Lectures Publications Theses Events

2021

Nicolas Gordillo, Bruno Rodrigues, Christian Killer, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Digital Mobile Onboarding in Switzerland - a Hands-on Experience", IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021); May, 2021. http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/im/im2021exp/211425.pdf

2020

Sina Rafati Niya, Fabio Maddaloni, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Toward Scalable Blockchains with Transaction Aggregation", Decentralized Applications (DAPP) with Blockchain, DLT and Crypto-Currencies; March, 2020.
Cesare Pautasso, Olaf Zimmermann, Liming Zhu, Thomas Bocek, Xabier Larrucea, "Unchain or Block the Hype? : Decision Drivers, Success Factors, and Perspectives for Blockchain Adoption", IEEE Software; 2020. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9173636

2019

Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Lieferketten dank Blockchain überwachen", April, 2019. https://dievolkswirtschaft.ch/de/2019/04/bocek-05-2019/
Sina Rafati Niya, Eryk Schiller, Ile Cepilov, Fabio Maddaloni, Timo Surbeck, Kürsat Aydinli, Thomas Bocek, "Adaptation of Proof-of-Stake-based Blockchains for IoT Data Streams", ICBC 2019, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency - Demo; May, 2019.
Andreas Schaufelbühl, Sina Rafati Niya, Lucas Pelloni, Severin Wullschleger, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, Lawrence Rajendran, "EUREKA -- A Minimal Operational Prototype of a Blockchain-based Rating and Publishing System", ICBC 2019, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency - Demo; May, 2019.
Sina Rafati Niya, Lucas Pelloni, Severin Wullschleger, Andreas Schaufelbühl, Thomas Bocek, Lawrence Rajendran, Burkhard Stiller, "A Blockchain-based Scientific Publishing Platform", ICBC 2019, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency; May, 2019.
Roman Blum, Thomas Bocek, "Superlight - A Permissionless, Light-client Only Blockchain with Self-Contained Proofs and BLS Signatures", Man2Block 2019, International Workshop on Managing and Managed by Blockchain; April, 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02213

2018

Bruno Rodrigues, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "The Use of Blockchains: Application-Driven Analysis of Applicability", Blockchain Technology: Platforms, Tools and Use Cases, Volume 111 (Advances in Computers); September, 2018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S006524581830024X
Sina Rafati Niya, Florian Schüpfer, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "A Peer-to-peer Purchase and Rental Smart Contract-based Application (PuRSCA)", it- Information Technology; October, 2018. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/itit.ahead-of-print/itit-2017-0036/itit-2017-0036.xml
Sina Rafati Niya, Florian Schüpfer, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Demo- Setting up Flexible and Light Weight Trading Contracts with Enhanced User Privacy Using Smart Contracts", Cognitive Management in a Cyber World; April, 2018. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/Rafati/BTSCA.pdf
Sina Rafati Niya, Sanjiv S. Jha, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Design and Implementation of an Automated and Decentralized Pollution Monitoring System with Blockchains, Smart Contracts, and LoRaWAN", Cognitive Management in a Cyber World; April, 2018. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/Rafati/BPMS.pdf

2017

Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Smart Contracts - Blockchains in the Wings", Digital Marketplaces Unleashed; January, 2017.
Thomas Bocek, Sina Rafati, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller, "CoinBlesk - A Real-time, Bitcoin-based Payment Approach and App", ERCIM News: Blockchain Engineering; July, 2017. https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en110/special/coinblesk-a-real-time-bitcoin-based-payment-approach-and-app
Bruno Rodrigues, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Enabling a Cooperative, Multi-domain DDoS Defense by a Blockchain Signaling System (BloSS)", \lbrack Demonstration Track\rbrack ; October, 2017. http://www.ieeelcn.org/lcn42demos/1570382330.pdf
Bruno Rodrigues, Thomas Bocek, Andri Lareida, David Hausheer, Sina Rafati, Burkhard Stiller, "A Blockchain-Based Architecture for Collaborative DDoS Mitigation with Smart Contracts", Security of Networks and Services in an All-Connected World; July, 2017.
Bruno Rodrigues, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Multi-domain DDoS Mitigation Based on Blockchains", Security of Networks and Services in an All-Connected World; July, 2017. http://www.aims-conference.org/2017/10.1007\_978-3-319-60774-0.pdf
Thomas Bocek, Bruno Rodrigues, Tim Strasser, Burkhard Stiller, "Blockchains Everywhere - A Use-case of Blockchains in the Pharma Supply Chain", Management in the Cloud and 5G Era; May, 2017. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/bocek/extern/publications/im2017\_final.pdf
Bruno Rodrigues, Thomas Bocek, David Hausheer, Andri Lareida, Sina Rafati, Burkhard Stiller, "Blockchain-based Architecture for Collaborative DDoS Mitigation using Smart Contracts", ForDigital Blockchain; February, 2017. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/rodrigues/extern/publications/cooperativeblockchainddos.pdf
Sina Rafati niya, Florian Schüpfer, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "A Peer-to-Peer Purchase and Rental SmartContract-based Application", IFI-TecReport No. 2017.04; November, 2017. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/Rafati/Purchase-Rental-APP-SC.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Corinna Schmitt, Thomas Bocek, Sina Rafati, Andri Lareida, Patrick Poullie, Bruno Rodrigues, Lisa Kristiana, David Hausherr, "Communication Systems X", IFI-TecReport No. 2017.03; August, 2017. http://www.csg.uzh.ch/csg/dam/jcr:53f9493e-01d2-451c-ac20-afd58340b867/IFI-2017-03.pdf

