Tobias Distler

Associate professor (Privatdozent) at the
Department of Computer Science 4 (Distributed Systems and Operating Systems) at
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitiät Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

This is an archived page. Please find the current website here: https://sys.cs.fau.de/person/distler

Research

Ongoing Projects

REFIT	Resource-efficient Fault and Intrusion Tolerance (REFIT)
EDC	Efficient Distributed Coordination (EDC)
E³	Energy-aware Execution Environments (E³)

Finished Projects

TClouds	Trustworthy Clouds – Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure (TClouds)
VM-FIT	Virtual Machine-based Fault and Intrusion Tolerance (VM-FIT)
FOREVER	Fault/intrusion Removal through Evolution & Recovery (FOREVER)

Professional Activities

Conferences & Workshops

Middleware 2021	Program Committee of the 22nd Middleware Conference (Middleware '21)
DSN 2021	Program Committee of the 51st International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '21)
ARES 2021	External Reviewer for the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '21)
Middleware 2020	Artifact Evaluation Chair + Program Committee of the 21st Middleware Conference (Middleware '20)
ARM 2019	Program Committee of the 18th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM '19), co-located with the 20th Middleware Conference (Middleware '19)
RTAS 2019	Program Committee of the 25th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '19)
CrossCloud 2019	Program Committee of the 6th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud '19), co-located with the 19th International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid '19)
2018 and earlier	Co-Chair of the 1st Workshop on Byzantine Consensus and Resilient Blockchains (BCRB '18), co-located with the 48th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '18) Program Committee of BlockSEA '18, CrossCloud '18, ProWeb '18, ARM '17, CrossCloud '17, ProWeb '17, ARM '16, PaPoC '16, CrossCloud '16, and CrossCloud Brokers '14 External Reviewer for the 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '12) Shadow Program Committee of the 7th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '12)

Journals

IEEE TC	Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC)
IEEE TCC	Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC)
IEEE TDSC	Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC)
IEEE TNSE	Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IEEE TNSE)
IEEE TPDS	Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS)
IEEE IoTJ	Reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoTJ)
KUIN	Reviewer for KI – Künstliche Intelligenz (KUIN)

Honors

Teaching Award	FAU Teaching Award for Junior Researchers 2021
Best Student Paper Award	Best Student Paper Award at the 21st Middleware Conference (Middleware '20) for the paper "Resilient Cloud-based Replication with Low Latency"
Best Paper Award	Best Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS '18) for the paper "Strome: Energy-Aware Data-Stream Processing"
Outstanding Paper Award	Outstanding Paper Award at the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS '18) for the paper "Whole-System Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems"
Ph.D. Award	IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award for the 2012-2013 academic year
Nomination	FAU nominee for the 2014 GI Dissertation Award

Teaching

Summer Term 2022

Distributed Systems (Lecture & Exercises)

Previous Terms

MWCC	Middleware – Cloud Computing	Lecture	WT 2021/22, WT 2020/21, WT 2019/20, WT 2018/19, WT 2017/18, WT 2016/17, WT 2015/16, WT 2014/15, WT 2013/14, WT 2012/13
MWCC	Middleware – Cloud Computing	Exercises	WT 2020/21, WT 2019/20, WT 2018/19, WT 2017/18, WT 2016/17, WT 2015/16, WT 2014/15, WT 2013/14, WT 2012/13, WT 2011/12, WT 2010/11
VS	Distributed Systems	Lecture	ST 2021, ST 2019, ST 2018, ST 2017, ST 2016
VS	Distributed Systems	Exercises	ST 2021, ST 2019, ST 2018, ST 2017, ST 2016, ST 2015, ST 2014, ST 2013, ST 2012, ST 2011, ST 2010, ST 2009, ST 2008
AKSS	System Software	Seminar	WT 2018/19, ST 2010
MW	Middleware	Exercises	WT 2009/10, WT 2008/09

