Publications

Preprint

  1. arXiv
    Babylon: Reusing Bitcoin Mining to Enhance Proof-of-Stake Security
    Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse, Fisher Yu, and Sreeram Kannan
    PDF
  2. Preprint
    Goldfish: Peer selection using Matrix completion in unstructured P2P network
    Bowen Xue, Yifan Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, and Sreeram Kannan
  3. ePrint
    Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness inByzantine Consensus
    Mahimna Kelkar, Soubhik Deb, Sishan Long, Ari Juels, and Sreeram Kannan
    PDF
  4. Preprint
    Player-Replaceability and Forensic Support are Two Sides of the Same (Crypto) Coin
    Peiyao Sheng, Gerui Wang, Kartik Nayak, Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath

2022

  1. MobiHoc
    Optimal Bootstrapping of PoW Blockchains under 99% Adversarial Mining Power
    Ranvir Rana, Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    Accepted in ACM MobiHoc 2022
  2. APKC
    Order-Fair Consensus in the Permissionless Setting
    Mahimna Kelkar, Soubhik Deb, and Sreeram Kannan
    In ACM on ASIA Public-Key Cryptography Workshop 2022
    Best Paper Award
    PDF
  3. CCS
    Minotaur: Multi-Resource Blockchain Consensus
    Matthias Fitzi, Xuechao Wang, Sreeram Kannan, Aggelos Kiayias, Nikos Leonardos, Pramod Viswanath, and Gerui Wang
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022
    PDF
  4. Sigmetrics
    Free2Shard: Adaptive-adversary-resistant sharding via Dynamic Self Allocation
    Ranvir Rana, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, and Pramod Viswanath
    In ACM Sigmetrics 2022
    PDF VIDEO
  5. NDSI
    DispersedLedger: High-Throughput Byzantine Consensus on Variable Bandwidth Networks
    Lei Yang, Seo Jin Park, Mohammad Alizadeh, Sreeram Kannan, and David Tse
    In Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation 2022 (NDSI 2022)
    PDF

2021

  1. CCS
    Securing Parallel-chain Protocols under Variable Mining Power
    Xuechao Wang, Viswa Virinchi Muppirala, Lei Yang, Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021
    PDF
  2. CCS
    BFT Protocol Forensics
    Peiyao Sheng, Gerui Wang, Kartik Nayak, Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021
    Best Paper Award Runner-Up
    PDF
  3. FC
    Blockchain CAP Theorem Allows User-Dependent Adaptivity and Finality
    Suryanarayana Sankagiri, Xuechao Wang, Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021
    PDF VIDEO
  4. FC
    ACeD: Scalable Data Availability Oracle
    Peiyao Sheng, Bowen Xue, Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021
    PDF CODE VIDEO
  5. FC
    PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, without the Work
    Soubhik Deb, Sreeram Kannan, and David Tse
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021
    PDF VIDEO

2020

  2. CCS
    Everything is a Race and Nakamoto Always Wins
    Amir Dembo, Sreeram Kannan, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse, Pramod Viswanath, Xuechao Wang, and Ofer Zeitouni
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2020
    PDF
  3. PODC
    Perigee: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains
    Yifan Mao, Soubhik Deb, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Sreeram Kannan, and Kannan Srinivasan
    In the Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing 2020
    PDF CODE VIDEO
  4. TIFS
    PolyShard: Coded Sharding Achieves Linearly Scaling Efficiency and Security Simultaneously
    Songze Li, Mingchao Yu, Chien-Sheng Yang, Amir Salman Avestimehr Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2020
    PDF
  5. FC
    Coded merkle tree: Solving data availability attacks in blockchains
    Mingchao Yu, Saeid Sahraei, Songze Li, Salman Avestimehr Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2020
    PDF CODE

2019

  1. CCS
    Prism: Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits
    Vivek Bagaria, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, Giulia Fanti, and Pramod Viswanath
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2019
    PDF CODE VIDEO
  2. PODC
    Coded State Machine - Scaling State Machine Execution under Byzantine Faults
    Songze Li, Saeid Sahraei, Mingchao Yu, Salman Avestimehr, Sreeram Kannan, and Pramod Viswanath
    In the Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing 2019
    PDF