Concerning the problem that the network access control of Virtual Machines (VM) in the cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms, a method of communication access control for VM in IaaS platforms was proposed. The method based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) was realized to customize the communication access control rules from Layer 2 to Layer 4. The experimental results show that the method can manage communication access permissions of tenants' VM flexibly, and ensure the security of tenants' network.
The virtual machines in cloud computing platform exchange data in the shared memory of physical machine. In view of the problem that the traffic cannot be captured and detected in firewall or other security components, the OpenFlow technology was analyzed, and a traffic redirection method based on OpenFlow was presented. To control traffic forwarding process and redirect it to security components, the method provided network connection for virtual machines with OpenFlow controller and virtual switches instead of physical switches, and built a traffic detection system composed of four modules including virtual switch, control unit, intrusion detection and system configuration management. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can realize traffic redirection and the subsequent detection processing, and the system can provide switch-level and host-level control granularity. It also solves traffic detection problem under cloud computing environment in traditional scene by traffic redirection, and provides great expansion of the traffic processing based on OpenFlow.