| Carl Friedrich Gauß Faculty | Department of Computer Science

Signe Rüsch

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Technische Universität Braunschweig
Carl Friedrich Gauß Faculty
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks
Room 116
Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 1st floor
38106 Braunschweig
Phone: +49 531 3913265
Fax: +49 531 3915936
EMail: ruesch[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Research

Interests

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Trusted Execution (Intel SGX)

Projects

- RailChain
REFIT - Resource-Efficient Fault and Intrusion Tolerance

Publications

2019

Signe Rüsch, Kai Bleeke and Rüdiger Kapitza: Themis: An Efficient and Memory-Safe BFT Framework in Rust (Research Statement), in 3rd Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers (SERIAL 2019), Davis, CA, USA, December 2019 (ruesch2019themis, BibTeX, Slides)
Signe Rüsch, Kai Bleeke and Rüdiger Kapitza: Bloxy: Providing Transparent and Generic BFT-Based Ordering Services for Blockchains, in 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019), Lyon, France, October 2019 (ruesch2019bloxy, BibTeX, Slides, Poster, Best Poster Award.)

2018

Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi and Rüdiger Kapitza: Towards Low-Latency Byzantine Agreement Protocols Using RDMA, in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Byzantine Consensus and Resilient Blockchains, BCRB'18, Luxemburg, June 2018 (ruesch2018rubin, BibTeX, Slides)
Signe Rüsch: High-Performance Consensus Mechanisms for Blockchains, in 12th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop, EuroDW'18, Porto, Portugal, April 2018 (ruesch2018dw, BibTeX, Poster)
David Goltzsche, Signe Rüsch, Manuel Nieke, Sébastien Vaucher, Nico Weichbrodt, Valerio Schiavoni, Pierre-Louis Aublin, Paolo Costa, Christof Fetzer, Pascal Felber, Peter Pietzuch and Rüdiger Kapitza: EndBox: Scalable Middlebox Functions Using Client-Side Trusted Execution, in Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN'18, 2018 (goltzsche2018endbox, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
Wenbo Xu, Signe Rüsch, Bijun Li and Rüdiger Kapitza: Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Consensus in Asynchronous and Wireless Embedded Systems, in 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2018), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), pages 15:1-15:16, 2018 (xu2018opodis, DOI, BibTeX)

2017

Signe Rüsch, Dominik Schürmann, Rüdiger Kapitza and Lars Wolf: Forward Secure Delay-Tolerant Networking, in Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenged Networks, CHANTS '17, Snowbird, Utah, USA, pages 7-12, ACM, October 2017 (ruesch:chants:2017, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)

Teaching

Courses

Supervised Theses

Open theses:

See Open Theses: Distributed Systems

Title	Type	Supervisor	Status
Design and Implementation of a Byzantine Agreement Framework for Comparison of Scalability Approaches in Rust	Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Thesis	Signe Rüsch	open
Formal Verification of a Byzantine Agreement Protocol	Master Thesis, Project Thesis	Signe Rüsch	open
Datentransparenz und Rückverfolgung von Produkten in globalen Lieferketten durch Blockchain	Bachelor Thesis, Project Thesis	Signe Rüsch, Maximilian Rolinck	open

Running theses:

Title	Type	Supervisor	Status
Implementierung von symmetrischen kryptographischen Verfahren in einem Rust-basierten BFT-Framework, Implementing Symmetric Cryptography in a Rust-based BFT Framework	Bachelor Thesis, Project Thesis	Kai Bleeke, Signe Rüsch	tentative

Finished theses:

Title	Type	Supervisor	Status
ARM TrustZone-based Byzantine Agreement	Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Thesis	Ines Messadi, Signe Rüsch	examined
Literaturanalyse zur Skalierbarkeit von BFT-Protokollen in Blockchains, Literature Analysis of BFT Protocol Scalability in Blockchains	Bachelor Thesis	Signe Rüsch	examined
Integration einer Blockchain-Anwendung in die Social Media Plattform Twitter, Integrating a Blockchain Application into the Social Media Platform Twitter	Bachelor Thesis	Signe Rüsch	examined
Multi-Enclave BFT Protocols, Multi-Enclave BFT Protocols	Master Thesis	Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi	examined
Design und Implementierung einer Blockchain für eingebettete Systeme innerhalb eines Zugs, Design and Implementation of an Embedded Blockchain in Train Systems	Bachelor Thesis	Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi	examined
Sicherheitsorientierte Partitionierung von Anwendungen in Rust mit Intel SGX, Security-Aware Application Partitioning in Rust Using Intel SGX	Bachelor Thesis	Signe Rüsch	examined
Implementation of a Byzantine Agreement Scheme in Rust	Project Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished
Verbesserung der Skalierbarkeit von BFT-Protokollen, Improving the Scalability of BFT Protocols	Master Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished
Charakterisierung und Entwicklung eines Benchmarks zur Evaluierung aktueller Blockchains, Characterization and Benchmarking of Current Blockchains	Master Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished
Sammlung von Zeit- und Standortnachweisen auf Smartphones, Collecting Time and Location Evidence on Smartphones	Bachelor Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished
Integrierung eines BFT-Konsensusprotokolls in Hyperledger Fabric, Integration of a BFT consensus protocol in Hyperledger Fabric	Bachelor Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished
Vertrauenswürdige Speicherung von Ortsdaten in Blockchains, Trusted Location Traces in Blockchains	Master Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished
Vertrauenswürdige Aufzeichnung von Mediendaten mit Blockchains, Trustworthy Recording of Media Files using Blockchains	Project Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished
Design und Implementierung eines Ranglistensystems mit Gamification-Elementen, Design and Implementation of a Ranking System with Gamification Elements	Bachelor Thesis	David Goltzsche, Signe Rüsch	finished
Low Latency Byzantine Agreement using RDMA, Low Latency Byzantine Agreement using RDMA	Bachelor Thesis	Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi	finished
Design und Implementierung eines Byzantinischen Einigungsprotokolls mit Bus-Kommunikation in Rust, Design and Implementation of Byzantine Consensus with Bus Communication in Rust	Master Thesis	Signe Rüsch	finished

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