ENHANCING CLOUD COMPUTING WITH EBPF POWERED SDN FOR SECURE AND SCALABLE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION

Abstract

Since cloud computing provides scalable and on-demand resources, it has transformed modern IT infrastructure.
Nevertheless, high latency, security vulnerabilities and scalability limitations are significant challenges that
conventional SDN-based cloud infrastructures have to contend with. By integrating eBPF technology to perform
packet processing efficiently dynamic threat control and scalable resource management, this paper proposes an
eBPF-based SDN architecture to enhance cloud network virtualization. This proposed solution enhances network
flow for effortless scalability with less resource overhead provides security through deep packet inspection and
reduces network latency through fewer control plane interactions. The findings substantiate that the security and
traffic management mechanisms of eBPF heavily enhance cloud infrastructure resilience and adaptability.
Performance tests and large-scale simulations demonstrate that eBPF-SDN improves packet processing latency
by 40 percent, threat detection accuracy by 35 percent and network throughput by 50 percent compared to
conventional SDN architectures. This paper presents a new hybridized method ensuring high performance,
security and scalability to next-generation cloud computing scenarios.