Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation
Outreach
NEWS
Read NSF news story about SPHERE and other Mid-Scale Infrastructure as well as ISI's announcement and NEU's announcement of the SPHERE award.
PRESENTATION & POSTER
Download our latest SPHERE presentation or poster.
PUBLICATIONS
SPHERE team publications
- Jelena Mirkovic, David Balenson, Position Paper: Living Artifacts: Enabling Vertical Progress In Cybersecurity Research, IEEE Security and Privacy MetaCRiSP Workshop, May 2026
- 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
- Jelena Mirkovic, Brian Kocoloski, David Balenson, Enabling Reproducibility through the SPHERE Research Infrastructure, USENIX ;login: magazine, Dec.2024.
SPHERE user publications
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS
Attend and interact with us at one of our planned community outreach events.
| Venue | Type of Outreach | Date | Location | Project Representative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSF ACCESS 2026 | Networking and poster | January 22, 2026 | Los Angeles, CA | David Balenson |
| NDSS 2026 | Networking and poster | February 23-27, 2026 | San Diego, CA | Jelena Mirkovic and David Balenson |
| IEEE S&P 2026 | Networking | May 18-20, 2026 | San Francisco, CA | Jelena Mirkovic and David Balenson |
| MetaCRiSP 2026 | Networking and paper | May 21, 2026 | San Francisco, CA | Jelena Mirkovic and David Balenson |
FUNDING OPPORTUNTIES
The SPHERE team welcomes requests for Letters of Collaboration. To expedite the process, please contact us by filling out the LoC Request Form.
| Name | Solicitation | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| CICI | NSF 25-531 | January 20, 2027 |
| SaTC 2.0 | NSF 25-515 | January 25, 2027 |
Expired Funding Opportunities
| Name | Solicitation | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| CICI | NSF 25-531 | April 2, 2025 |
| CISE-MSI | NSF 24-536 | February 6, 2026 |
| SaTC | NSF 24-504 | Proposals accepted anytime |
| CIRC | NSF 23-589 | September 13, 2024 |
| CICI | NSF 23-517 | February 1, 2024 |