Projects and Labs - Networking & Cybersecurity

Active Research Projects and Labs

ANT (Analysis of Network Traffic) (supported by NSF and DHS and DARPA, started in 2000)
AmLight Frontier (AmLight: The Next Frontier Towards Discovery in the Americas and Africa) (supported by NSF, started in 2025)
BRIPOD (CICI: TCR: Building a more Resilient IPv6 from Passive Outage Detection (BRIPOD)) (supported by NSF, started in 2025)
CMCM (Compliance Monitor for Consent Decree of the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger) (supported by CPUC, started in 2025)
DNSSEC-STATS (DNSSEC and DANE measurement project) (supported by ICANN, started in 2017)
LOCALROOT (LOCALROOT - serve yourself the root zone) (supported by ICANN, started in 2017)
Rubin Obs. Ops. (Vera C. Rubin Observatory International Network Operations) (supported by NSF DOE AURA, started in 2022)
SPHERE (Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation) (supported by NSF, started in 2023)
SRAII (REU Site: SRAII: Safe and Reliable AI and the Internet) (supported by NSF, started in 2023)
STEEL (Security Research Lab) (supported by NSF, started in 2012)
TEPPIT (TEPPIT: TEstbed for Privacy-PreservIng Technologies for Data Sharing and Analysis) (supported by NSF, started in 2025)

DIINER (DNS, Identity, and Internet Naming for Experimentation and Research) (supported by NSF, started in 2019, completed in 2024)
EIEIO (Event Identification and Evaluation of Internet Outages) (supported by NSF, started in 2020, completed in 2024)
EnhEpi (Collaborative Research: NCS: FO: Enhancing Episodic Memory through Real-world Integration of Brain Recording and Stimulation with Semantic Alignment of Human and IoT) (supported by NSF, started in 2021, completed in 2024)
STRATA (SII-NRDZ: STRATA - STudy of INL for RAdio naTional fAcility) (supported by NSF, started in 2022, completed in 2024)
SURF-I (REU Site: SURF-I: Safe, Usable, Resilient and Fair Internet) (supported by NSF, started in 2021, completed in 2024)

ARCEE (Assured Replaceable Components Enabling Extension-of-Life (ARCEE)) (supported by AFOSR, started in 2022, completed in 2023)
ASPIRE (Collaborative Research: SII-NRDZ: ASPIRE: Advanced SPectrum Initiative for Research and Experimentation) (supported by NSF, started in 2022, completed in 2023)
DANUBE (DANUBE) (supported by DARPA, started in 2022, completed in 2023)
ModDeter (Modernizing DeterLab Education Support and Growing and Diversifying Education User Base) (supported by NSF, started in 2022, completed in 2023)
SACHET (Social Analysis of Code to counter Human Engineering Threats) (started in 2021, completed in 2023)
SAFED-ASP (Safe And Flexible Experimental Dataset Access and Sharing--Planning) (supported by NSF, started in 2022, completed in 2023)
SEARCCH (Sharing Expertise and Artifacts for Reuse through Cybersecurity Community Hub) (supported by NSF, started in 2019, completed in 2023)

Apropos (Accurate and Precise Recongition of Obsecured Payloads in Operational Systems) (supported by DARPA, started in 2020, completed in 2022)
GAWSEED (Global Analysis of Weak Signals for Enterprise Event Detection) (supported by DARPA, started in 2018, completed in 2022)
MINCEQ (Measuring the Internet during Novel Coronavirus to Evaluate Quarantine) (supported by NSF, started in 2020, completed in 2022)
Pharos (SearchLight Test and Evaluation on the Merge Testbed) (supported by DARPA, started in 2020, completed in 2022)

DDIDD (DDoS Defense in Depth for DNS) (supported by NSF, started in 2017, completed in 2021)
PAADDOS (Plannning for Anycast as Anti-DDoS) (supported by DHS and NWO, started in 2018, completed in 2021)
SABRES (Secure, Adaptive, roBust, Resilient, and Efficient Slices (SABRES)) (supported by DARPA, started in 2020, completed in 2021)

DIVOICE (Detecting, Interpreting, and Validating from Outside, In, and Control, Disruptive Events) (supported by DHS, started in 2018, completed in 2020)
DUOI (Detecting and Understanding Outages in the Internet) (supported by DHS, started in 2016, completed in 2020)
LACANIC (Los Angeles/Colorado Application and Network Information Community) (supported by DHS, started in 2018, completed in 2020)

IIOVADR (Interactive Internet Outage Visualization to Assess Disaster Recovery) (supported by NSF, started in 2018, completed in 2019)
NIPET (Naming and Internet Protocol Experimentation Testbed) (supported by ISI and NSF, started in 2012, completed in 2019)

EARR (Enabling Anycast in the Research Root-2016) (supported by DHS, started in 2017, completed in 2018)
Retro-Future Bridge (Retro-Future Bridge and Outages) (supported by DHS, started in 2016, completed in 2018)

LACREND (Los Angeles/Colorado Research Exchange for Network Data) (supported by DHS, started in 2012, completed in 2017)

PINEST (Planning for Identity and Naming Experimentation Shared Testbed) (supported by ISI and NSF, started in 2015, completed in 2016)
Retro-Future (Retro-Future) (supported by DHS, started in 2012, completed in 2016)
T-DNS (T-DNS) (supported by Verisign, started in 2013, completed in 2016)

CEF (Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future) (supported by NSF, started in 2013, completed in 2015)

MEGA (Modern Graph Analysis for Dynamic Networks) (supported by DARPA, started in 2012, completed in 2014)

CAIRN (Collaborative Advanced Internet Research Network) (supported by DARPA, started in 1996, completed in 1999)
MINT-1998 (Multicast InterNet Test-bed) (supported by NSF, started in 1998, completed in 1999)
RAISE (Rational ATM -- Internet SuitE (RAISE) Project) (started in 1997, completed in 1999)
RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) (supported by DARPA, started in 1996, completed in 1999)

Atomic2 (Atomic2) (supported by DARPA, started in 1995, completed in 1998)
Netstation (Netstation Project) (supported by DARPA, started in 1991, completed in 1998)
TNT (Teranode Networking Technology) (supported by DARPA, started in 1995, completed in 1998)