RYU SDN Controller Testbed for Performance Testing of Source Address Validation Techniques

SDN is a newly emerged network technology and its advantages are rapidly increasing its usages in enterprise networks. Normally, data packets in networks are forwarded based on destination address without source host address validation. The attackers may use this gap and perform various types of attacks to disturb the operations of network and related services. Various Source Address Validation (SAV) Techniques for non SDN environment have been proposed by researches but there are very few SAV techniques for SDN. We propose a RYU SDN Controller based testbed for testing of performance and ease development of new SAV techniques for SDN environment. SIPAV-SDN SAV technique has been implemented on testbed and performance checked. Experiment results have shown that proposed testbed successfully worked as per requirement of SAV technique. This may be used for testing of already proposed SAV techniques. This also provides a low cost SDN testbed for development of new SAV approaches, other network services and applications.