Ricerc@Sapienza

The Internet and how we use it changed completely since its inception. Its current architecture based on a host-to-host design is not suitable for today's heavy use of multimedia files, where the same content is accessed and consumed by multiple consumers. Moreover, the proprietary and static nature of network devices such as routers heavily limits the achievable network performance, as well as reducing interoperability. These limitations are exacerbated by the rise of the Internet of Things, which is projected to introduce billions of new, always connected devices constantly generating data.
In order to make up for these shortcomings, several bodies issued funding for research on new Internet architectures, such as the NSF Future Internet Architectures (FIA) project. In recent years, two new architectures in particular received widespread acceptance: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Information-Centric Networking (ICN). However, despite their growing popularity and industrial support, the security of these architectures is still not well tested and recent research showed they both present potentially serious security and privacy flaws. In order for these alternative architectures to receive widespread adoption in real network deployments, additional research in their security is required.