Sisi Duan Publications

Also see my papers at DBLP. *Students under my supervision.

Conference Full Papers

  • [c18] EPIC: Efficient Asynchronous BFT with Adaptive Security. [PDF][DOI][Code]
    • Chao Liu, Sisi Duan, and Haibin Zhang. DSN 2020.
  • [c17] BEAT: Asynchronous BFT Made Practical. [PDF][DOI][Code]
    • Sisi Duan, Michael K. Reiter, and Haibin Zhang. CCS 2018.
  • [c16] A Formal Treatment of Efficient Byzantine Routing Against Fully Byzantine Adversary. [PDF][DOI]
    • Siddhant Goenka, Sisi Duan, and Haibin Zhang. NCA 2018.
  • [c15] HotSpots: Failure Cascades on Heterogeneous Critical Infrastructure Networks. [PDF][DOI]
    • Liangzhe Chen, Xinfeng Xu, Sangkeun Lee, Sisi Duan, Alfonso G. Tarditi, Supriya Chinthavali, and B. Aditya Prakash. CIKM 2017: 1599-1607.
  • [c14] Secure Causal Atomic Broadcast, Revisited. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Michael K. Reiter, and Haibin Zhang. DSN 2017: 61-72.
  • [c13] Best Effort Broadcast under Cascading Failures in Interdependent Networks. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Sangkeun Lee, Supriya Chinthavali, and Mallikarjun Shankar. ICDCN 2017: 27. One of the 3 best papers of the networking track. Invited to the journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Elsevier.
  • [c12] URBAN-NET: A Network-based Infrastructure Monitoring and Analysis System for Emergency Management and Public Safety. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sangkeun Lee, Liangzhe Chen, Sisi Duan, Supriya Chinthavali, Mallikarjun Shankar, and B. Aditya Prakash. Big Data 2016: 2600-2610.
  • [c11] Byzantine Reliable Broadcast in Sparse Networks. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Lucas Nicely, and Haibin Zhang. NCA 2016: 175-182.
  • [c10] Cost Sensitive Moving Target Consensus. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Yun Li, and Karl Levitt. NCA 2016: 272-281.
  • [c9] Practical State Machine Replication with Confidentiality. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan and Haibin Zhang. SRDS 2016: 187-196.
  • [c8] Reliable Communication Models in Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Networks. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Sangkeun Lee, Supriya Chinthavali, and Malikarjun Shankar. RWS 2016:152-157.
  • [c7] Energy Management Policies in Distributed Residential Energy Systems. [DOI]
    • Sisi Duan and Jingtao Sun. IDCS 2016: 121-133.
  • [c6] Utilizing Semantic Big Data for realizing a National-scale Infrastructure Vulnerability Analysis System. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sangkeun Lee, Supriya Chinthavali, Sisi Duan, and Malikarjun Shankar. SBD@SIGMOD 2016: 3.
  • [c5] A Self-Adaptive Middleware for Efficient Routing in Distributed Sensor Networks. [PDF][DOI]
    • Jingtao Sun and Sisi Duan. SMC 2015: 322-327.
  • [c4] Towards a Self-Adaptive Middleware for Building Reliable Publish/Subscribe Systems. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Jingtao Sun, and Sean Peisert. IDCS 2015: 157-168.
  • [c3] BChain: Byzantine Replication with High Throughput and Embedded Reconfiguration. [PDF][DOI][Press]
    • Sisi Duan, Hein Meling, Sean Peisert, and Haibin Zhang. OPODIS 2014: 91-106.
  • [c2] ByzID: Byzantine Fault Tolerance from Intrusion Detection. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Karl Levitt, Hein Meling, Sean Peisert, and Haibin Zhang. SRDS 2014: 253-264. Best Paper Candidate Award.
  • [c1] P2S: A Fault-Tolerant Publish/Subscribe Infrastructure. [PDF][DOI]
    • Tiancheng Chang, Sisi Duan, Hein Meling, Sean Peisert, and Haibin Zhang. DEBS 2014: 189-197.

Conference Short Papers

  • [s2] ByzGame: Byzantine Generals Game. [PDF][DOI][Access ByzGame]
    • James Clavin*, Pradeep M. Prakash, and Sisi Duan. DEBS 2020.
  • [s1] Demo Abstract: ByzGame, a Visualized and Understandable BFT Consensus. [PDF][DOI]
    • James Clavin* and Sisi Duan. Middleware 2019.

Journal

  • [j3] Assessment Methods of Network Resilience for Cyber-Human-Physical Systems [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan and Bilal M. Ayyub. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Analysis, 6(1), 2020. (Online: Oct 2019)
  • [j2] Best Effort Broadcast under Cascading Failures in Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Networks. [PDF][DOI]
    • Sisi Duan, Sangkeun Lee, Supriya Chinthavali, and Mallikarjun Shankar. Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 43: 114-130, 2018.
  • [j1] hBFT: Speculative Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Minimum Cost. [PDF][DOI] Note: hBFT has potential safety issues, as published here.
    • Sisi Duan, Sean Peisert, and Karl Levitt. IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing, 12(1): 58-70, 2015.

Doctoral Dissertation

  • Building Reliable and Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. [PDF]
    • Sisi Duan. Ph.D. Dissertation, Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Dec 2014. Committee members: Prof. Karl Levitt (chair), Prof. Sean Peisert, and Prof. Matt Bishop.