Publications

(* indicates a student under my supervision)

Selected Recent Publications

Pallas and Aegis: Rollback Resilience in TEE-Aided Blockchain Consensus

J. Decouchant, D. Kozhaya, V. Rahli, J. Yu

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2026

OneShot: View-Adapting Streamlined BFT with TEEs

J. Decouchant, D. Kozhaya, V. Rahli, J. Yu

IPDPS 2024

Tolerating Disasters with Hierarchical Consensus

W. Yahyaoui, J. Bruneau-Queyreix, M. Voelp, J. Decouchant

INFOCOM 2024

Damysus: Streamlined BFT Consensus Leveraging Trusted Components

J. Decouchant, D. Kozhaya, V. Rahli, J. Yu

EuroSys 2022

Practical Byzantine Reliable Broadcast on Partially-Connected Networks

S. Bonomi, J. Decouchant, G. Farina, V. Rahli, S. Tixeuil

ICDCS 2021

RepuCoin: Your Reputation is Your Power

J. Yu, D. Kozhaya, J. Decouchant, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

IEEE Transactions on Computers 2018

Conference Proceedings

Robust and Automated Reconfiguration of Byzantine Wide-Area Replication

R. Chotkan*, B. Nasrulin, J. Pouwelse, J. Decouchant

DSN 2026

Pallas and Aegis: Rollback Resilience in TEE-Aided Blockchain Consensus

J. Decouchant, D. Kozhaya, V. Rahli, J. Yu

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2026

Automated Network-Level Fault Injection Testing of Microservice Architectures

D. Flipse*, H. Simsek, J. Decouchant, B. Kulahcioglu Ozkan

ICSE 2026

Dynamic Topology Optimization for Non-IID Data in Decentralized Learning

B. Cox*, A. Ioannou*, J. Decouchant

Big Data 2025

Catalyst: Asynchronous Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning

B. Cox*, A. Mălan, L. Y. Chen, J. Decouchant

Big Data 2025

Go With The Flow: Churn-Tolerant Decentralized Training of Large Language Models

N. Blagoev*, B. Cox*, J. Decouchant, L. Y. Chen

Big Data 2025

Formalizing Rollback Netcodes for Robust and Real-Time Client-Server Architectures

D. Bromberg, J. Decouchant, M. Sourisseau*, F. Taïani

OPODIS 2025

Nomad: Accelerating Geo-distributed Learning with Client Transfers

B. Cox*, L. Y. Chen, J. Decouchant

NCA 2025

NEMO: Faster Parallel Execution for Highly Contended Blockchain Workloads

F. Ezard*, C. U. Ileri, J. Decouchant

BRAINS 2025

STARVESPAM: Mitigating Spam with Local Reputation in Permissionless Blockchains

R. Chotkan*, B. Nasrulin, J. Decouchant, J. Pouwelse

BRAINS 2025

Byzantine-Resilient Federated Computation of Differentially Private Summary Statistics

G. Segalini*, M. Fernandes, J. Decouchant

Middleware 2025

Balancing Fairness and Performance in Multi-User Spark Workloads with Dynamic Scheduling

D. Kazemaks*, L. Versluis, Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, J. Decouchant

SoCC'25

Share Secrets for Privacy. Confidential Forecasting with Vertical Federated Learning

A. Shankar*, L. Chen, J. Decouchant, D. Gkorou, R. Hai

ARES 2025

Mitigating Frontrunning Attacks through Fair and Resilient Transaction Dissemination

W. Yahyaoui*, J. Bruneau-Queyreix, J. Decouchant, M. Völp

DSN 2025

CCBNet: Confidential Collaborative Bayesian Networks Inference

A. Malan*, J. Decouchant, T. Guzella, L. Y. Chen

Financial Cryptography (FC) 2025

MUDGUARD: Taming Malicious Majorities in Federated Learning using Privacy-Preserving Byzantine-Robust Clustering

