A Security-aware Software-defined IoT Network Architecture

With the improvement of people’s living standards, more and more network users access the network, including a large number of infrastructure, these devices constitute the Internet of things(IoT). With the rapid expansion of devices in the IoT, the data transmission between the IoT has become more complex, and the security issues are facing greater challenges. SDN as a mature network architecture, its security has been affirmed by the industry, it separates the data layer from the control layer, thus greatly improving the security of the network. In this paper, we apply the SDN to the IoT, and propose a IoT network architecture based on SDN. In this architecture, we not only make use of the security features of SDN, but also deploy different security modules in each layer of SDN to integrate, analyze and plan various data through the IoT, which undoubtedly improves the security performance of the network. In the end, we give a comprehensive introduction to the system and verify its performance.