{"id":1568,"date":"2026-11-07T01:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isi.edu\/proxy-sphere\/?page_id=1568"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T22:16:40","slug":"impact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.isi.edu\/proxy-sphere\/impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<ul role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li role=\"presentation\">\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-0\" data-index=\"0\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-0\">\n\t\t\t\tPUBLICATIONS\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" data-index=\"0\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPUBLICATIONS\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n<h3>HOW SHOULD I CITE SPHERE?<\/h3>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p>J. Mirkovic\u00a0et al., &#8220;Building SPHERE: A Public Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Cybersecurity Experimentation,&#8221;\u00a02026 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2026, to appear.<\/p>\n@INPROCEEDINGS{Mirkovic2026SPHERE,<br \/>\nauthor={Mirkovic, Jelena and Kline, Erik and Choffnes, David and Dubois, Daniel J. and Garcia, Luis and Balenson, David and<br \/>\nRegalado, Alba and Benzel, Terry and Tran, Christopher and Thurlow, Lincoln and Pradkin, Yuri and Lawler, Geoff and<br \/>\nBarnes, Joseph and Aldana, Kevin and Pandya, Darsh},<br \/>\nbooktitle={2026 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)},<br \/>\ntitle={Building SPHERE: A Public Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Cybersecurity Experimentation},<br \/>\nyear={2026},<br \/>\naddress={Los Angeles, CA, USA},<br \/>\nnote={To appear}<br \/>\n}\n<strong>REPORT YOUR PUBLICATION:<\/strong> To help us document SPHERE&#8217;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: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/1XHgsBGQViVJTyvE6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/1XHgsBGQViVJTyvE6<\/a>.\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">\n<strong>SPHERE USER PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><br \/>\n(opens in new tab\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Venue<\/th>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Citation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>ICMLA<\/td>\n<td>November 2026<\/td>\n<td>S. U. Singh, V. Sai Prathyush Turaga and A. S. Namin, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ICMLA69890.2026.00153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PersuasiveAgent: An Agentic Social Engineering Evaluation Framework to Assess Information Leakage of LLM-based Agents<\/a>, 2026 25th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Rochester, MI, USA, 2026, pp. 1015-1020, doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ICMLA69890.2026.00153\">10.1109\/ICMLA69890.2026.00153<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACM SoCC<\/td>\n<td>November 2026<\/td>\n<td>Alexander Wolosewicz, Raffay Atiq, Nishanth Shyamkumar, Van Anderson, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, and Nik Sultana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.iit.edu\/~nsultana1\/files\/SoCC_2026_Crinkle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crinkle: Tenant-Driven Debugging on Cloud Testbeds<\/a>. To appear in Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC &#8217;26), 2026.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACM SIGCOMM<\/td>\n<td>August 2026<\/td>\n<td>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 &#8217;26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1024-1045. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3789240.3829123\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3789240.3829123<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>IEEE<br \/>\nAccess<\/td>\n<td>May 2026<\/td>\n<td>IEEE Access: V. S. P. Turaga et al., <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ACCESS.2026.3694817\">ACT: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding and Controlling Trustworthiness in Controllable AI<\/a>, in IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 84016-84066, 2026, doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ACCESS.2026.3694817\">10.1109\/ACCESS.2026.3694817<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>arXiv<\/td>\n<td>May 2026<\/td>\n<td>Arvin Ghavidel, Pooria Namyar, Nikolai Matni, Walter Willinger, and Ramesh Govindan. 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2605.16187\">Near-optimal Online Traffic Engineering<\/a>. arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16187. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2605.16187\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2605.16187<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NDSS<\/td>\n<td>February 2026<\/td>\n<td>Jie Kong, Damon James, Hemi Leibowitz, Ewa Syta and Amir Herzberg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndss-symposium.org\/ndss-paper\/ctng-secure-certificate-and-revocation-transparency\/\">CTng: Secure Certificate and Revocation Transparency<\/a>, Networking and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2026.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACM SIGCOMM<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<td>Pooria Namyar, Arvin Ghavidel, Mingyang Zhang, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Srivatsan Ravi, Chao Wang, and Ramesh Govindan. <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3718958.3750533\">ZENITH: Towards A Formally Verified Highly-Available Control Plane<\/a>. