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

• WS20/21 Betriebssysteme
• SS20 Betriebssysteme (nur Klausur)
• WS19/20 Betriebssysteme
• WS19/20 Teamprojekt Verteilte Systeme: Automated Urban Gardening
• 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:

See Open Theses: Distributed Systems

Running theses:

Finished theses: