Program/Program Overview


Monday, Sept 19

13:00 Registration
14:00-15:30 SRMC Workshop
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 SRMC Workshop

Tuesday, Sept 20

08:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Conference Opening and Welcome Address
09:30-10:30 Keynote Andrea Bondavalli
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 1: Federated and Edge #1

Chair: Rui Oliveira, Univ of Minho, Portugal

  • D-Cliques: Compensating for Data Heterogeneity with Topology in Decentralized Federated Learning

    Bellet, Auralien (Inria Lille; France), Kermarrec, Anne-Marie (EPFL; Switzerland), Lavoie, Erick (EPFL; Switzerland).

  • AGIC: Approximate Gradient Inversion Attack on Federated Learning

    Xu, Jin (Delft University of Technology; Netherlands), Decouchant, Jeremie (Delft University of Technology; Netherlands), Hong Chi (Delft University of Technology; Netherlands), Huang, Jiyue (Delft University of Technology; Netherlands), Chen, Lydia Y (Delft University of Technology; Netherlands).

  • DAG-based Task Orchestration for Edge Computing

    Li, Xiang (Purdue University; United States of America), Abdallah, Mustafa (Purdue University; United States of America), Suryavansh, Shikhar (Cisco Systems; United States of America), Chiang, Mung (Purdue University; United States of America), Kim, Kwang Taik (Purdue University; United States of America), Bagchi, Saurabh (Purdue University; United States of America).

12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 2: Security #1

Chair: Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, US

  • In-Vivo Fuzz Testing for Network Services

    Lai, Wen-Yang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Taiwan), Tsai, Kun-Che (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Taiwan), Chen, Che (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Taiwan), Wu, Yu-Sung (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Taiwan).

  • An Investigation on Data Center Cooling Systems Using FPGA-based Temperature Side Channels

    Liang, Yuan (Virginia Tech; United States of America), Gao, Xing (University of Delaware; United States of America), Sun, Kun (George Mason University; United States of America), Xiong, Wenjie (Virginia Tech; United States of America), Wang, Haining (Virginia Tech; United States of America).

  • Secure Publish-Process-Subscribe System for Dispersed Computing

    Jin, Weizhao (University of Southern California; United States of America), Krishnamachari, Bhaskar (University of Southern California; United States of America), Naveed, Muhammad (University of Southern California; United States of America), Ravi, Srivatsan (University of Southern California; United States of America), Sanou, Eduard (University of Southern California; United States of America), Wright, Kwame-Lante (Carnegie Mellon University; United States of America).

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 PhD Forum (Short Presentations)
Chair: José Orlando Pereira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
17:30 Welcome Reception and PhD Poster Session

Wednesday, Sept 21

08:30 Registration
09:00-10:00 Keynote Engin Kirda
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 3 (hybrid): Best Paper Candidate Session

Chair: Luis Rodriguez, INESC, Portugal

  • Never Too Late: Tracing and Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

    Hui Zeng, Tongqing Zhou, Wu Xinyi, Zhiping Cai.

  • Compositional Model Checking of Consensus Protocols Specified in TLA+ via Interaction-Preserving Abstraction

    Gu, Xiaosong (Nanjing University; China), Cao, Wei (Alibaba Group; China), Zhu, Yicong (Alibaba Group; China), Song, Xuan (Alibaba Group; China), Huang, Yu (Nanjing University; China), Ma, Xiaoxing (Nanjing University; China).

  • Democratizing Machine Learning

    Boubouh, Karim (UM6P; Morocco), Boussetta, Amine (UM6P; Morocco), Gupta, Nirupam (EPFL; Switzerland), Maurer, Alexandre (UM6P; Morocco), Pinot, Rafael (EPFL; Switzerland).

12:00-13:30 Lunch and PhD Poster Session
13:30-15:30 Session 4: Protocols

Chair: Paul Ezhilchelvan, Newcastle Univ., United Kingdom

  • Byzantine Auditable Atomic Register with Optimal Resilience

    Rapetti, Alexandre (University Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, F-91120, Palaiseau, France), Pozzo, Antonella Del (University Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, F-91120, Palaiseau, France), Milani, Alessia (Aix Marseille University, LIS UMR 7020 CNRS, Marseille, France).

  • G-SINC: Global Synchronization Infrastructure for Network Clocks

    Frei, Marc (ETH Zürich; Switzerland), Kwon, Jonghoon (ETH Zürich; Switzerland), Tabaeiaghdaei, Seyedali (ETH Zürich; Switzerland), Wyss, Marc (ETH Zürich; Switzerland), Lenzen, Christoph (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik; Germany), Perrig, Adrian (ETH Zürich; Switzerland).