Publications

Resource-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Systems

PRDC 2021	Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler. Egalitarian Byzantine Fault Tolerance. In Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC '21), pages 77–86, Perth, 1–4 December, 2021. (BibTeX, Extended version)
EDCC 2021	Laura Lawniczak and Tobias Distler. Stream-based State Machine Replication. In Proceedings of the 17th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC '21), pages 119–126, Munich, 13–16 September 2021. (BibTeX, Extended version, Source code)
CSUR 2021	Tobias Distler. Byzantine Fault-Tolerant State-Machine Replication from a Systems Perspective. In ACM Computing Surveys, 54(1):24:1–38, 2021. (BibTeX)
Middleware 2020 (Best Student Paper)	Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler. Resilient Cloud-based Replication with Low Latency. In Proceedings of the 21st Middleware Conference (Middleware '20), pages 14–28, Delft, 7–11 December 2020. (BibTeX, Extended version)
PaPoC 2020	Michael Eischer, Benedikt Straßner, and Tobias Distler. Low-Latency Geo-Replicated State Machines with Guaranteed Writes. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '20), Heraklion, 27 April 2020. (BibTeX)
FB-SYS 2019	Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler. Efficient Checkpointing in Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems. In Tagungsband des FB-SYS Herbsttreffens 2019 (FB-SYS '19), Osnabrück, 21–22 November 2019. (BibTeX)
SRDS 2019	Michael Eischer, Markus Büttner, and Tobias Distler. Deterministic Fuzzy Checkpoints. In Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS '19), pages 153–162, Lyon, 1–4 October 2019. (BibTeX)
PaPoC 2019	Christian Deyerl and Tobias Distler. In Search of a Scalable Raft-based Replication Architecture. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '19), pages 1–7, Dresden, 25 March 2019. (BibTeX)
Computing 2019	Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler. Scalable Byzantine Fault-tolerant State-Machine Replication on Heterogeneous Servers. Computing, 101(2):97–118, 2019. (BibTeX)
DSN 2018	Bijun Li, Nico Weichbrodt, Johannes Behl, Pierre-Louis Aublin, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza. Troxy: Transparent Access to Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems. In Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '18), pages 59–70, Luxembourg City, 25–28 June 2018. (BibTeX)
BCRB 2018	Alysson Bessani, Hans P. Reiser, Marko Vukolić, and Tobias Distler. Workshop on Byzantine Consensus and Resilient Blockchains (BCRB '18). In Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W '18), page 121, Luxembourg City, 25 June 2018. (BibTeX)
BCRB 2018	Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler. Latency-Aware Leader Selection for Geo-Replicated Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Byzantine Consensus and Resilient Blockchains (BCRB '18), pages 140–145, Luxembourg City, 25 June 2018. (BibTeX)
EDCC 2017	Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler. Scalable Byzantine Fault Tolerance on Heterogeneous Servers. In Proceedings of the 13th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC '17), pages 34–41, Geneva, 4–8 September 2017. (BibTeX)
EuroSys 2017	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), pages 222–237, Belgrade, 23–26 April 2017. (BibTeX)
Technical Report	Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza. Hybster – A Highly Parallelizable Protocol for Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Service Replication. Technical report 64440. TU Braunschweig, 2017. (BibTeX)
IEEE TC 2016	Tobias Distler, Christian Cachin, and Rüdiger Kapitza. Resource-efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(9):2807–2819, 2016. (BibTeX)
EDCC 2016	Bijun Li, Wenbo Xu, Muhammad Zeeshan Abid, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza. SAREK: Optimistic Parallel Ordering in Byzantine Fault Tolerance. In Proceedings of the 12th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC '16), pages 77–88, Gothenburg, 5–9 September 2016. (BibTeX)
Middleware 2015	Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza. Consensus-Oriented Parallelization: How to Earn Your First Million. In Proceedings of the 16th Middleware Conference (Middleware '15), pages 173–184, Vancouver, 7–11 December 2015. (BibTeX)
ARM 2015	Christopher Eibel and Tobias Distler. Towards Energy-Proportional State-Machine Replication. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM '15), pages 19–24, Vancouver, 8 December 2015. (BibTeX)
HotDep 2014	Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza. Scalable BFT for Multi-Cores: Actor-based Decomposition and Consensus-oriented Parallelization. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '14), pages 49–54, Broomfield, 5 October 2014. (BibTeX)
EuroSys 2012	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 7th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '12), pages 295–308, Bern, 10–13 April 2012. (BibTeX)
EuroSys 2011	Tobias Distler and Rüdiger Kapitza. Increasing Performance in Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems with On-Demand Replica Consistency. In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '11), pages 91–105, Salzburg, 10–13 April 2011. (BibTeX)
NDSS 2011	Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza, Ivan Popov, Hans P. Reiser, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. SPARE: Replicas on Hold. In Proceedings of the 18th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '11), pages 407–420, San Diego, 6–9 February 2011. (BibTeX)
SICHERHEIT 2010	Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza, and Hans P. Reiser. State Transfer for Hypervisor-Based Proactive Recovery of Heterogeneous Replicated Services. In Proceedings of the 5th "Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit" Conference (SICHERHEIT '10), pages 61–72, Berlin, 5–7 October 2010. (BibTeX)
BFTW³ 2009	Rüdiger Kapitza, Tobias Distler, and Hans P. Reiser. Practical Intrusion-tolerance in the Cloud. Presented at the Workshop on Theory and Practice of Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFTW³ '09), Elche, 22 September 2009.
MAI 2009	Hans P. Reiser, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza. Functional Decomposition and Interactions in Hybrid Intrusion-tolerant Systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Middleware-Application Interaction (MAI '09), pages 7–12, Lisbon, 12 June 2009. (BibTeX)
Middleware 2008 (Poster)	Alysson Bessani, Hans P. Reiser, Paulo Sousa, Ilir Gashi, Vladimir Stankovic, Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza, Alessandro Daidone, and Rafael Obelheiro. FOREVER: Fault/intrusiOn REmoVal through Evolution & Recovery. In Proceedings of the Middleware 2008 Conference Companion (Middleware '08), pages 99–101, Leuven, 3–5 December 2008. (BibTeX)
WRAITS 2008	Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza, and Hans P. Reiser. Efficient State Transfer for Hypervisor-Based Proactive Recovery. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS '08), pages 7–12, Glasgow, 1 April 2008. (BibTeX)

