Universal Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for SDN-NFV secured execution

A description of the idea is depicted in the co-written publication (TAGES company and FAU university) you can get on ACM service at https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3233256. This publication is fresh and was submitted for ARES Hamburg August 2018. The idea is to take profit of the superior security garanties offered by TEE, offered by Intel and AMD and whose TEE-enabled processors will be omnipresent in data centre servers. Our special contribution is to ensure that the resulting protected NFV software will be able to enable and to use both types of TEE. The idea is to break today's deadlock where both technologies (namely, Intel SGX and AMD SEV) are not compatible. We believe that the idea will contribute to boost the adoption of TEE in the field of future telecom networks and prevent so-called introspection attacks by malicious operators or kernels at data centres. The publication gives hints on how we can bridge both technologies and on the key areas of concerns and interests (including software performance) that will be adressed during the project.