2016

Joel Scheuner, Genc Mazlami, Dominik Schöni, Sebastian Stephan, Aless Carli, ro De, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Probr - A Generic and Passive WiFi Tracking System", 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN); November, 2016.
Andri Lareida, Daniel Meier, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Towards Path Quality Metrics for Overlay Networks", 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN); November, 2016. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/lareida/Extern/Publications/localityMetrics.pdf
Thomas Bocek, Christian Killer, Christos Tsiaras, Burkhard Stiller, "An NFC Relay Attack with Off-the-shelf Hardware and Software", Vol. 9701 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science; June, 2016.
Andri Lareida, Sebastian Schrepfer, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Overlay Network Measurements with Distribution Evolution and Geographical Visualization", IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium; April, 2016. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/lareida/Extern/Publications/violaNOMS16.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, "Blockchains and Smart Contracts - A Valuable Alternative for Distributed Data Bases?", FUTURIUM; November, 2016. https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/blockchains-and-smart-contracts-valuable-alternative-distributed-data-bases-0
Joel Scheuner, Genc Mazlami, Dominik Schöni, Sebastian Stephan, Aless Carli, ro De, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Probr Demonstration - Visualizing Passive WiFi Data", The 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN); November, 2016.
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Corinna Schmitt, Patrick Poullie, Lisa Kristiana, Andri Lareida, "Communication Systems IX", IFI-TecReport No. IFI-2016.05; June, 2016. https://cmsauth.uzh.ch/csg/dam/jcr:5769e4d8-013b-4bda-8d42-71e3a3f44192/IFI-2016.05.pdf

2015

Patrick Poullie, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Deploying an NFC-based Inventory System: A Case Study", ERCIM News - Special Issue: The Internet of Things and The Web of Things; April, 2015. http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN101/EN101-web.pdf
Thomas Bocek, Nico Rutishauser, Burkhard Stiller, "Energy-efficient Overlay Networks for Mobile Devices with Buffered Relaying and Push Notifications", 40th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN); October, 2015.
Andri Lareida, Thomas Bocek, Maxat Pernebayev, Burkhard Stiller, "Automatic network configuration with dynamic churn prediction", 2015 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM); May, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INM.2015.7140312

2014

Guilherme Sperb Machado, Thomas Bocek, Alex Filitz, er, Burkhard Stiller, "Measuring Interactivity and Geographical Closeness of Online Social Network Users in Support of Social Recommendation Systems", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM); November, 2014. http://publication.pics.mu/papers/Measuring\_OSN\_Interactivity\_and\_GeoCloseness\_CNSM2014.pdf
Ioanna Papafili, Krzysztof Wajda, Roman Lapacz, Aless Predieri, ro, Thomas Bocek, Michael Seufert, "An Overview of Application Traffic Management Approaches: Challenges and Potential Extensions", 8th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2014); July, 2014.
Guilherme Sperb Machado, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "PiCsMu: A System to Aggregate Multiple Heterogeneous Cloud Services' Storage", IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium; May, 2014. http://publication.pics.mu/papers/PiCsMu\_Demo\_NOMS2014.pdf
Guilherme Sperb Machado, Thomas Bocek, Alex Filitz, er, Burkhard Stiller, "Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation of Methods to Measure Interactivity and Geographical Closeness of Online Social Network Users in Support of Social Recommendation Systems", IFI-TechReport No. 2014.0003; May, 2014. http://publication.pics.mu/papers/IFI-2014.0003.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Corinna Schmitt, Radhika Garg, Thomas Bocek, Daniel Dönni, Guilherme Sperb Machado, "Internet Economics VIII", IFI-TecReport No. IFI-2014.01; February, 2014. http://www.csg.uzh.ch/teaching/hs13/inteco/extern/IFI-2014.01.pdf