Energy-Aware Execution Environments

DAIS 2018 (Best Paper)	Christopher Eibel, Christian Gulden, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, and Tobias Distler. Strome: Energy-Aware Data-Stream Processing. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS '18), pages 40–57, Madrid, 18–20 June 2018. (BibTeX)
IC2E 2018	Christopher Eibel, Thao-Nguyen Do, Robert Meißner, and Tobias Distler. Empya: Saving Energy in the Face of Varying Workloads. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E '18), pages 134–140, Orlando, 17–20 April 2018. (BibTeX)
Technical Report	Christopher Eibel, Thao-Nguyen Do, Robert Meißner, and Tobias Distler. Empya: An Energy-aware Middleware Platform for Dynamic Applications. Technical Report CS-2018-01, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2018. (BibTeX)

Efficient Distributed Coordination

DSN 2017	Rainer Schiekofer, Johannes Behl, and Tobias Distler. Agora: A Dependable High-Performance Coordination Service for Multi-Cores. In Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '17), pages 333–344, Denver, 26–29 June 2017. (BibTeX)
EuroSys 2015	Tobias Distler, Christopher Bahn, Alysson Bessani, Frank Fischer, and Flavio Junqueira. Extensible Distributed Coordination. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '15), pages 143–158, Bordeaux, 21–24 April 2015. (BibTeX)
SDMCMM 2012	Tobias Distler, Frank Fischer, Rüdiger Kapitza, and Siqi Ling. Enhancing Coordination in Cloud Infrastructures with an Extendable Coordination Service. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Secure and Dependable Middleware for Cloud Monitoring and Management (SDMCMM '12), pages 1–6, Montreal, 4 December 2012. (BibTeX)
SSS 2012	Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza. DQMP: A Decentralized Protocol to Enforce Global Quotas in Cloud Environments. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS '12), pages 217–231, Toronto, 1–4 October 2012. (BibTeX)

