Dr. Bruno Rodrigues

Bruno Rodrigues received his doctoral degree from the University of Zurich, in 2020, at the Communication Systems Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller. Previously, he obtained his master's degree in 2016 at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.  He co-authored 3 patents and published over 60 papers and journals in related IEEE networking conferences (e.g., IEEE/IFIP NOMS, IEEE/IFIP IM, IEEE LCN) and leading IEEE journals (IEEE TSNM, IEEE Communications Magazine). Further, he is actively contributing to the scientific community by actively reviewing papers and journals, acting as a guest editor, and technical program committee in networking and blockchain conferences. He currently focuses his research on the automation of network security management.

My principal research focus is on the security of heterogeneous networks. My primary interest is in creating and deploying collaborative methods to identify, signal, and mitigate cyberattacks. My goal is to comprehend and enhance the existing knowledge of the rising landscape of cyberattacks, with a particular focus on Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks as a major threat, as well as the difficulties associated with a collaborative defense scenario. I tackle research questions with both qualitative and quantitative research approaches, to broaden awareness beyond the technical dimension, considering social, economic, and legal factors. For instance, when and how to require that organizations share information, as well as how to request cooperative mitigation based on threat characteristics and economic analyses. In this way, an equally distributed and responsive defense is likewise complex yet imperative given the complexity of vectors and the distribution of attacks.

Involved in the following courses:

• FS term: Systems Software and Distributed Systems (discontinued, now CESS), Seminar on Communication Systems (ComSys)
• HS term: Communication Systems Lab Course (lecturer), Seminar on Internet Economics (IntEco), Fundamentals of Software Systems (FSS), Computer Network  Security Principles (lecturer)

Take a look at the CSG theses here. If you already have a specific topic in mind and think that I can help to guide you, drop me an e-mail or come by to have a chat. I am typically open to suggestions (as long as I can contribute). 

Generally, these areas are interesting to me:

• DDoS Attacks
  • Profiling Botnets behavior
  • Malware detection (smart-home security)
• Cooperative DDoS Detection
  • Shared database
  • Overlay network
• Cooperative DDoS Mitigation
  • Definition of mitigation playbooks
  • Mitigation-as-a-Service in a P2P network
• Foundations of trust
  • Tracking of reputation
• The economic perspective of a cooperative defense

A complete list and the impact of publications can be found on Scholar. Recent publications:

2022:

• [Book chapter] Bruno Rodrigues, Muriel Franco, Christian Killer, Eder J. Scheid, Burkhard Stiller. On Trust, Blockchain, and Reputation Systems. Springer. To appear.
• [Book chapter] Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller. From Centralized to Decentralized Remote Electronic Voting. Blockchains - A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications. Springer. To appear.
• [Technical Report] Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Jonas Brunner, Calvin Falter, Guilherme Sperb Machado, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller: FlatFeeStack: a Blockchain-based Sustainable Public Funding of Open Source Projects; UZH, IFI-TecReport No. 2022.05, Zürich, Switzerland, June 2022. Link
• [Short Paper]. Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Julius Willems, Burkhard Stiller: PMDTrack: Portable Medical Devices Real-time Inventory and Tracking; 17th Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services Conference 2022, "17th Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS)", Virtual Conference, Online, March 2022, pp 1 - 4. Link.
• [Journal] Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller. Blockchain-based Voting Considered Harmful?. IEEE. Link Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). To appear.
• [Technical Report]. Rodrigues B, Mueller L, Scheid E.J., Franco M.F., Killer C., Stiller B. LaFlector: a 2D LiDAR-based Indoor Tracking Approach. University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Tech. Rep, 1. pp. 1 - 11. Link
• [Technical Report]. Rodrigues, B., Cepilov, I., Franco, M., Scheid, E.J., Killer, C., von der Assen, J. and Stiller, B., 2022. CCount: Correlating RFID and Camera Data for High Precision Indoor Tracking. University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Tech. Rep, 1. pp. 1 - 12. Link

2021:

