We present in this thesis a new structure that incorporates SDN with Vanets, and we make a meticulous study of routing mechanisms and their effects on security aspects. We also present a new security system that depends on public key infrastructure,
and finally we demonstrate how to benefit from SDN in facing several security attacks and preaches, which are common in traditional Vanets, through number of security algorithms which allow deploying intrusion detection systems as a step towards self-healing and self-configuration system.
Current traditional IP networks start to be complex as the demands of the users are ever-growing. Software Defined Network (SDN) is a new paradigm to ease the management of the network and make the network programmable by decoupling the control plane
and forwarding plane (such as switch and router). A centralized controller is used to manage the control plane, and it interacts with the forwarding plane using a standardized OpenFlow protocol. However, many controllers are used recently such as POX, Ryu, ONOS, and OpenDaylight. The important question is which is the best controller to use in our network and fits our network’s goals? To answer this question, a decision-making method is proposed in this paper. First, four SDN controllers are selected, and five criteria are analyzed to collect these controllers’ properties. Then a Multi-Criteria Decision Making method named TOPSIS is used to rank the controllers and choose the best one. By applying this method, a comparative study is done to evaluate the four controllers in an environment of LAN topology, and “Ryu” controller is selected as the best one based on our criteria.
الشبكات المعرفة برمجيا SDN هي عبارة عن بنية شبكية جديدة توفر التحكم المركزي بكامل الشبكة. يعمل هذا المتحكم كنظام تشغيل يقوم بإرسال التعليمات وتطبيق التغييرات من خلال الواجهات التخاطبية بينه وبين الأجهزة المسؤولة عنها ويدعى بالمتحكم.
