An adaptive detection and prevention architecture for unsafe traffic in SDN enabled mobile networks

The forthcoming 5G cloud networks will utilize software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to provide new services. However, applying these technologies introduce new threats to network. To detect the security attacks and malicious traffic both on end user and cloudified mobile network, we apply centralized monitoring and combine dynamicity and programmability of SDN, traffic filtering capabilities of IDS and clustering mechanisms for load balancing. We discuss and demonstrate an adaptive detection and prevention architecture for SDN enabled mobile networks.