A novel framework for software defined based secure storage systems

The Software Defined Systems (SDSys) paradigm has been introduced recently as a solution to reduce the overhead in the control and management operations of complex computing systems and to maintain a high level of security and protection. The main concept behind this technology is around isolating the data plane from the control plane. Building a Software Defined System in a real life environment is considered an expensive solution and may have a lot of risks. Thus, there is a need to simulate such systems before the real-life implementation and deployment. In this paper we present a novel experimental framework as a virtualized testbed environment for software defined based secure storage systems. Its also covers some related issues for large scale data storage and sharing such as deduplication. This work builds on the Mininet simulator, where its core components, the host, switch and the controller, are customized to build the proposed experimental simulation framework. The developed emulator, will not only support the development and testing of SD-based secure storage solutions, it will also serve as an experimentation tool for researchers and for benchmarking purposes. The developed simulator/emulator could also be used as an educational tool to train students and novice researchers.