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  1. Chasing Lightspeed Consensus: Fast Wide-Area Byzantine Replication with Mercury

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Berger, Alysson Bessani

  2. Probabilistic Byzantine Fault Tolerance

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  3. VEDLIoT

    Article • May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Muhammad Waqar Azhar, Jämes Ménétrey, Eric Knauss, Alysson Bessani

  4. An overview of software-defined storage

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira, Ricardo Macedo, Alysson Bessani

  5. Lazarus: Automatic Management of Diversity in BFT Systems

    Article • December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  6. SLICER: Safe Long-Term Cloud Event Archival

    Article • December 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani, Iberia Medeiros

  7. PURE: Generating Quality Threat Intelligence by Clustering and Correlating OSINT

    Article • August 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani, Iberia Medeiros

  8. Cyberthreat Detection from Twitter using Deep Neural Networks

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  9. Using Blockchains to Implement Distributed Measuring Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, May 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  10. BigFlow: Real-time and reliable anomaly-based intrusion detection for high-speed networks

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, April 2019, Elsevier

    Alysson Bessani

  11. CHARON: A Secure Cloud-of-Clouds System for Storing and Sharing Big Data

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  12. Detecting Malicious Web Scraping Activity: A Study with Diverse Detectors

    Article • December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  13. A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  14. BCRB 2018 introduction

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  15. Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Atomic Multicast

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  16. On the Challenges of Building a BFT SCADA

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  17. Using Diverse Detectors for Detecting Malicious Web Scraping Activity

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  18. How blockchains can improve measuring instruments regulation and control

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  19. SieveQ: A Layered BFT Protection System for Critical Services

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  20. Dynamic adaptation of byzantine consensus protocols

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani, Luis Rodrigues

  21. Knowledge Connectivity Requirements for Solving Byzantine Consensus with Unknown Participants

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, March 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  22. Ginja

    Article • December 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  23. A Resilient Stream Learning Intrusion Detection Mechanism for Real-Time Analysis of Network Traffic

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  24. Elastic State Machine Replication

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  25. A byzantine fault-tolerant ordering service for the hyperledger fabric blockchain platform

    Article • January 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  26. How blockchains can help legal metrology

    Article • January 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  27. How Can Photo Sharing Inspire Sharing Genomes?

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  28. Design and Implementation of a Consistent Data Store for a Distributed SDN Control Plane

    Article • September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  29. JITeR: Just-in-time application-layer routing

    Article • Computer Networks, July 2016, Elsevier

    Alysson Bessani

  30. BiobankCloud: A Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  31. Separating the WHEAT from the Chaff: An Empirical Design for Geo-Replicated State Machines

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  32. On-Demand Indexing for Referential Compression of DNA Sequences

    Article • PLOS One, July 2015, PLOS

    Alysson Bessani

  33. Extensible distributed coordination

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  34. A High-Throughput Method to Detect Privacy-Sensitive Human Genomic Data

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  35. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  36. On the consistency of heterogeneous composite objects

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  37. The TClouds Platform

    Article • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, December 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  38. Towards Secure and Dependable Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  39. On the Design of Practical Fault-Tolerant SDN Controllers

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  40. State Machine Replication for the Masses with BFT-SMART

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  41. DepSky

    Article • ACM Transactions on Storage, November 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  42. E-biobanking: What Have You Done to My Cell Samples?

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  43. On the Feasibility of a Consistent and Fault-Tolerant Data Store for SDNs

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  44. On the Performance of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant MapReduce

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  45. An intrusion-tolerant firewall design for protecting SIEM systems

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  46. Analysis of operating system diversity for intrusion tolerance

    Article • Software Practice and Experience, January 2013, Wiley

    Alysson Bessani

  47. Efficient Byzantine Fault-Tolerance

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computers, January 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  48. FITCH: Supporting Adaptive Replicated Services in the Cloud

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  49. The TClouds platform

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  50. On the Feasibility of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant MapReduce in Clouds-of-Clouds

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  51. The TClouds architecture: Open and resilient cloud-of-clouds computing

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  52. Erratum to: On the reliability and availability of replicated and rejuvenating systems under stealth attacks and intrusions

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  53. From Byzantine Consensus to BFT State Machine Replication: A Latency-Optimal Transformation

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  54. On the reliability and availability of replicated and rejuvenating systems under stealth attacks and intrusions

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  55. Brief Announcement: Decoupled and Consensus-Free Reconfiguration for Fault-Tolerant Storage

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  56. Byzantine Fault-Tolerant MapReduce: Faults are Not Just Crashes

    Article • November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  57. From Byzantine fault tolerance to intrusion tolerance (a position paper)

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  58. OS diversity for intrusion tolerance: Myth or reality?

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  59. Recursive virtual machines for advanced security mechanisms

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  60. On the Reliability and Availability of Systems Tolerant to Stealth Intrusion

    Article • April 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  61. DepSky

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  62. EBAWA: Efficient Byzantine Agreement for Wide-Area Networks

    Article • November 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  63. A Dependable Infrastructure for Cooperative Web Services Coordination

    Article • International Journal of Web Services Research, April 2010, IGI Global

    Alysson Bessani

  64. Highly Available Intrusion-Tolerant Services with Proactive-Reactive Recovery

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  65. Spin One's Wheels? Byzantine Fault Tolerance with a Spinning Primary

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  66. An Efficient Byzantine-Resilient Tuple Space

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computers, August 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  67. Intrusion-tolerant self-healing devices for critical infrastructure protection

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  68. Sharing Memory between Byzantine Processes Using Policy-Enforced Tuple Spaces

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  69. Designing Modular and Redundant Cyber Architectures for Process Control: Lessons learned

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  70. Proactive Byzantine Quorum Systems

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  71. The Crutial Way of Critical Infrastructure Protection

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  72. A Dependable Infrastructure for Cooperative Web Services Coordination

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  73. On Byzantine generals with alternative plans

    Article • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, September 2008, Elsevier

    Alysson Bessani

  74. DepSpace

    Article • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, April 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  75. Byzantine Consensus with Unknown Participants

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  76. DepSpace

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  77. FOREVER

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani, Dr Vladimir Stankovic

  78. The FOREVER service for fault/intrusion removal

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alysson Bessani

  79. A Low-Power and SEU-Tolerant Switch Architecture for Network on Chips

    Article • December 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  80. Decoupled Quorum-Based Byzantine-Resilient Coordination in Open Distributed Systems

    Article • July 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  81. A Semi-reliable Multicast Protocol for Distributed Multimedia Applications in Large Scale Networks

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  82. Extending the UMIOP Specification for Reliable Multicast in CORBA

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  83. Integrating the ROMIOP and ETF Specifications for Atomic Multicast in CORBA

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alysson Bessani

  84. Sharing Memory between Byzantine Processes using Policy-Enforced Tuple Spaces

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani

  85. Implementing the multicast inter-ORB protocol

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alysson Bessani