Use of software-defined network capabilities to increase the security at the Edge Computing on a heterogeneous environment of IoT devices

Abstract

There’s an enormous amount of IoT devices connected to the internet without following a security standard which makes it a real threat for the consumers. All of the sensors and devices that are currently tracking steps, speed, movement, heart rate, location, temperature, etc. is sensitive data that could be taken by malicious agents or corporations for invasion of privacy to the customers. This work presents a way of using some of the Software Defined Networks capabilities to improve the privacy, detect and mitigate the most common attacks that are Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) at the Edge Computing through some simple algorithms which won’t affect application performance under the current network.