When provided with more powerful or extra hardware, state-of-the-art Byzantine fault-
tolerant (BFT) replication protocols are unable to effectively exploit the additional computing …

With the advent of trusted execution environments provided by recent general purpose
processors, a class of replication protocols has become more attractive than ever: Protocols …

Computational offload to hardware accelerators is gaining traction due to increasing
computational demands and efficiency challenges. Programmable hardware, like FPGAs …

From modern cars to airplanes to industrial plants, many applications that must execute in a
timely manner are deployed on distributed systems. In case of safety-critical applications …

State-machine replication (SMR) is a software technique for tolerating failures and for
providing high availability in large-scale systems, through the use of commodity hardware. A …

Hundreds of millions of mobile devices worldwide rely on Trusted Execution Environments
(TEEs) built with Arm TrustZone for the protection of security-critical applications (eg, DRM) …

Computational offload to hardware accelerators is gaining traction due to increasing
computational demands and efficiency challenges. Programmable hardware, like FPGAs …

The operation of many network communication protocols require accurate time
synchronization between nodes. In the automotive space, IEEE 802.3 bw (commonly …

The largest systems in the world today already scale to hundreds of thousands of cores. With
plans under way for exascale systems to emerge within the next decade, we will soon have …