OpenFlow Discovery Protocol (OFDP) is the de-facto protocol used by OpenFlow controllers to discover the underlying topology. In this paper, we show that OFDP has some serious security, efficiency and functionality limitations that make it non suitable for production deployments. Instead, we briefly introduce sOFTD, a new discovery protocol with a built-in security characteristics and which is more efficient than traditional OFDP.
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@article{arxiv.1705.00706,
title = {Limitations of OpenFlow Topology Discovery Protocol},
author = {Abdelhadi Azzouni and Nguyen Thi Mai Trang and Raouf Boutaba and Guy Pujolle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00706},
year = {2017}
}
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The peer reviewed version can be found here (to be published soon)