Signe RüschWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Technische Universität BraunschweigCarl 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
Publications
- 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, Accepted for publication.)
- 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)
- 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
- SS19 SEP: Automated Urban Gardening
- SS19 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
- WS18/19 Betriebssysteme
- SS18 Teamprojekt verteilte Systeme: Pervasive Computing in Blockchains
- SS18 SEP: IBRCoin: Eine ressourcenschonende Alternative zu Bitcoin
- SS18 Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Byzantine Fault Tolerance-Based Consensus Protocols for Blockchains
- SS18 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
- WS17/18 Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Blockchain: From Cryptocurrencies to Smart Contracts
- WS17/18 Betriebssysteme
- SS17 SEP: Trusted I/O für Intel SGX Enklaven mittels Raspberry Pi
- WS16/17 Betriebssysteme
Supervised Theses
Open theses:
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IoT-Aware Blockchain Consensus | Bachelor Thesis, Project Thesis | Signe Rüsch | open |
| Integrating a BFT Protocol in Rust into a Blockchain Platform | Master Thesis, Project Thesis | Signe Rüsch | open |
Running theses:
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trusted Location Traces in Blockchains | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | running |
| Multi-Enclave BFT Protocols | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi | running |
| Design and Implementation of a Ranking System with Gamification Elements | Bachelor Thesis | David Goltzsche, Signe Rüsch | tentative |
Finished theses:
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Implementation of a Byzantine Agreement Scheme in Rust | Project Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Improving the Scalability of BFT Protocols | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Characterization and Benchmarking of Current Blockchains | Master Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Collecting Time and Location Evidence on Smartphones | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Integration of a BFT consensus protocol in Hyperledger Fabric | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Trustworthy Recording of Media Files using Blockchains | Project Thesis | Signe Rüsch | finished |
| Low Latency Byzantine Agreement using RDMA | Bachelor Thesis | Signe Rüsch, Ines Messadi | finished |
