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26 papers
MESS: Fast and Private Semantic Search on Multi-Graph HNSW
Haoyu Cui, Zengpeng Li, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh +1
Semantic search systems map data to a high-dimensional vector space and support retrieval of similar data via approximate nearest neighbor search. When the system is hosted by an u…
HAKES: Scalable Vector Database for Embedding Search Service
Guoyu Hu, Shaofeng Cai, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh +4
Modern deep learning models capture the semantics of complex data by transforming them into high-dimensional embedding vectors. Emerging applications, such as retrieval-augmented g…
Modeling Concurrency Control as a Learnable Function
Hexiang Pan, Shaofeng Cai, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh +4
Concurrency control (CC) algorithms are important in modern transactional databases, as they enable high performance by executing transactions concurrently while ensuring correctne…
PIEChain -- A Practical Blockchain Interoperability Framework
Daniël Reijsbergen, Aung Maw, Jingchi Zhang +2
A plethora of different blockchain platforms have emerged in recent years, but many of them operate in silos. As such, there is a need for reliable cross-chain communication to ena…
CroCoDai: A Stablecoin for Cross-Chain Commerce
Daniël Reijsbergen, Bretislav Hajek, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh +3
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), in which digital assets are exchanged without trusted intermediaries, has grown rapidly in value in recent years. The global DeFi ecosystem is fragmen…
TAP: Transparent and Privacy-Preserving Data Services
Daniel Reijsbergen, Aung Maw, Zheng Yang +2
Users today expect more security from services that handle their data. In addition to traditional data privacy and integrity requirements, they expect transparency, i.e., that the…
GlassDB: An Efficient Verifiable Ledger Database System Through Transparency
Cong Yue, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Zhongle Xie +4
Verifiable ledger databases protect data history against malicious tampering. Existing systems, such as blockchains and certificate transparency, are based on transparency logs --…
Blockchain Goes Green? Part II: Characterizing the Performance and Cost of Blockchains on the Cloud and at the Edge
Dumitrel Loghin, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Aung Maw +3
While state-of-the-art permissioned blockchains can achieve thousands of transactions per second on commodity hardware with x86/64 architecture, their performance when running on d…
Protecting the Integrity of IoT Sensor Data and Firmware With A Feather-Light Blockchain Infrastructure
Daniel Reijsbergen, Aung Maw, Sarad Venugopalan +3
Smart cities deploy large numbers of sensors and collect a tremendous amount of data from them. For example, Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMIs), which consist of physical met…
Securing Smart Grids Through an Incentive Mechanism for Blockchain-Based Data Sharing
Daniel Reijsbergen, Aung Maw, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh +2
Smart grids leverage the data collected from smart meters to make important operational decisions. However, they are vulnerable to False Data Injection (FDI) attacks in which an at…
Understanding the Scalability of Hyperledger Fabric
Minh Quang Nguyen, Dumitrel Loghin, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh
The rapid growth of blockchain systems leads to increasing interest in understanding and comparing blockchain performance at scale. In this paper, we focus on analyzing the perform…
Transparent Electricity Pricing with Privacy
Daniel Reijsbergen, Zheng Yang, Aung Maw +2
Smart grids leverage data from smart meters to improve operations management and to achieve cost reductions. The fine-grained meter data also enable pricing schemes that simultaneo…
Serverless Data Science -- Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving
Yuncheng Wu, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Guoyu Hu +3
Machine learning (ML) is an important part of modern data science applications. Data scientists today have to manage the end-to-end ML life cycle that includes both model training…
ForkBase: Immutable, Tamper-evident Storage Substrate for Branchable Applications
Qian Lin, Kaiyuan Yang, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh +8
Data collaboration activities typically require systematic or protocol-based coordination to be scalable. Git, an effective enabler for collaborative coding, has been attested for…
A Blueprint for Interoperable Blockchains
Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Anwitaman Datta, Beng Chin Ooi
Research in blockchain systems has mainly focused on improving security and bridging the performance gaps between blockchains and databases. Despite many promising results, we obse…
Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion
Pingcheng Ruan, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Dumitrel Loghin +4
Blockchain has come a long way: a system that was initially proposed specifically for cryptocurrencies is now being adapted and adopted as a general-purpose transactional system. A…
The Disruptions of 5G on Data-driven Technologies and Applications
Dumitrel Loghin, Shaofeng Cai, Gang Chen +12
With 5G on the verge of being adopted as the next mobile network, there is a need to analyze its impact on the landscape of computing and data management. In this paper, we analyze…
Blockchain Goes Green? An Analysis of Blockchain on Low-Power Nodes
Dumitrel Loghin, Gang Chen, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh +2
Motivated by the massive energy usage of blockchain, on the one hand, and by significant performance improvements in low-power, wimpy systems, on the other hand, we perform an in-d…
Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding
Hung Dang, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Dumitrel Loghin +3
Existing blockchain systems scale poorly because of their distributed consensus protocols. Current attempts at improving blockchain scalability are limited to cryptocurrency. Scali…
ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications
Sheng Wang, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Qian Lin +7
Existing data storage systems offer a wide range of functionalities to accommodate an equally diverse range of applications. However, new classes of applications have emerged, e.g.…
Untangling Blockchain: A Data Processing View of Blockchain Systems
Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Rui Liu, Meihui Zhang +3
Blockchain technologies are gaining massive momentum in the last few years. Blockchains are distributed ledgers that enable parties who do not fully trust each other to maintain a…
BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains
Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Ji Wang, Gang Chen +3
Blockchain technologies are taking the world by storm. Public blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, enable secure peer-to-peer applications like crypto-currency or smart contr…
Deep Learning At Scale and At Ease
Wei Wang, Gang Chen, Haibo Chen +5
Recently, deep learning techniques have enjoyed success in various multimedia applications, such as image classification and multi-modal data analysis. Large deep learning models a…
Stream on the Sky: Outsourcing Access Control Enforcement for Stream Data to the Cloud
Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Anwitaman Datta
There is an increasing trend for businesses to migrate their systems towards the cloud. Security concerns that arise when outsourcing data and computation to the cloud include data…