Publications

2026

1. Fides: Secure and Scalable Asynchronous DAG Consensus via Trusted Components

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

   VLDB 2026

   Presented at VLDB 2026 in Boston, MA

   arXiv Poster Slides

   BibTeX

   @inproceedings{xie2026fides,
     title = {Fides: Secure and Scalable Asynchronous 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. Cassandra: Consensus with Partial Progress via Robust Partitionable View Synchronization

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

   VLDB 2027

   Accepted at VLDB 2027

   arXiv

   BibTeX

   @unpublished{xie2026cassandra,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},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Accepted for VLDB 2027; publication details forthcoming}
   }
   

3. 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

   ICDE 2026

   Presented at IEEE ICDE 2026

   arXiv Poster Slides

   BibTeX

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

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

   EuroSys 2025

   DOI

   BibTeX

   @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. 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

   ICDE 2025

   Paper

   BibTeX

   @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. Byzantine Protocols with Asymptotically Optimal Communication Complexity

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

   SecureComm 2023

   Paper

   BibTeX

   @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},
   }