The program has been updated on September 07, 2026.
All times are in the CET timezone.
All paper presentations will be 20 minutes with Q&A included.
Tuesday, 22 Sep
08:00 Registration
08:30 Opening Remarks
09:00 Keynotes with Giorgio Giacinto (Cybersecurity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Session 1 – Privacy-Preserving & Secure Federated Learning (Chair: Sara Bouchenak)
- Rethinking Privacy-Preserving Fine-Tuning via High-Throughput Oblivious Dataset Synthesis
- TUNE-DPFL Adaptive Noise Calibration for Differentially Private Federated Learning under Data Heterogeneity and Dynamic Participation
- Communication-Efficient Secure Aggregation in Decentralized Learning
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Session 2 – FL: Robustness, Attacks & Data Quality (Chair: Sebastien Tixeuil)
- Federated Learning Data Selection: Revealing the Hidden Dangers on Heterogeneous FL Systems
- ACGMI-FL: Trajectory-Guided Model Inversion Attacks in Federated Learning
- Communication Efficient Semi-Supervised DFL via Quality-Aware Topology Construction in Edge Networks
- FedCAR: Coordinated Signal Reconstruction for Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning under Differential Privacy
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Session 3 – Cyber-Physical & IoT Systems (TBD)
- Graph Optimization Based Detection of Stealthy Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms
- Assessing the Effect of Timing Faults in Edge AI Accelerators via Driver-Level Fault Injection
- Knox: Fortifying Smart Spaces With Safety Guarantees
- FortiFed: Fortifying Federated Learning Against Poisoning Attacks under Non-IID Data and High-Proportion Adversaries
Wednesday, 23 Sep
08:00 Registration
09:00 Keynote with Sonia Ben Mokhtar (Towards Reliable and Secure Decentralized Machine Learning)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Session 4 – Distributed Algorithms & Theory (Chair: Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna)
- Speculative Self-stabilizing Mutual Exclusion and Other Problems in Highly Dynamic Networks
- On the Decidability of Distributed Tasks with Output Sets under Asynchrony and Any Number of Crashes
- Lock-free Asynchronously Distributed Linked Lists
- POLLEN: Byzantine-Tolerant Latency Reporting in Partially Connected Networks
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Session 5 – Systems Tooling: Testing, Benchmarking & Monitoring (Chair: Valerio Schiavoni)
- JeSsi-Bench: A Practical and Extensible Benchmarking Tool for JavaScript Engines
- LLM-Based Robustness Testing of Microservice Applications: An Empirical Study
- Extending MadSim for Deterministic Byzantine Simulation
- Real-Time Anomaly Detection with Contextual Log Parsing in Distributed Systems
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Session 6 – Storage Systems & Erasure Coding (Chair: TBD)
- Coupling Local and Global Parities for Efficient and Reliable Wide-Stripe Storage Systems
- XORbit: Bypassing Update and Repair Penalties in Erasure-Coded KV Stores via Dynamic Decoupling
- Aqueduct: Combining Rapid Data Migration and Smooth Elasticity in Key-Value Stores
- Enabling Differentiated QoS Degradation for Replicated Databases under Failures
Thursday, 24 Sep
08:00 Registration
09:00 Keynote with Martin Kleppmann (Byzantine Eventual Consistency for Reliable Local-first Software)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Session 7 – Blockchain Protocols, Sharding & Payment Channels (Chair: Sara Tucci Piergiovanni)
- Zydra: Unlocking Concurrency in NIZK-Based Smart Contracts
- Baker: A Privacy-Preserving, NIZK-free and Efficient Payment Channel Hub Supporting Bidirectional Channels
- HyperShard: A Hypergraph-Based State Sharding Protocol for Smart Contract Transactions in Blockchain
- Beyond Single-Threshold Security: A Multi-Threshold Characterization of Byzantine Reliable Broadcast Protocols
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Session 8 – Networking & Edge Systems (Chair: TBD)
- BurstTrack: Real-Time Low-Rate DDoS Detection via Temporal and Causal Flow Analysis
- CDN Tsunami: Exploiting HTTP/3-HTTP/1.1 Conversion for DoS Attacks
- Cerberus: Latency-Aware Scheduling with Graceful Degradation for Constrained Edge Infrastructures
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Session 9 – Security, Privacy Attacks & Defenses (Chair: Silvia Bonomi)
- HyPPoComp: Flexible Privacy-Preserving Data Processing in Hybrid Environments
- Auto-MIRES: Automatically Detecting and Recovering Mobile Applications from Intrusions
- From Capabilities to Compromises: A Systematic Study of Host-Boundary Enforcement in CLI Coding Agents
- TARA: A Two-Step Gradient-Based Reconstruction Attack against Federated Graph Classification
16:30 Closing Remarks