• [Full paper] Eder J. Scheid, Pascal Kiechl, Muriel Franco, Bruno Rodrigues, Christian Killer, Burkhard Stiller. Security and Standardization of a Notary-based Blockchain Interoperability API. The Third IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2021). Tartu, Estonia. Link
• [Demo] Jan von der Assen, Muriel Franco, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller. Analysis and Classification of Cyberattack Traffic using the SecGrid Platform. IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2021), Virtually, Edmonton, Canada, October 2021, pp. 1–3. Link
• [Workshop] Bruno Rodrigues, Spasen Trendafilov, Eder Scheid and Burkhard Stiller. SC-FLARE: Cooperative DDoS Signaling based on Smart Contracts. NetSyS 2021, Hot Topics in Distributed System *(extended version from IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC) 2020. Link
• [Journal] Eder John Scheid, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller. Policy-based Blockchain Selection. IEEE Communication Magazine (COMMAG). Link
• [Full Paper] M. Franco, N. Berni, E. Scheid, B. Rodrigues, C. Killer, B. Stiller: SaCI: a Blockchain-based Cyber Insurance Approach for the Deployment and Management of a Contract Coverage; 18th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services (GECON 2021), Virtually, September 2021, pp 1–14. Link
• [Book Chapter] E. Scheid, B. Rodrigues, C. Killer, M. Franco, S. Rafati, B. Stiller: Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers Uncovered: Clarifications, Achievements, and Open Issues; in: Michael Goedicke, Erich Neuhold, Kai Rannenberg (Edt.), "Advancing Research in Information and Communication Technology", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, No. 1, August 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-81701-5, pp 1–29. Link
• [Full Paper] M. Franco, J. von der Assen, L. Boillat, C. Killer, B. Rodrigues, E. John Scheid, L. Granville, B. Stiller: SecGrid: A Visual System for the Analysis and ML-Based Classification of Cyberattack Traffic; IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2021), Virtually, Edmonton, Canada, October 2021, pp. 1–8. Link
• [Short Paper] B. Rodrigues, L. Mueller, E. Scheid, M. Franco, C. Killer, B. Stiller: LaFlector: A Privacy-Preserving LiDAR-Based Approach for Accurate Indoor Tracking; IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2021), Virtually, Edmonton, Canada, October 2021, pp. 1–4. Link
• [Journal] M. Franco, B. Rodrigues, C. Killer, E. Scheid, A. De Carli, A. Gassmann, D. Schoenbaechler, B. Stiller: WeTrace: a Privacy-preserving Tracing Approach; KICKS and IEEE ComSoc, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), Special Issue on Communications and Networking Approaches for Combatting COVID-19, October 2021, pp. 1–16. Link
• [Short Paper] Muriel Franco, Jan von der Assen, Luc Boillat, Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Lisandro Granville, Burkhard Stiller: DDoSGrid: a Platform for the Post-mortem Analysis and Visualization of DDoS Attacks; IFIP Networking 2021, Espoo, Finland, Virtually, June 2021, pp 1–3. Link
• [Short Paper] Rafael Ribeiro, Bruno Rodrigues, Christian Killer, L. Baumann, Muriel Franco, Eder John Scheid, Burkhard Stiller: ASIMOV: A Fully Passive WiFi Device Tracking; IFIP Networking 2021, Espoo, Finland, Virtually, June 2021, pp 1–3. Link
• [Full Paper] Eder Scheid, Andreas Knecht, Tim Strasser, Christian Killer, Muriel Franco, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller. Edge2BC: a Practical Approach for Edge-to-Blockchain IoT Transactions; IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2021), Darlinghurst, Australia, May 2021, pp 1–9. Link
• [Full Paper] Christian Killer, Markus Knecht, Claude Müller, B. Rodrigues, Eder Scheid, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller. Æternum: A Decentralized Voting System with Unconditional Privacy; IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2021), Darlinghurst, Australia, May 2021, pp 1–8. Link Best paper award
• [Tutorial] Christian Killer, B. Rodrigues, Eder J. Scheid, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller: Blockchain-based Remote Electronic Voting from Theory to Practice; IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021), Virtually, Bordeaux, France, Bordeaux, France, May 2021.
• [PhD Digest Session] Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller. The Cooperative DDoS Signaling based on a Blockchain-based System. PhD Dissertation Track. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021), Bordeaux, France, May 2021, pp 1–6. Link
• [Experience Paper] 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), Bordeaux, France, May 2021, pp 1–6. Link
• [Full paper] Bruno Rodrigues, Cyrill Halter, Muriel Franco, Eder J. Scheid, Christian Killer, Burkhard Stiller. BluePIL: a Bluetooth-based Passive Indoor Localization Method. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021), Bordeaux, France, May 2021, pp 1–9. Link.

