AuthorsS. Mazumdar and T. Dreibholz
TitleTowards a Privacy Preserving Data Flow Control via Packet Header Marking
AfilliationCommunication Systems
Project(s)NorNet, Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, The Center for Resilient Networks and Applications, GAIA
StatusPublished
Publication TypeProceedings, refereed
Year of Publication2022
Conference NameProceedings of the 24th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPCC)
PublisherIEEE
Place PublishedChengdu, Sichuan/People's Republic of China
KeywordsCloud, Data, Fog, P4, Packets, Privacy, Routing
Abstract

{Computing infrastructure is becoming ubiquitous thanks to the advancement in computing and the network domain. Reliable network communication is essential to offer good quality services, but it is not trivial. There are privacy concerns. Metadata may leak user information even if traffic is encrypted. Some countries have data privacy preserving-related regulations, but end-users cannot control through which path, networks, and hardware their data packets should travel. Even worse, the user cannot declare their privacy preferences. This paper presents an approach to tackle such privacy issues through data privacy-aware routing. The user can specify their preferences for packet routing using marking and filtering. Routing can work according to such specifications. It is implemented by P4, allowing a vendor-independent realisation with standard off-the-shelf hardware and open-source software components. We presented the initial experimental results of a proof-of-concept run on a unified cloud/fog research testbed.}

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