R. Wang, X. Wang, H. Chen, J. Decouchant, S. Picek, N. Laoutaris, K. Liang

ACM SIGMETRICS 2025

Reliable Communication in Hybrid Authentication and Trust Models

R. Chotkan*, B. Cox*, V. Rahli, J. Decouchant

OPODIS 2024

Asynchronous Multi-Server Federated Learning for Geo-Distributed Clients

Y. Zuo*, B. Cox*, L. Y. Chen, J. Decouchant

Middleware 2024

TabVFL: Improving Latent Representation in Vertical Federated Learning

M. Rashad*, Z. Zhao, J. Decouchant, L. Y. Chen

SRDS 2024

Partition Detection in Byzantine Networks

D. Bromberg, J. Decouchant, M. Sourisseau*, F. Taiani

ICDCS 2024

OneShot: View-Adapting Streamlined BFT with TEEs

J. Decouchant, D. Kozhaya, V. Rahli, J. Yu

IPDPS 2024

Tolerating Disasters with Hierarchical Consensus

W. Yahyaoui, J. Bruneau-Queyreix, M. Voelp, J. Decouchant

INFOCOM 2024

LØ: An Accountable Base Layer for Permissionless Blockchains

B. Nasrulin, G. Ishmaev, J. Decouchant, J. Pouwelse

Middleware 2023

Liveness Checking of the HotStuff Protocol Family

J. Decouchant, B. Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Y. Zhou*

PRDC 2023

Leveraging the Verifier’s Dilemma to Double Spend in Bitcoin

T. Cao*, J. Decouchant, J. Yu

FC 2023

I-GWAS: Privacy-Preserving Interdependent Genome-Wide Association Studies

T. Pascoal*, J. Decouchant, A. Boutet, M. Völp

PETS 2023

Aergia: Leveraging Heterogeneity in Federated Learning Systems

B. Cox*, L. Y. Chen, J. Decouchant

Middleware 2022

Secure and Distributed Assessment of Privacy-Preserving Releases of GWAS

T. Pascoal*, J. Decouchant, M. Völp

Middleware 2022

SyncPCN/PSyncPCN: Payment Channel Networks without Blockchain Synchrony

O. Ersoy, J. Decouchant, S. Prabhu Kumble, S. Roos

ACM AFT 2022

Distributed Attestation Revocation in Self-Sovereign Identity

R. Chotkan*, J. Decouchant, J. Pouwelse

IEEE LCN 2022

AGIC: Approximate Gradient Inversion Attack on Federated Learning

J. Xu*, C. Hong, J. Huang, L. Y. Chen, J. Decouchant

SRDS 2022

Damysus: Streamlined BFT Consensus Leveraging Trusted Components

J. Decouchant, D. Kozhaya, V. Rahli, J. Yu

EuroSys 2022

Characterizing the Impact of Network Delay on Bitcoin Mining

T. Cao*, J. Decouchant, J. Yu, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

SRDS 2021

Threat Adaptive Byzantine Fault Tolerant State-Machine Replication

D. Simões Silva, R. Graczyk, J. Decouchant, M. Völp, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

SRDS 2021

Practical Byzantine Reliable Broadcast on Partially-Connected Networks

S. Bonomi, J. Decouchant, G. Farina, V. Rahli, S. Tixeuil

ICDCS 2021

DyPS: Dynamic, Private and Secure GWAS

T. Pascoal*, J. Decouchant, A. Boutet, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

PETS 2021

Exploring the Monero Peer-to-Peer Network

T. Cao*, J. Yu, J. Decouchant, X. Luo, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

FC 2020

P3LS: Plausible Deniability for Practical Privacy-Preserving Live Streaming

J. Decouchant, A. Boutet, J. Yu, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

SRDS 2019

MaskAl: Privacy Preserving Alignment of Masked Reads until Intel SGX

C. Lambert*, M. Fernandes*, J. Decouchant, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

SRDS 2018

Cloud-Assisted Read Alignment and Privacy

M. Fernandes*, J. Decouchant, F. Couto, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

PACBB 2017

PAG: Privacy and Accountability in Gossip

J. Decouchant, S. Ben Mokhtar, A. Petit, V. Quéma

ICDCS 2016

Acting: Accurate Freerider Tracking in Gossip

J. Decouchant, S. Ben Mokhtar, V. Quéma

SRDS 2014

Large Pages May Be Harmful on NUMA Systems

F. Gaud, B. Lepers, J. Decouchant, J. Funston, A. Fedorova, V. Quéma

Usenix ATC 2014

Journal Articles

Light-HIDRA: Scalable and Decentralized Resource Orchestration in Fog-IoT Environments

C. Núñez-Gómez et al.

Future Generation Computer Systems (2024)

Trusted Hardware-Assisted Leaderless Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus

L. Zhao*, J. Decouchant et al.

IEEE TDSC 2024

T-AKA: Authenticating Cellular-Connected IoT Devices in Massive IoT Applications

A. Esfahani, J. Decouchant, G. Mantas, S. Mumtaz, J. Rodriguez, M. Völp, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 2021

PISTIS: From a Word-of-Mouth to a Gentleman's Agreement

D. Kozhaya, J. Decouchant et al.

IEEE TPDS 2021

DNA-SeAl: Sensitivity Levels to Optimize the Performance of Privacy-Preserving DNA Alignment

M. Fernandes* et al.

IEEE JBHI 2019

RT-ByzCast: Byzantine-Resilient Real-Time Reliable Broadcast

D. Kozhaya, J. Decouchant, P. Esteves-Veríssimo

IEEE Transactions on Computers 2018

Accurate filtering of privacy-sensitive information in raw genomic data

J. Decouchant, M. Fernandes* et al.

Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2018

Workshops

Includes papers at WAFL@ECML PKDD 2023, GenoPri 2020, Eurosys DW 2018, BCRB 2018, WSP 2017, and various security protocol workshops (2016-2018).

Chapters

Security, privacy, and trust management in DNA computing

J. Decouchant et al.

Advances in Computers, Elsevier (2022)

Patents

  • Confidentiality-Preserving Collaborative Model for Deriving Information on a Production System (2023D00819), 2023.
  • Vertically Federated Training of a Machine Learning Model (2023P00300EP01), 2023.
  • Distributed privacy preserving DNA alignment (LU100449), 2017.
  • Fault and intrusion tolerance for OS instances (LU100069), 2017.

Technical Reports

PriLok: Citizen-protecting distributed epidemic tracing

J. Decouchant et al.

Arxiv 2020