  • Babel: A Framework for Developing Performant and Dependable Distributed Protocols

    Fouto, Pedro (DI-FCT-UNL & NOVALINCS; Portugal), Costa, Pedro Akos (DI-FCT-UNL & NOVALINCS; Portugal), Preguioa,, Nuno (DI-FCT-UNL & NOVALINCS; Portugal), Leitao, Joao (DI-FCT-UNL & NOVALINCS; Portugal).

  • Silent Anonymous Snap-Stabilizing Termination Detection

    Blin, Lalia (LIP6, University d'Evry Val d'Essone; France), Johnen, Colette (LIP6, INRIA, University of Bordeaux; France), Le Bouder, Gabriel (LIP6, INRIA, Sorbonne University; France), Petit, Franck (LIP6, INRIA, Sorbonne University; France).

16:00-17:00 Session 5 (online only): Federated and Edge #2

Chair: Somali Chaterji, Purdue University, US

  • Detection and Incentive: A Tampering Detection Mechanism for Object Detection in Edge Computing

    Zhao, Zhihui (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; China), Zeng, Yicheng (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; China), Wang, Jinfa (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China), Li, Hong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China), Zhu, Hongsong (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; China), Sun, Limin (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; China).

  • FWC: Fitting Weight Compression Method for Reducing Communication Traffic for Federated Learning

    Jiang, Hao (Nanjing University of Science and Technology; China), Yan, Kedong (Nanjing University of Science and Technology; China), Huang, Chanying (Nanjing University of Science and Technology; China), Li, Qianmu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology; China), Xiao,, Shan (Fiberhome Communication Technology Co., Ltd; China).

17:30 Visit of Schönbrunn Castle
19:00 Conference Dinner

Thursday, Sept 22

08:30 Registration
09:00-10:00 Keynote Wilfried Steiner
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 6: Modeling and Performance

Chair: Karthik Pattabiraman, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada

  • A Performance Study of Epoch-based Commit Protocols in Distributed OLTP Databases

    Ezhilchelvan, Paul (Newcastle University; United Kingdom), Waudby, Jack (Newcastle University; United Kingdom), Mitrani, Isi (Newcastle University; United Kingdom), Webber, Jim (Neo4J, London; United Kingdom).

  • Dynamic Fault Trees with Correlated Failure Times - Modeling and Efficient Analysis

    Buchholz, Peter (TU Dortmund University; Germany), Blume, Andreas (TU Dortmund University; Germany).

  • Real-Time Byzantine Resilience for Power Grid Substations

    Bommareddy, Sahiti (Johns Hopkins University; United States of America), Qian Daniel (Johns Hopkins University; United States of America), Bonebrake, Christopher (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; United States of America), Skare, Paul (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; United States of America), Amir, Yair (Johns Hopkins University; United States of America).

12:00-12:30 Wrap-up Plenary
14:00-15:30 Session 7 (online only): Security #2

Chair: Xiaolin Chang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

  • Soter: Deep Learning Enhanced In-Network Attack Detection Based on Programmable Switches

    Guorui Xie, Qing Li, Chupeng Cui, Peican Zhu, Dan Zhao, Wanxin Shi, Zhuyun Qi, Yong Jiang, Xi Xiao.

  • SigGuard: Hardening Vulnerable Signal Handling in Commodity Operating Systems

    Miao Cai, Junru Shen, Tianning Zhang, Hao Huang, Baoliu Ye.

  • Reliable Password Hardening Service with Opt-Out

    Jia, Chunfu (Nankai University; China), Wu, Shaoqiang (Nankai University; China), Wang, Ding (Nankai University; China).

16:00-17:30 Session 8 (online only): Data-centers and Blockchain

Chair: Muntasir Rahman, Microsoft, US

  • An In-Depth Correlative Study Between DRAM Errors and Server Failures in Production Data Centers

    Zhinan Cheng, Shujie Han, Patrick P. C. Lee, Xin Li, Jiongzhou Liu, Zhan Li.

  • XHR-Code: An Efficient Wide Stripe Erasure Code to Reduce Cross-Rack Overhead in Cloud Storage Systems

    Yang, Guofeng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; China), Xue, Huangzhen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; China), Gu, Yunfei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; China), Wu, Chentao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; China), Li, Jie (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; China), Guo, Minyi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; China), Li, Shiyi (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen; China), Xie, Xin (Alibaba Group; China), Dong, Yuanyuan (Alibaba Group; China), Zhao, Yafei (Alibaba Group; China).

  • Achieving Scalability and Load Balance across Blockchain Shards for State Sharding

    Li, Canlin (Sun Yat-sen University; China), Huang<, Huawei (Sun Yat-sen University; China), Zhao, Yetong (Sun Yat-sen University; China), Peng, Xiaowen (Sun Yat-sen University; China), Yang, Ruijie (Huawei Blockchain Lab, Huawei Cloud Tech Co., Ltd.; China), Zheng, Zibin (Sun Yat-sen University; China), Guo, Song (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; China).