Research

Published papers

• "Blazing through Hard Drive Telemetry Data Streams with Parallel Processing" (I.I. Sârbu, E. Onica, C. Amariei) - The 18th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems, DEBS 2024 - DEBS Grand Challenge Performance Award
• "Can Smart Contracts Become Smart? An Overview of Transaction Impact on Ethereum DApp Engineering" (E. Onica, M. Georgică) - The 4th International Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good, in conjunction with ACM/IFIP Middleware 2023 Conference, DICG 2023
• "Using SGX for Meta-Transactions Support in Ethereum DApps" (E. Onica, C. Amariei) - The 22nd IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2022
• "Malware in the SGX supply chain: Be careful when signing enclaves!" (V. Crăciun, P. Felber, A. Mogage, E. Onica, R. Pires) - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2022
• "Towards Efficient Hashing in Ethereum Smart Contracts" (E. Onica, C.I. Schifirneţ) - The 16th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2021
• "Fair and Efficient Gossip in Hyperledger Fabric" (N. Berendea, H. Mercier, E. Onica, E. Rivière) - The 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2020
• "Supply Chain Malware Targets SGX: Take Care of what you Sign" (A Mogage, R. Pires, V. Crăciun, E. Onica, P. Felber) - The 38th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2019
• "From Confidential kNN Queries to Confidential Content-Based Publish/Subscribe" (E. Onica, H. Mercier, E. Rivière) - The 14th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2019 - Best Position Award
• "Towards Integrated Failure Recovery for Web Service Composition" (P. Diac, E. Onica) - The 14th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2019
• "Grand Challenge: Cell Grid Architecture for Maritime Route Prediction on AIS Data Streams" (C. Amariei, P. Diac, E. Onica, V. Roşca) - The 12th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, DEBS 2018 - DEBS Grand Challenge Performance Award
• "Grand Challenge: Predicting Destinations by Nearest Neighbor Search on Training Vessel Routes" (V. Roşca, E. Onica, P. Diac, C. Amariei) - The 12th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, DEBS 2018
• "Reliable Messaging to Millions of Users with MigratoryData" (M. Rotaru, F. Olariu, E. Onica, E. Rivière) - The 18th Annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Middleware 2017
• "Optimized Stage Processing for Anomaly Detection on Numerical Data Streams: Grand Challenge" (C. Amariei, P. Diac, E. Onica) - The 11th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, DEBS 2017 - DEBS Grand Challenge Performance Award
• "A Lightweight MapReduce Framework for Secure Processing with SGX" (R. Pires, D. Gavril, P. Felber, E. Onica, M. Pasin) - Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGRID 2017
• "Efficient and Confidentiality-Preserving Content-Based Publish/Subscribe with Prefiltering" (R. Barazzutti, E. Onica, P. Felber, H. Mercier, E. Rivière) - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 14, Issue 3, 2017
• "Confidentiality-Preserving Publish/Subscribe: A Survey" (E. Onica, P. Felber, H. Mercier, E. Rivière) - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol. 49, Issue 2, 2016
• "Towards Scalable and Dependable Privacy-Preserving Publish/Subscribe Services" (E. Onica, P. Felber, H. Mercier, E. Rivière) - The 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2016 - Fast Abstract
• "Efficient Key Updates through Subscription Re-encryption for Privacy-Preserving Publish/Subscribe" (E. Onica, P. Felber, H. Mercier, E. Rivière) - The 16th Annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Middleware 2015
• "Elastic Scaling of a High-Throughput Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Engine" (R. Barazzutti, T. Heinze, A. Martin, E. Onica, P. Felber, C. Fetzer, Z. Jerzak, M. Pasin, E. Rivière) - The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2014
• "Performance/Security Tradeoffs for Content-Based Routing Supported by Bloom Filters" (H. Mercier, E. Onica, E. Rivière, P. Felber) - The 20th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2013
• "StreamHub: a Massively Parallel Architecture for High-Performance Content-Based Publish/Subscribe" (R. Barazzutti, P. Felber, C. Fetzer, E. Onica, J.F. Pineau, M. Pasin, E. Rivière, S. Weigert) - The 7th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, DEBS 2013 - Best Paper Award
• "Thrifty Privacy: Efficient Support for Privacy-Preserving Publish/Subscribe" (R. Barazzutti, P. Felber, H. Mercier, E. Onica, E. Rivière) - The 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, DEBS 2012
• "Infrastructure Provisioning for Scalable Content-Based Routing: Framework and Analysis", (R. Barazzutti, P. Felber, H. Mercier, E. Onica, J.F. Pineau, E. Rivière, C. Fetzer) - The 11th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2012
• "Enhancing Yahoo! Search Results using Linked Open Data" (C. Amariei, E. Onica, S. Buraga) - Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Techniques Conference 2nd Edition, KEPT 2009

Projects

• EBSIS - Horizon 2020 European project. Project coordinator.
• EBSIS - PNIII award research project associated to H2020 EBSIS project. Project coordinator.
• SRT-15 - FP7 European project. Primary contributions on project deliverables.
• LEADS - FP7 European project. Collaborative work.

PC Member or Organizer

• The 25th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference - Middleware 2024 (PC member)
• The 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems - DEBS 2023 (PC member)
• The 23rd IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - DAIS 2023, part of DisCoTec 2023 (PC member)
• The 22nd IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - DAIS 2022, part of DisCoTec 2022 (PC member)
• The 21st IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - DAIS 2021, part of DisCoTec 2021 (PC member)
• The 20th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - DAIS 2020, part of DisCoTec 2020 (PC member)
• The 15th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2019 (PC member)
• The 19th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - DAIS 2019, part of DisCoTec 2019 (PC member)
• The 14th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2018 (general chair)
• EBSIS Summer School 2018 (organizer)
• The 18th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - DAIS 2018, part of DisCoTec 2018 (PC member)
• The 21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems - OPODIS 2017 (PC member)
• EBSIS Summer School 2017 (organizer)
• Workshop on Mobility and Cloud Security and Privacy in conjunction with SRDS 2016 (PC member)
• EBSIS Summer School 2016 (organizer)

Other activity

Invited Talks

• "Using SGX to Tackle Security Issues in Ethereum Meta-Transaction", presentation given at the BlockTEE workshop, within the DisCoTec 2022 conference, Lucca, Italy, 17 June 2022
• "Twinning: EBSIS - Event Based Systems in Iaşi", presentation given at NCP_WIDE.NET Infoday, within WireX 2019 conference, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, 26 June 2019
• "Efficient Support for Confidentiality-Preserving Publish/Subscribe Systems", presentation given at Distributed Systems Research Group, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, 8 September 2014
• "The GSoC Experience", presentation given at the Google Summer of Code meet-up event, Institute of Informatics, University of Neuchâtel, 27 February 2014