Main interests

• Distributed Systems
• Trusted execution
• Fault- and Intrusion-Tolerant Middleware

Teaching

An overview about the courses given by our group can be found on the corresponding page of the institute.

Current Projects

Information about the research projects.

New Publications

• David Goltzsche, Manuel Nieke, Thomas Knauth and Rüdiger Kapitza: AccTEE: A WebAssembly-based Two-way Sandbox for Trusted Resource Accounting, in Proceedings of the 20th International Middleware Conference, Middleware '19, Davis, CA, USA, ACM, 2019 (goltzsche2019acctee, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
• Stefan Brenner and Rüdiger Kapitza: Trust More, Serverless, in Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems and Storage (SysTor'19), Haifa, Israel, pages 33-43, 2019 (systor19lambda, DOI, BibTeX)
• Vasily A. Sartakov, Stefan Brenner, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Sara Bouchenak, Gaël Thomas and Rüdiger Kapitza: EActors: Fast and flexible trusted computing using SGX, in 19th International Middleware Conference Proceedings (Middleware'18), ACM, 2018 (sartakov18eactors, BibTeX)
• All recent publications

Selected Publications

• Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler and Rüdiger Kapitza: Hybrids on Steroids: SGX-based High Performance BFT, in Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '17), 2017 (behl17hybster, BibTeX)
• Björn Cassens, Simon Ripperger, Martin Hierold, Frieder Mayer and Rüdiger Kapitza: Automated Encounter Detection for Animal-Borne Sensor Nodes, in International conference on embedded wireless systems and networks, Uppsala, Sweden, 2017 (cassens2017ewsn, BibTeX)
• Nico Weichbrodt, Anil Kurmus, Peter Pietzuch and Rüdiger Kapitza: AsyncShock: Exploiting Synchronisation Bugs in Intel SGX Enclaves, in Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2016), 2016 (weichbr16esorics, BibTeX)
• Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler and Rüdiger Kapitza: Consensus-Oriented Parallelization: How to Earn Your First Million, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Middleware Conference (Middleware '15), pages 173-184, ACM, 2015 (behl15cop, DOI, BibTeX)
• Anil Kurmus, Reinhard Tartler, Daniela Dorneanu, Bernhard Heinloth, Valentin Rothberg, Andreas Ruprecht, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Daniel Lohmann and Rüdiger Kapitza: Attack Surface Metrics and Automated Compile-Time OS Kernel Tailoring, in Proceedings of the 20th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '13), Internet Society (ISOC), San Diego, CA United States, 2013 (kurmus13ndss, BibTeX)
• Rüdiger Kapitza, Johannes Behl, Christian Cachin, Tobias Distler, Simon Kuhnle, Seyed Vahid Mohammadi, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat and Klaus Stengel: CheapBFT: Resource-efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance, in Proceedings of the EuroSys 2012 Conference (EuroSys '12), European Chapter of ACM SIGOPS, Bern, Switzerland, pages 295-308, 2012 (kapitza12eurosys, DOI, BibTeX)

List of all Publications

Recent Professional Activities (2014-2021)

Middleware '21 (Program Committee)
DSN '21 (Program Commitee)
CCGrid '21 (Program Commitee)

Middleware '20 (Program Co-Chair)
EWSN '20 (Program Commitee)
DSN '20 (Program Commitee)

SysTEX '19 (Program Committee and Steering Committee)
DSN '19 (Program Commitee)

SERIAL '18 (Program Co-Chair)
EuroSys '18 (Program Commitee)
Middleware '18 (Program Committee)
SRDS '18 (Program Committee)
DSN '18 (Program Commitee)
ICDCS '18 (Program Commitee)
Ada-Europe '18 (Program Commitee)
SysTEX '18 (Program Committee and Steering Committee)

SERIAL '17 (Program Co-Chair)
SysTEX '17 (Program Co-Chair)
Opodis '17 (Program Committee)
Middleware '17 (Program Committee)
DSN '17 (Program Committee)

SysTEX '16 (Program Co-Chair)
ARM '16 (Program Co-Chair)
Opodis '16 (Program Committee)
Middleware '16 (Program Committee)
ICDCS '16 (Program Committee)
DAIS '16 (Program Committee)

EuroSys '15 (Program Committee)
Opodis '15 (Program Committee)
Middleware '15 (Program Committee)
TRUST '15 (Program Committee) SRDS '15 (Program Committee)



Middleware '14 (Program Committee)
ACM ASIACCS '14 (Program Committee)
DCDV '14 (Program Committee)
CrossCloud '14 (Program Committee)
ETX 2014 - Eclipse Technology eXchange Workshop (Program Committee)
ACM SAC DADS '14 (Program Committee)