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Signe Rüsch
Ehemalige Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

ruesch[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
I have transferred to the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg in September 2022. You can find current information on my new web site.

Research

Interests

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

Projects

  • RailChain - RailChain
  • BFT2Chain - Design and Validation of Scalable, Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Consensus Algorithms for Blockchains

Publications

2022

  • Maximilian Rolinck, Signe Rüsch, Mark Mennenga, Leander Jehl and Christoph Herrmann: Deployment Settings for the Integration of Blockchain Networks in Learning Factories, in Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Learning Factories, CLF'22, 2022 (rolinck2022deployment, BibTeX)
  • Signe Schwarz-Rüsch, Michael Behlendorf, Markus Becker, René Kudlek, Hesham Hosney Elsayed Mohamed, Felix Schoenitz, Leander Jehl and Rüdiger Kapitza: EventChain: A Blockchain Framework for Secure, Privacy-Preserving Event Verification, in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, Middleware '22, Quebec, QC, Canada, pages 174-187, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022 (ruesch2022eventchain, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Signe Rüsch, Kai Bleeke, Ines Messadi, Stefan Schmidt, Andreas Krampf, Katharina Olze, Susanne Stahnke, Robert Schmid, Lukas Pirl, Roland Kittel, Andreas Polze, Marquart Franz, Matthias Müller, Leander Jehl and Rüdiger Kapitza: ZugChain: Blockchain-Based Juridical Data Recording in Railway Systems, in Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN'22, 2022 (ruesch2022zugchain, BibTeX, Slides, Talk: https://youtu.be/XcoPBIIWKdg)

2021

  • Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Signe Rüsch, Marcus Brandenburger and Marko Vukolic: Adding Fairness to Order: Preventing Front-Running Attacks in BFT Protocols using TEEs, in 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2021), Chicago, USA/virtual, September 2021 (Stathakopoulou21Fairy, BibTeX, Slides, Best Paper Finalist)

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

  • SS22 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
  • SS22 Softwareentwicklungspraktikum: Blockchain in Learning Factories
  • WS21/22 Betriebssysteme
  • SS21 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
  • SS21 SEP: Verteilter Blockchain-basierter Flugdatenschreiber für UAV
  • WS20/21 Betriebssysteme
  • SS20 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
  • WS19/20
  • WS19/20
  • SS19
  • SS19
  • WS18/19
  • SS18
  • SS18
  • SS18
  • SS18
  • WS17/18
  • WS17/18
  • SS17
  • WS16/17

Supervised Theses

Open theses:

See Open Theses: Distributed Systems

Finished theses:

TitleTypeSupervisorStatus
ARM TrustZone-based Byzantine AgreementBachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project ThesisInes Messadi, Signe Rüschfinished ~2021
Implementing the Gosig Agreement Protocol in a Rust-Based BFT FrameworkBachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2021
Implementing the Mir-BFT Agreement Protocol in a Rust-Based BFT FrameworkBachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2022
Literature Analysis of BFT Protocol Scalability in Blockchains, ...Bachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2021
Formal Verification of a Byzantine Agreement ProtocolMaster ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2021
Datentransparenz und Rückverfolgung von Produkten in globalen Lieferketten durch BlockchainBachelor ThesisSigne Rüsch, Maximilian Rolinckfinished ~2021
Integrating a Blockchain Application into the Social Media Platform Twitter, ...Bachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2020
Implementing a Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing Approach for Interactive Event VerificationBachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2021
Multi-Enclave BFT Protocols, ...Master ThesisSigne Rüsch, Ines Messadifinished ~2019
Design and Implementation of an Embedded Blockchain in Train Systems, ...Bachelor ThesisSigne Rüsch, Ines Messadifinished ~2020
Design and Implementation of Byzantine Consensus with Bus Communication in RustMaster ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2020
Security-Aware Application Partitioning in Rust Using Intel SGX, ...Bachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished ~2020
Implementierung von symmetrischen kryptographischen Verfahren in einem Rust-basierten BFT-FrameworkBachelor ThesisKai Bleeke, Signe Rüschfinished ~2021
Implementation of a Byzantine Agreement Scheme in RustProject ThesisSigne Rüschfinished
Improving the Scalability of BFT Protocols, ...Master ThesisSigne Rüschfinished
Characterization and Benchmarking of Current Blockchains, ...Master ThesisSigne Rüschfinished
Collecting Time and Location Evidence on Smartphones, ...Bachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished
Integration of a BFT consensus protocol in Hyperledger Fabric, ...Bachelor ThesisSigne Rüschfinished
Trusted Location Traces in Blockchains, ...Master ThesisSigne Rüschfinished
Trustworthy Recording of Media Files using Blockchains, ...Project ThesisSigne Rüschfinished
Design and Implementation of a Ranking System with Gamification Elements, ...Bachelor ThesisDr. David Goltzsche, Signe Rüschfinished
Low Latency Byzantine Agreement using RDMA, ...Bachelor ThesisSigne Rüsch, Ines Messadifinished

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