a significant number of problems related to the security of the SDN network. In several studies was noted that these problems are related to the lack of flexibility and programmability of the data plane, which is likely first to suffer potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. One possible way to overcome this problem is to increase the flexibility of the data plane by increasing the depth of programmability of the packet-switching nodes below the level of flow table management. Therefore, this paper investigates the opportunity of using the architecture of deeply programmable packet-switching nodes (DPPSN) in the implementation of a firewall. Then, an architectural model of the firewall based on a hybrid FPGA/CPU data plane architecture has been proposed and implemented. Realized firewall supports three models of DoS attacks mitigation: DoS traffic filtering on the output interface, DoS traffic filtering on the input interface, and DoS attack redirection to the honeypot. Experimental evaluation of the implemented firewall has shown that DoS traffic filtering at the input interface is the best strategy for DoS attack mitigation, which justified the application of the concept of deep network programmability.

Large scale applications in data centers are composed of computers connected with a network. Traditional network switches cannot be flexibly controlled. Then, application developer cannot optimize network elements' behavior for improving application performance. On the other hand, Deeply Programmable Network (DPN) switches can completely analyze packet payloads and be profoundly programmed. In this paper, we focus on processing a part of application functions in network elements for improving application performance based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), i.e. analyzing packet payload, using DPN switches. We assume some applications as targets and implement some of functions of applications in network switches. We then present the comparison of performances with and without out method, and show that our method can significantly increase application performance.