2013

Guilherme Sperb Machado, Thomas Bocek, Michael Ammann, Burkhard Stiller, "A Cloud Storage Overlay to Aggregate Heterogeneous Cloud Services", Local Computer Networks; October, 2013. http://publication.pics.mu/papers/LCN2013\_PiCsMu.pdf
Andri Lareida, Thomas Bocek, Sebastian Golaszewski, Christian Lüthold, Marc Weber, "Box2Box - A P2P-based File-Sharing and Synchronization Application", Peer-to-Peer; September, 2013. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/lareida/Extern/Publications/P2P2013\_demo\_16.pdf
Ioanna Papafili, Thomas Bocek, David Hausheer, Patrick Poullie, Jürgen Rückert, Sersgios Soursos, George Stamoulis, Burkhard Stiller, Krzysztof Wajda, "SMARTenIT Cloud Traffic Management Approach and Architectural Considerations", (FuNeMS 2013); July, 2013.
Andri Lareida, Thomas Bocek, Martin Waldburger, Burkhard Stiller, "RB-Tracker: A Fully Distributed, Replicating, Network-, and Topology-aware P2P CDN", (ManFi 2013); May, 2013. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=\&arnumber=6573164\&isnumber=6572961
Guilherme Sperb Machado, Thomas Bocek, Michael Ammann, Burkhard Stiller, "A Cloud storage overlay to aggregate heterogeneous Cloud services", IFI-TechReport No. 2013.05; May, 2013. https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/machado/extern/publications/IFI-2013.0005.pdf

2012

Fabio V. Hecht, T. Bocek, N. Bär, R. Erdin, B. Kuster, M. Zeeshan, B. Stiller, "Radiommender: P2P On-line Radio with a Distributed Recommender System", Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P'12); September, 2012. http://www.csg.uzh.ch/staff/hecht/publications/p2p12demo.pdf
Fabio V Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Flavio R. Santos, Burkhard Stiller, "Playback Policies for Live and On-Demand P2P Video Streaming", IFIP/TC6 Networking 2012 (NETWORKING 2012); May, 2012. http://www.springerlink.com/content/yt154574wp570825/
Fabio V. Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "A Time-Shifted Video Streaming Approach (LiveShift)", 7th KuVS Workshop On Future Internet; January, 2012.

2011

Fabio V. Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Richard G. Clegg, L, Raul a, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "LiveShift: Mesh-Pull Live and Time-Shifted P2P Video Streaming", Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2011); October, 2011. http://www.csg.uzh.ch/staff/hecht/publications/liveshift-protocol.pdf
Fabio V. Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "B-Tracker: Improving Load Balancing and Efficiency in Distributed P2P Trackers", 11th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P'11); August, 2011. http://www.csg.uzh.ch/staff/hecht/publications/btracker-cr.pdf
Fabio Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "B-Tracker: improving load balancing and efficiency in distributed P2P trackers", IFI Technical Report; April, 2011. http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/pax/index.php/publication/show/id/1646

2010

Fabio Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Richard G. Clegg, L, Raul a, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "LiveShift: Mesh-Pull P2P Live and Time-Shifted Video Streaming", IFI Technical Report; September, 2010. http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/pax/index.php/publication/show/id/1452
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Hecht, Guilherme Machado, Peter Racz, Martin Waldburger (Eds.), "Mobile Systems IV", IFI Technical Report; January, 2010. http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/pax/web/uploads/pdf/publication/1290/ifi-2010\_01-1.pdf

2009

Thomas Bocek, "PeerCollaboration: A Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Application for Large-scale Systems", December, 2009.
Dalibor Peric, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "Brief Announcement: The Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Reliable File System", 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009); November, 2009. http://www.springerlink.com/content/6pj0277u500k065w/
Thomas Bocek, Yehia El-khatib, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "Demonstration of the CompactPSH Incentive Scheme in a Peer-to-Peer Streaming Application", 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009); October, 2009. http://www.csg.uzh.ch/publications/psh2-demo.pdf
Thomas Bocek, Yehia El-khatib, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "CompactPSH: An Efficient Transitive TFT Incentive Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Networks", 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009); October, 2009. http://www.zora.uzh.ch/21054/
Thomas Bocek, Dalibor Peric, Fabio Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "PeerVote: A Decentralized Voting Mechanism for P2P Collaboration Systems", 3rd ACM/IFIP International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2009); July, 2009. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h570280177864528/
Thomas Bocek, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Ela Hunt, Burkhard Stiller, "Mobile P2P Fast Similarity Search", 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC 2009); January, 2009. http://www.zora.uzh.ch/17350/2/Bocek\_2009V.pdf
Dalibor Peric, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "The Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Reliable File System", Second International Workshop on Reliability, Availability, and Security (WRAS 2009); December, 2009. http://www.zora.uzh.ch/21055/
Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "PeerCollaboration", 3nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2009); July, 2009. http://www.springerlink.com/content/y654144r8005n314/
Thomas Bocek, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Dalibor Peric, Burkhard Stiller, "Incentives for Voting-based Quality Control and Document Storage in P2P Collaboration Systems", 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2009); June, 2009. http://www.zora.uzh.ch/19505/2/Hecht.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Hecht, Cristian Morariu, Peter Racz, Andrei Vancea, Martin Waldburger (Eds.), "Communication Systems III", IFI Technical Report; June, 2009. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2009/ifi-2009.03.pdf
Thomas Bocek, Dalibor Peric, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "Towards a Decentralized Voting Mechanism for P2P Collaboration Systems", IFI Technical Report; March, 2009. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2009/ifi-2009.02.pdf

