Ali, Ala’a Alsheikh, McGarry, Kenneth, Baglee, David and Eliot, Neil (2025) Dynamic ARP Cache Poisoning Detection and Enhanced Prevention in Virtual Networks Using SDN and Real-Time Traffic Analysis with Scapy. In: UNSPECIFIED Springer. (In Press)
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This study presents an advanced detection and mitigation framework against ARP spoofing—a major threat exploiting authentication gaps in the ARP protocol. Leveraging Scapy integrated with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies, including the Ryu controller and Open vSwitch, the research introduces a custom ARP cache poisoning script that covertly reroutes network traffic to an attacker-controlled node with precision and control. Deployed in a virtualized environment, the script was evaluated against tools like Ettercap and Bettercap, achieving superior manipulation capabilities and a 100% ARP table compromise rate. The tailored SDN-based detection tool further demonstrated impressive performance, identifying 98.33% of spoofing activities with a low detection latency of 0.024 seconds and minimal CPU usage, ensuring network efficiency. This research sets a new benchmark in ARP spoofing mitigation and paves the way for future enhancements such as ARP table pre-population and broader protocol support, strengthening defenses in virtualized environments.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ARP Spoofing Detection, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Scapy, ARP Cache Poisoning, |
| Depositing User: | Kenneth McGarry |
| URI: | https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/19244 |
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