Reports from State Key Laboratory Describe Recent Advances in Blockchain Technology (A Distributed Security SDN Cluster Architecture for Smart Grid Based on Blockchain Technology)

2021 DEC 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Tech Daily News -- New research on blockchain technology is the subject of a new report. According to news reporting out of the State Key Laboratory by NewsRx editors, research stated, “This paper proposes a smart grid distributed security architecture based on blockchain technology and SDN cluster structure, referred to as ClusterBlock model, which combines the advantages of two emerging technologies, blockchain and SDN.”

Funders for this research include (State Grid Corporation of China) Science and Technology Project.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from State Key Laboratory: “The blockchain technology allows for distributed peer-to-peer networks, where the network can ensure the trusted interaction of untrusted nodes in the network. At the same time, this article adopts the design of an SDN controller distributed cluster to avoid single point of failure and balance the load between equipment and the controller. A cluster head was selected in each SDN cluster, and it was used as a blockchain node to construct an SDN cluster head blockchain. By combining blockchain technology, the security and privacy of the SDN communication network can be enhanced. At the same time, this paper designs a distributed control strategy and network attack detection algorithm based on blockchain consensus and introduces the Jaccard similarity coefficient to detect the network attacks. Finally, this paper evaluates the ClusterBlock model and the existing model based on the OpenFlow protocol through simulation experiments and compares the security performance.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The evaluation results show that the ClusterBlock model has more stable bandwidth and stronger security performance in the face of DDoS attacks of the same scale.”

For more information on this research see: A Distributed Security SDN Cluster Architecture for Smart Grid Based on Blockchain Technology. Security and Communication Networks, 2021,2021. (Security and Communication Networks - https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/). The publisher for Security and Communication Networks is Hindawi-Wiley.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9495093.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Ao Xiong, State Key Laboratory of Networking & Switching Technology.

(Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.)