Distributed Systems Group

The Distributed Systems Group is part of the Department of Computer Science and since October 2025 headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Distler. Established among the first groups when the WIAI faculty was founded, and initially under the name Chair for Practical Computer Science, the group is dedicated to distributed systems for over 20 years.

Selected Publications

SRDS 2025

Laura Lawniczak and Tobias Distler
Hard Shell, Reliable Core: Improving Resilience in Replicated Systems with Selective Hybridization

ARES 2025

Ines Messadi, Markus Elias Gerber, Tobias Distler, and Rüdiger Kapitza
TEE-Assisted Recovery and Upgrades for Long-Running BFT Services
Best Paper Nomination

CLOUD 2025

Robin Lichtenthäler and Guido Wirtz
An Experimental Validation of Architectural Measures for Cloud-Native Quality Evaluations

PODC 2024

Diogo Avelãs, Hasan Heydari, Eduardo Alchieri, Tobias Distler, and Alysson Bessani
Probabilistic Byzantine Fault Tolerance
SIGACT Research Highlights Nomination

Middleware 2024

Laura Lawniczak and Tobias Distler
Targeting Tail Latency in Replicated Systems with Proactive Rejection

RTAS 2024

Harald Böhm, Tobias Distler, and Peter Wägemann
TinyBFT: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication for Highly Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems

Cluster Computing 2025

Robin Lichtenthäler and Guido Wirtz
Formulating a Quality Model for Cloud-Native Software Architectures: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations

SOSE 2024

Sebastian Böhm and Guido Wirtz
Towards an API-driven Approach for Universal and Lightweight Cloud-Edge Orchestration

DSN 2023

Tobias Distler, Michael Eischer, and Laura Lawniczak
Micro Replication

CoRR 2023

Alysson Bessani, Miguel Correia, Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza, Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo, and Jiangshan Yu
Vivisecting the Dissection: On the Role of Trusted Components in BFT Protocols

CSUR 2021

Tobias Distler
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant State-Machine Replication from a Systems Perspective

ZEUS 2021

Sebastian Böhm and Guido Wirtz
Profiling Lightweight Container Platforms: MicroK8s and K3s in Comparison to Kubernetes

Middleware 2020

Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler
Resilient Cloud-based Replication with Low Latency
Best Student Paper

Teaching

DSG-Sem-B/MSeminar: Large-Scale Data-Center InfrastructuresVC course
DSG-Proj-B/MProject: Remote Procedure CallsVC course