2020:

• [Full paper] M. Franco, B. Rodrigues, E. Scheid, A. Jacobs, C. Killer, L. Granville, B. Stiller: SecBot: a Business-Driven Conversational Agent for Cybersecurity Planning and Management; 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2020), Izmir, Turkey, November 2020, pp 1–7. Link.
• [Full paper] Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Muriel Franco, Moritz Eck, Nik Zaugg, Alex Scheitlin, Burkhard Stiller: Provotum: A Blockchain-Based and End-to-End Verifiable Remote Electronic Voting System; IEEE 45th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sidney, Australia, November 2020, pp 1–12. Link.
• [Full paper] Clemens Jeger, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder Scheid, Burkhard Stiller. Analysis of Stablecoins during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic. The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020). Link.
• [Technical Report] Christian Killer, Lucas Thorbecke, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller: Proverum: A Hybrid Public Verifiability for Decentralized Identity Management; IFI Technical Report 2020.03, Zürich, Switzerland, August 2020. [arxiv] [Researchgate]
• [Journal] Bruno Rodrigues, Eder Scheid, Christian Killer, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller: Blockchain Signaling System (BloSS) Cooperative Signaling of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks. Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Special Issue on Future of Network and Service Operations and Management: Trends, Developments, and Directions. Springer's. Link.
• [Full paper] Muriel Franco, Erion Sula, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder Scheid, Burkhard Stiller. ProtectDDoS: Trustworthy Offering and Recommendation of Protections. 17th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2020). Online conference. Link.
• [Demo] Getoar Gallopeni, Bruno Rodrigues, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller: A Practical Analysis on Mirai Botnet Traffic; IFIP Networking 2020, Paris, France, 22-25 June, 2020. Link.
• [White Paper] Alessandro De Carli, Muriel Franco, Andreas Gassmann, Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, David Schoenbaechler, Burkhard Stiller: WeTrace: Privacy-preserving Mobile COVID-19 Tracing Approach and Application; Technical Report, Zürich, Switzerland, April 2020. Link
• [Tutorial] Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Eder Scheid, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller. Practical Introduction to
  Blockchain-based Remote Electronic Voting. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 20). 3-6 May. Toronto, Canada. Link
• [Research Project] Bruno Rodrigues, Thomas Bocek, Simon Tuck, Burkhard Stiller - PasWITS - Passives Wireless Intelligence Tracking System. Innovation projects ICT. Inosuisse. 42193.1 IP-ICT. Link
• [Full Paper] Scheid, E. J, Widmer P., Rodrigues B., Franco M., Stiller B. A Controlled Natural Language to Support Intent-based Blockchain Selection; IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2020), 3-6 May 2020, Toronto, Canada. Link
• [Poster] Bruno Rodrigues, Spasen Trendafilov, Eder Scheid, Burkhard Stiller. SC-FLARE: Cooperative DDoS Signaling based on Smart Contracts. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2020), 3-6 May 2020, Toronto, Canada. Link
• [Tutorial]: Bruno Rodrigues, Eder Scheid, Burkhard Stiller. Blockchains in the Age of Softwarization – Hands-on Experiences with Programming Smart Contracts and Their Security Pitfalls. IFIP/IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium. 20-24 April. 2020. Budapest, Hungary. 
• [Full paper]: Eder J. Scheid, Daniel Lakic, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller. PleBeuS: a Policy-based Blockchain Selection Framework. IFIP/IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium. 20-24 April. 2020. Budapest, Hungary. Link.
• [Full Paper]: Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Raphael Matile, Eder Scheid, Burkhard Stiller. Design and Implementation of Cast-as-Intended Verifiability for a Blockchain-based Voting System. The 35th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC). March 30th to April 3rd, 2020. Brno, Czech Republic. Link
• [Book Chapter] Bruno Rodrigues, Muriel Franco, Eder John Scheid, Burkhard Stiller, Salil Kanhere: A Technology-driven Overview on Blockchain-based Academic Certificate Handling; in: Ramesh Sharma, Hakan Yildirim, Gulsun Meric (Edt.), "Blockchain Technology Applications in Education", IGI Global, Pensilvania, U.S.A, January 2020, ISBN 978-1-522-59478-9, pp 1–290. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9478-9 Link

Guest-editor:

• Special Issue on Recent Advances on Blockchain for Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM), 2022.
• Special Issue on Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Network and Service Management, Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), 2022.

Reviewer:

• IEEE ICBC 2020 (International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency)
• ACM TOIT 2019 (Transactions on Internet Technology)
• IEEE Access 2019 (The Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal)
• Elsevier JONS 2019 (Journal of Networks and Service Management)
• IEEE ICBC 2019 (International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency)
• IEEE TNSM 2018, 2019 (Transactions on Network and Service Management)
• IEEE JCN 2018 (Journal of Communications and Networks)
• IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2018 (Network Operations and Management Symposium)
• IEEE WCNC 2018 (Wireless Communications and Networking Conference)
• IEEE JCN 2017 (Journal of Communications and Networks)
• Elsevier COMNET 2017 (Computer Networks Journal)

Member of local organizing committe:

• IFIP Networking 2018
• IFIP AIMS (Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security) 2017