publications

2026

1. VLDB 2026

   Fides: Scalable Censorship-Resistant DAG Consensus via Trusted Components

   Shaokang Xie, Dakai Kang, Hanzheng Lyu, Jianyu Niu, and Mohammad Sadoghi

   In Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2026), Boston, MA, USAAccepted; attending and presenting in Boston, MA , 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML Poster

   @inproceedings{xie2026fides,
     title = {Fides: Scalable Censorship-Resistant DAG Consensus via Trusted Components},
     author = {Xie, Shaokang and Kang, Dakai and Lyu, Hanzheng and Niu, Jianyu and Sadoghi, Mohammad},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2026)},
     year = {2026},
     location = {Boston, MA, USA},
   }

2. arXiv

   Cassandra: Consensus with Partial Progress via Robust Partitionable View Synchronization

   Shaokang Xie, Dakai Kang, Junchao Chen, Suyash Gupta, Daniel P. Hughes, and Mohammad Sadoghi

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02856Preprint available , Jul 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @article{xie2026cassandra,
     title = {Cassandra: Consensus with Partial Progress via Robust Partitionable View Synchronization},
     author = {Xie, Shaokang and Kang, Dakai and Chen, Junchao and Gupta, Suyash and Hughes, Daniel P. and Sadoghi, Mohammad},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02856},
     year = {2026},
     month = jul,
   }

3. IEEE ICDE’26

   Hydra: Breaking the Global Ordering Barrier in Multi-BFT Consensus

   Hanzheng Lyu, Shaokang Xie, Jianyu Niu, Mohammad Sadoghi, Yinqian Zhang, Cong Wang, Ivan Beschastnikh, and Chen Feng

   In Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{lyu2026hydra,
     title = {Hydra: Breaking the Global Ordering Barrier in Multi-BFT Consensus},
     author = {Lyu, Hanzheng and Xie, Shaokang and Niu, Jianyu and Sadoghi, Mohammad and Zhang, Yinqian and Wang, Cong and Beschastnikh, Ivan and Feng, Chen},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. ACM EuroSys’25

   Ladon: High-Performance Multi-BFT Consensus via Dynamic Global Ordering

   Shaokang Xie^*, Hanzheng Lyu^*, Jianyu Niu, Chen Feng, Yinqian Zhang, and Ivan Beschastnikh

   In Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2025

   DOI Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{xie2025ladon,
     title = {Ladon: High-Performance Multi-BFT Consensus via Dynamic Global Ordering},
     author = {Xie, Shaokang and Lyu, Hanzheng and Niu, Jianyu and Feng, Chen and Zhang, Yinqian and Beschastnikh, Ivan},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys)},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1145/3689031.3696102},
   }

2. IEEE ICDE’25

   Orthrus: Accelerating Multi-BFT Consensus through Concurrent Partial Ordering of Transactions

   Shaokang Xie^*, Hanzheng Lyu^*, Jianyu Niu, Mohammad Sadoghi, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yinqian Zhang, and Chen Feng

   In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2025

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{xie2025orthrus,
     title = {Orthrus: Accelerating Multi-BFT Consensus through Concurrent Partial Ordering of Transactions},
     author = {Xie, Shaokang and Lyu, Hanzheng and Niu, Jianyu and Sadoghi, Mohammad and Beschastnikh, Ivan and Zhang, Yinqian and Feng, Chen},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2023

1. EAI SecureComm’23

   Byzantine Protocols with Asymptotically Optimal Communication Complexity

   Hanzheng Lyu, Shaokang Xie, Jianyu Niu, and Chen Feng

   In Proceedings of the 19th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2023

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{lyu2023byzantine,
     title = {Byzantine Protocols with Asymptotically Optimal Communication Complexity},
     author = {Lyu, Hanzheng and Xie, Shaokang and Niu, Jianyu and Feng, Chen},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)},
     year = {2023},
   }