Energy-Aware Real-Time Systems

ECRTS 2018 (Outstanding Paper)	Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Whole-System Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems. In Proceedings of the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS '18), pages 24:1–24:25, Barcelona, 3–6 July 2018. (BibTeX)
ECRTS 2018 (Outstanding Paper)	Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Whole-system WCEC Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems (Artifact). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series, 4(2):7:1–7:4, 2018. (BibTeX)
WCET 2018	Christian Eichler, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, Peter Wägemann, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. TASKers: A Whole-System Generator for Benchmarking Real-Time-System Analyses. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET '18), pages 6:1–6:12, Barcelona, 3 July 2018. (BibTeX)
ACM TECS 2017	Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Heiko Janker, Phillip Raffeck, Volkmar Sieh, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Operating Energy-Neutral Real-Time Systems. In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 17(1):11:1–11:25, 2017. (BibTeX)
RTAS 2017	Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Christian Eichler, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Benchmark Generation for Timing Analysis. In Proceedings of the 23rd Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '17), pages 319–330, Pittsburgh, 18–21 April 2017. (BibTeX)
RTAS 2017	Christian Eichler, Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Demo Abstract: Tooling Support for Benchmarking Timing Analysis. In Proceedings of the 23rd Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '17), pages 159–160, Pittsburgh, 18 April 2017. (BibTeX)
RTSS 2016 (Work in Progress)	Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Phillip Raffeck, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Poster Abstract: Towards Code Metrics for Benchmarking Timing Analysis. In Proceedings of the 37th Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS '16), page 369, Porto, 29 November – 2 December 2016. (BibTeX)
RTSS 2016 (Work in Progress)	Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Phillip Raffeck, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Towards Code Metrics for Benchmarking Timing Analysis. In Proceedings of the 37th Real-Time Systems Symposium Work-in-Progress Session (RTSS WiP '16), Porto, 30 November 2016. (BibTeX)
RTAS 2016	Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Heiko Janker, Phillip Raffeck, and Volkmar Sieh. A Kernel for Energy-Neutral Real-Time Systems with Mixed Criticalities. In Proceedings of the 22nd Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '16), pages 25–36, Vienna, 11–14 April 2016. (BibTeX)
ECRTS 2015	Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Timo Hönig, Heiko Janker, Rüdiger Kapitza, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Worst-Case Energy Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of the 27th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS '15), pages 105–114, Lund, 7–10 July 2015. (BibTeX)
WCET 2015	Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Timo Hönig, Volkmar Sieh, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. GenE: A Benchmark Generator for WCET Analysis. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET '15), pages 31–40, Lund, 7 July 2015. (BibTeX)

Habilitation & Dissertation

Habilitation	Tobias Distler. Resource-Aware System Software for Replicated Services. Habilitation, 2021. (BibTeX, Paper version)
Dissertation	Tobias Distler. Resource-efficient Fault and Intrusion Tolerance. Dissertation, 2014. (BibTeX)
GIDiss 2014	Tobias Distler. Ressourceneffiziente Fehler- und Einbruchstoleranz. Summary of the dissertation (in German). In Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2014, pages 71–80, 2015. Presented at the Kolloquium zum GI-Dissertationspreis 2014, Dagstuhl, 10–13 May 2015. (BibTeX)

Miscellaneous

Middleware 2020	Tobias Distler. Report from the Artifact Evaluation Chair. In Proceedings of the 21st Middleware Conference (Middleware '20), Delft, 7–11 December 2020. (BibTeX)
CloudCP 2012	Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler, Florian Heisig, Rüdiger Kapitza, Matthias Schunter. Providing Fault-tolerant Execution of Web-service-based Workflows within Clouds. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP '12), pages 39–44, Bern, 10 April 2012. (BibTeX)
HotDep 2010	Rüdiger Kapitza, Matthias Schunter, Christian Cachin, Klaus Stengel, and Tobias Distler. Storyboard: Optimistic Deterministic Multithreading. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '10), pages 1–6, Vancouver, 3 October 2010. (BibTeX)