Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation
Impact
HOW SHOULD I CITE SPHERE?
If you use SPHERE in your research and publish results based on that work, we would appreciate a citation to SPHERE. The best reference is:
J. Mirkovic et al., "Building SPHERE: A Public Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Cybersecurity Experimentation," 2026 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2026, to appear.
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author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Kline, Erik and Choffnes, David and Dubois, Daniel J. and Garcia, Luis and Balenson, David and
Regalado, Alba and Benzel, Terry and Tran, Christopher and Thurlow, Lincoln and Pradkin, Yuri and Lawler, Geoff and
Barnes, Joseph and Aldana, Kevin and Pandya, Darsh},
booktitle={2026 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)},
title={Building SPHERE: A Public Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Cybersecurity Experimentation},
year={2026},
address={Los Angeles, CA, USA},
note={To appear}
}
author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Kline, Erik and Choffnes, David and Dubois, Daniel J. and Garcia, Luis and Balenson, David and
Regalado, Alba and Benzel, Terry and Tran, Christopher and Thurlow, Lincoln and Pradkin, Yuri and Lawler, Geoff and
Barnes, Joseph and Aldana, Kevin and Pandya, Darsh},
booktitle={2026 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)},
title={Building SPHERE: A Public Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Cybersecurity Experimentation},
year={2026},
address={Los Angeles, CA, USA},
note={To appear}
}
REPORT YOUR PUBLICATION: To help us document SPHERE’s impact, support discovery of SPHERE-enabled research, and report outcomes to our sponsors, we also invite authors to let us know about publications that used the SPHERE research infrastructure. If you have published a conference paper, journal article, technical report, thesis, or similar scholarly output that relied on SPHERE, please submit one publication per entry using the following form: https://forms.gle/1XHgsBGQViVJTyvE6.
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SPHERE USER PUBLICATIONS
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| Venue | Date | Citation |
| ICMLA | November 2026 | S. U. Singh, V. Sai Prathyush Turaga and A. S. Namin, PersuasiveAgent: An Agentic Social Engineering Evaluation Framework to Assess Information Leakage of LLM-based Agents, 2026 25th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Rochester, MI, USA, 2026, pp. 1015-1020, doi: 10.1109/ICMLA69890.2026.00153. |
| ACM SoCC | November 2026 | Alexander Wolosewicz, Raffay Atiq, Nishanth Shyamkumar, Van Anderson, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, and Nik Sultana. Crinkle: Tenant-Driven Debugging on Cloud Testbeds. To appear in Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC '26), 2026. |
| ACM SIGCOMM | August 2026 | Arvin Ghavidel, Pooria Namyar, Nikolai Matni, Walter Willinger, and Ramesh Govindan. 2026. Near-optimal Online Traffic Engineering. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2026 Conference (SIGCOMM '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1024–1045. https://doi.org/10.1145/3789240.3829123 |
| IEEE Access |
May 2026 | IEEE Access: V. S. P. Turaga et al., ACT: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding and Controlling Trustworthiness in Controllable AI, in IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 84016-84066, 2026, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3694817 |
| arXiv | May 2026 | Arvin Ghavidel, Pooria Namyar, Nikolai Matni, Walter Willinger, and Ramesh Govindan. 2026. Near-optimal Online Traffic Engineering. arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16187. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16187 |
| NDSS | February 2026 | Jie Kong, Damon James, Hemi Leibowitz, Ewa Syta and Amir Herzberg, CTng: Secure Certificate and Revocation Transparency, Networking and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2026. |
| ACM SIGCOMM | 2025 | Pooria Namyar, Arvin Ghavidel, Mingyang Zhang, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Srivatsan Ravi, Chao Wang, and Ramesh Govindan. ZENITH: Towards A Formally Verified Highly-Available Control Plane. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference, 2025. doi: 10.1145/3718958.3750533 |
| TELFOR | 2025 | Ilija Bašičević, Milan Žeželj, Milos Jovanović, Filip Parag, Miroslav Popović and Mirko Sužnjević, Emulation of Slowloris Attack, 2025 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/TELFOR67910.2025.11314407. |
| Eurosys | 2025 | Pasindu Tennage, Shailesh Mishra, Alberto Sonnino, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic and Bryan Ford, Poster: ConsenStress: A Framework to Torture Test Consensus Protocols, Eurosys 2025. |
| IEEE S&P | May 2025 | Sam DeLaughter and Karen Sollins, SYN Proof-of- Work: Improving Volumetric DoS Resilience in TCP, 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025, pp. 1877-1890, doi: 10.1109/SP61157.2025.00166 |
| SPHERE USER DISSERTATION AND THESIS | ||
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| Venue | Date | Citation |
| University of Minnesota Thesis | December 2025 | Eric Nieters, Improving and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Learning in Cybersecurity Pedagogy, University of Minnesota, 2025. |
| MIT Thesis | September 2025 | Chukwuemekalum Echezona, Proof-of-Work Based Mitigation of Real Time Video DDoS Attacks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2025. |
| SPHERE TEAM PUBLICATIONS | ||
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| Venue | Date | Citation |
| CSET' 26 | December 2026 | T. Yoon, Y. Zheng, and L. Thurlow, Privacy Preserving Distributed Virtual Network Embedding, To appear in Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '26), Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 2026. |
| USENIX VehicleSec | August 2026 | Chandrima Ghatak, Christopher Tran, Rik Chatterjee, David Balenson, Jelena Mirkovic, and Jeremy Daily, Demo: SPHERE-CAN: Enabling Reproducible Automotive Network Security Experimentation, 2026 USENIX VehicleSec Conference, 2026. |
| ACSAC | December 2026 | J. Mirkovic, et al., Building SPHERE: A Public Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Cybersecurity Experimentation, To appear in 2026 IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2026. |
| ACM REP | July 2026 | Jelena Mirkovic, Qishen Sam Liang, and David Balenson, Measuring Ease of Reuse for Security Research Artifacts with Results-Reproduced Badges, To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, doi: 10.1145/3820002.3828598. |
| MetaCRiSP | May 2026 | Jelena Mirkovic, David Balenson, Position Paper: Living Artifacts: Enabling Vertical Progress In Cybersecurity Research, 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2026, pp. 293-299, doi: 10.1109/SPW72489.2026.00036. |
| ICCPS | May 2025 | Luis Garcia, Jelena Mirkovic, David Balenson, Erik Kline, Yuri Pradkin, David Choffnes, Daniel Dubois, Terry Benzel, Srivatsan Ravi, Joseph Barnes, Geoff Lawler, Chris Tran, and Alba Regalado, Poster: SPHERE CPS Enclave: A Reconfigurable Testbed for Industrial Control System Security Experimentation, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2025. |
| USENIX ;login: Online | December 2024 | Jelena Mirkovic, Brian Kocoloski, David Balenson, Enabling Reproducibility through the SPHERE Research Infrastructure,(opens in new tab) USENIX ;login: magazine, Dec. 2024. (opens in new tab) |