Physical security considerations in all-optical networks

Douglas Marquis; Muriel Medard; Richard A. Barry; Steven G. Finn

doi:10.1117/12.300896

1 February 1998 Physical security considerations in all-optical networks

Douglas Marquis, Muriel Medard, Richard A. Barry, Steven G. Finn

Proceedings Volume 3228, Multimedia Networks: Security, Displays, Terminals, and Gateways; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.300896
Event: Voice, Video, and Data Communications, 1997, Dallas, TX, United States

Abstract

All-optical systems are a promising technology for terabit- per-second fiber-optic communication networks. The transmission, switching and routing characteristics of all- optical networks that enable these high rates are intrinsically different from their electro-optic counterparts, particularly when considered with respect to vulnerability to service denial attacks. The characteristics of both components and architecture of all-optical networks appear to have new and little studied security vulnerabilities. Along with those vulnerabilities are a new set of countermeasures which are also different from the electro-optic scenario. This paper addresses the vulnerabilities of all-optical networks to attacks from both inside and outside the network, and present some preliminary results on countermeasures. This work concentrates on physical security differences between all-optical networks and more conventional electro-optic networks with a goal of understanding the differences in attack mechanisms. These difference suggest new countermeasures that may significantly reduce the infrastructure vulnerability of all-optical networks. The work is timely in that consideration of the physical security of all-optical networks in a way that will be difficult to match using post-deployment techniques.

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Douglas Marquis, Muriel Medard, Richard A. Barry, and Steven G. Finn "Physical security considerations in all-optical networks", Proc. SPIE 3228, Multimedia Networks: Security, Displays, Terminals, and Gateways, (1 February 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.300896

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