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference, 2025. doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3718958.3750533\">10.1145\/3718958.3750533<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TELFOR<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<td>Ilija Ba\u0161i\u010devi\u0107, Milan \u017de\u017eelj, Milos Jovanovi\u0107, Filip Parag, Miroslav Popovi\u0107 and Mirko Su\u017enjevi\u0107, <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11314407\">Emulation of Slowloris Attack<\/a>, 2025 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109\/TELFOR67910.2025.11314407.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurosys<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<td>Pasindu Tennage, Shailesh Mishra, Alberto Sonnino, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic and Bryan Ford, <a href=\"https:\/\/2025.eurosys.org\/posters\/eurosys25posters-paper47.pdf\">Poster: ConsenStress: A Framework to Torture Test Consensus Protocols<\/a>, Eurosys 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>IEEE S&amp;P<\/td>\n<td>May 2025<\/td>\n<td>Sam DeLaughter and Karen Sollins, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/SP61157.2025.00166\">SYN Proof-of- Work: Improving Volumetric DoS Resilience in TCP, 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025, pp. 1877-1890, doi: <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/SP61157.2025.00166\">10.1109\/SP61157.2025.00166<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">SPHERE USER DISSERTATION AND THESIS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Venue<\/th>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Citation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>University of Minnesota Thesis<\/td>\n<td>December 2025<\/td>\n<td>Eric Nieters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/openview\/7e4fb502c927af48cb51cecfbf8d4247\/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;cbl=18750&amp;diss=y\">Improving and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Learning in Cybersecurity Pedagogy<\/a>, University of Minnesota, 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MIT Thesis<\/td>\n<td>September 2025<\/td>\n<td>Chukwuemekalum Echezona, <a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/entities\/publication\/2549ded8-2d82-45a3-84e9-1f2c0cfc5acf\">Proof-of-Work Based Mitigation of Real Time Video DDoS Attacks<\/a>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><strong>SPHERE TEAM PUBLICATIONS\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Venue<\/th>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Citation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>CSET&#8217; 26<\/td>\n<td>December 2026<\/td>\n<td>T. Yoon, Y. Zheng, and L. Thurlow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsac.org\/2026\/workshops\/cset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Preserving Distributed Virtual Network Embedding<\/a>, To appear in Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET &#8217;26),<br \/>\nLos Angeles, CA, USA, December 2026.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>USENIX VehicleSec<\/td>\n<td>August 2026<\/td>\n<td>Chandrima Ghatak, Christopher Tran, Rik Chatterjee, David Balenson, Jelena Mirkovic, and Jeremy Daily, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/vehiclesec26-ghatak-demo.pdf\">Demo: SPHERE-CAN: Enabling Reproducible Automotive Network Security Experimentation<\/a>, 2026 USENIX VehicleSec Conference, 2026.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACSAC<\/td>\n<td>December 2026<\/td>\n<td>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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACM REP<\/td>\n<td>July 2026<\/td>\n<td>Jelena Mirkovic, Qishen Sam Liang, and David Balenson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isi.edu\/proxy-sphere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2026\/07\/acmrep26-20.pdf\">Measuring Ease of Reuse for Security Research Artifacts with Results-Reproduced Badges<\/a>, To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP &#8217;25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, doi: 10.1145\/3820002.3828598.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MetaCRiSP<\/td>\n<td>May 2026<\/td>\n<td>Jelena Mirkovic, David Balenson, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/SPW72489.2026.00036\">Position Paper: Living Artifacts: Enabling Vertical Progress In Cybersecurity Research<\/a>, 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2026, pp. 293-299, doi: 10.1109\/SPW72489.2026.00036.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ICCPS<\/td>\n<td>May 2025<\/td>\n<td>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3716550.3725158\">Poster: SPHERE CPS Enclave: A Reconfigurable Testbed for Industrial Control System Security Experimentation<\/a>, Proceedings of the ACM\/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>USENIX ;login: Online<\/td>\n<td>December 2024<\/td>\n<td>Jelena Mirkovic, Brian Kocoloski, David Balenson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/publications\/loginonline\/enabling-reproducibility-through-sphere-research-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enabling Reproducibility through the SPHERE Research Infrastructure,(opens in new tab)<\/a> USENIX ;login: magazine, Dec. 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/sphere-project.net\/#citation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS HOW SHOULD I CITE SPHERE? 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