2008

Fabio Victora Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Cristian Morariu, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "LiveShift: Peer-to-peer Live Streaming with Distributed Time-Shifting", Eighth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P'08), Demo Session; September, 2008.
Thomas Bocek, Wang Kun, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Stiller, Burkhard, "PSH: A Private and Shared History-based Incentive Mechanism", 2nd ACM/IFIP International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008); July, 2008.
Thomas Bocek, Ela Hunt, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "Fast Similarity Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks", 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008); April, 2008.
Thomas Bocek, Michael Shann, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, "Game Theoretical Analysis of Incentives for Large-scale, Fully Decentralized Collaboration Networks", Fifth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (Hot-P2P 2008); April, 2008. http://www.zora.uzh.ch/7172/4/2008\_Game\_Theoretical\_AnalysisV.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Peter Racz, Gregor Schaffrath (Eds.), "Mobile Systems III", IFI Technical Report, No. ifi-2008.09; July, 2008. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2008/ifi-2008.09.pdf
David Hausheer, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Victora Hecht, Cristian Morariu, Gregor Schaffrath, Burkhard Stiller (Eds.), "P2P Challenge Task 2008", IFI Technical Report; July, 2008. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2008/ifi-2008.07.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Hecht, Cristian Morariu, Peter Racz, Gregor Schaffrath (Eds.), "Communication Systems II", IFI Technical Report, No. ifi-2008.01; January, 2008. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2008/ifi-2008.01.pdf

2007

Thomas Bocek, Peter Ming, Burkhard Stiller, "Java-based Management of Biometric Data in a Distributed Internet Environment", Jazoon 07 / The International Conference on Java Technology; June, 2007.
Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, "Peer-to-Peer Large-scale Collaborative Storage Networks", AIMS 2007 / Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (Student Paper); June, 2007.
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Peter Ming, Frank Eyermann, Sauerl, Jürgen, Jan Angrabeit, Mark Völkl, Jan-Christian Tylka, "Management of Biometric Data in a Distributed Internet Environment", 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007); May, 2007.
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Hasan, Pascal Kurtansky, Cristian Morariu, Peter Racz, Gregor Schaffrath, Martin Waldburger (Eds.), "Internet Economics III", IFI Technical Report, No. ifi-2007.09; July, 2007. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2007/ifi-2007.09.pdf
David Hausheer, Thomas Bocek, Cristian Morariu, Gregor Schaffrath, Burkhard Stiller (Eds.), "P2P Challenge Task 2007", IFI Technical Report; July, 2007. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2007/ifi-2007.10.pdf
Thomas Bocek, Ela Hunt, Burkhard Stiller, "Fast Similarity Search in Large Dictionaries", April, 2007. http://fastss.csg.uzh.ch/
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Cristian Morariu, Peter Racz, Gregor Schaffrath, Martin Waldburger (Eds.), "Mobile Systems II", IFI Technical Report, No. ifi-2007.04; March, 2007. ftp://ftp.ifi.unizh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2007/ifi-2007.04.pdf

2006

Thomas Bocek, David Hausheer, Reinhard Riedl, Burkhard Stiller, "Introducing CPU Time as a Scarce Resource in P2P Systems to Achieve Fair Use in a Distributed DNS", 9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2006; April, 2006. /staff/bocek/publications/ieee-gi06.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, David Hausheer, Cristian Morariu, Peter Racz, Gregor Schaffrath, Martin Waldburger, "Communication Systems I", IFI Technical Report; August, 2006. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2006/ifi-2006.09.pdf
Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Cristian Morariu, Peter Racz, Martin Waldburger, "Internet Economics II", IFI Technical Report; February, 2006. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2006/ifi-2006.02.pdf
Thomas Bocek, David Hausheer, Reinhard Riedl, Burkhard Stiller, "Introducing CPU Time as a Scarce Resource in P2P Systems", IFI Technical Report; January, 2006. ftp://ftp.ifi.uzh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-2006/ifi-2006.01.pdf