Securing all-optical networks

Rejeb, R.; Pavlosoglou, I.; Leeson, Mark S.; Green, R.J.

doi:10.1109/icton.2003.1264585

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“…Although transparency, in AONs, offers many advantages for high rate communications, it introduces new vulnerabilities to network security, which do not exist in traditional networks [1,3,4,[6][7][8][9]11,12]. Actually, the absence of signal interpretation and regeneration within the network allows for transmission impairments (crosstalk, power increase, etc.)…”

Section: A Transparency Featurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although they offer many advantages for high data rate communications, AONs come with new challenges in terms of network security that do not exist in traditional communication networks [1,3,[6][7][8][9]11,12]. In particular, AON components have different accessibility and vulnerabilities from electronic components.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since even short failures can cause large amounts of data to be lost, the need for securing and protecting AONs has become increasingly significant [1,3,8,9,11,12]. Different studies have addressed the security issues in the development of the all-optical networking technology.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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All-Optical Networks: Security Issues Analysis

Lazzez¹

2015

J. Opt. Commun. Netw.

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All-optical networks (AONs) are emerging as a promising technology for future telecommunication and data networks. AONs provide huge transmission capacities and are mainly characterized by their transparency to the transmitted traffic. The characteristics of AONs are desirable in many respects, but they give rise to a new set of challenging issues in terms of network security that do not exist in traditional communication networks. The aim of this paper is to present a deep analysis of the security issues of AONs that distinguish them from traditional communication networks. In particular, we focus on the physical security aspect that differs significantly from that in electro-optic and electronic networks and that directly affects the physical infrastructure of AONs. The paper provides an analysis of the infrastructure vulnerabilities of AONs and shows how they can be exploited to perform attacks to the proper functioning of the network. Furthermore, it describes a set of scenarios that may be used to perform a service disruption or a tapping attack on an AON. Finally, it investigates the main challenging issues facing the efficient management of security attacks in AONs and presents a brief overview of the main proposed schemes for attack management in AONs.

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Section: A Transparency Featurementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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All-Optical Networks: Security Issues Analysis

Lazzez¹

2015

J. Opt. Commun. Netw.

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“…Now if the crosstalk from only λ 21 is considered, then the worst case crosstalk power coming from λ 21 in the signal at λ 11 is given by expression (8). …”

Section: 21analytical Model For Crosstalk In Optical Cross-connecmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To foil the in-band and out-of-band jamming attacks in AON, some preventive countermeasures have been proposed in [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] and [10] which are primarily focused on detection and attack localization, i.e., reactive approach. Three types of preventive countermeasure categories are primarily focused in [1]: 1) incorporating band limiting filters to thwart signals outside certain band to prevent out-of-band gain competition and reducing vulnerabilities intrinsic to hardware, 2) providing anti-jamming transmission schemes such as CDMA or TDMA that are hardened for anti-jamming and anti-tapping measures and 3) protocols and architecture designs adapted to AONs, such as avoiding compromised link for sensitive communications.…”

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Real Time Securing of All-Optical Networks Against Security Attacks at the Physical Level

Rahman¹,

Arozullah²

2013

IJNSA

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Design and Simulation of Physical Layer Security for Next Generation Intelligent Optical Networks

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Prince²,

Kumari³

2022

Wireless Pers Commun

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With the latest technological advancements and attractive features of next generation intelligent optical networks such as high bandwidth, low power consumption, and low transmission loss, etc., they have been considered as most viable solution to satisfy promptly growing bandwidth demands. However, main optical network components bring forth a set of security challenges and reliability issues, accompanied by new vulnerabilities within the network. This paper proposes a new design for an optical encryption and decryption method for enhancing optical network security using p-i-n photodiode which generates Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) as a shot noise fluctuations and wavelength converter based design using Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) based XOR gate which utilizes Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM). The system performance based on Bit Error Rate (BER) and Q factor are analyzed at different data rates for different link lengths up to 100 km using OptiSystem. It is observed that error free transmission with a BER of 10-12 is achieved a data rate of 10Gbps for a link length of only 30 Km for the system with PIN photodiode's shot noise being used for PRBS sequence generation. However, wavelength conversion based system enables transmission of signal at 10Gbps signal up to a link length of 90Km.

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Securing all-optical networks

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

All-Optical Networks: Security Issues Analysis

All-Optical Networks: Security Issues Analysis

Real Time Securing of All-Optical Networks Against Security Attacks at the Physical Level

Design and Simulation of Physical Layer Security for Next Generation Intelligent Optical Networks

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