Selected Publications
Preprint
"Duet: Co-Optimizing P2P Message Propagation and Rotating-Leader Consensus"
Yifeng Ye, Rongji Huang, Gerui Wang, Mingchao Wan, Yuxing Duan, Jingjing Zhang,
Shengyun Liu
arXiv, 2026.
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"Back to the Future: Rethinking Endorsement in Order-Execute Blockchains"
Rongji Huang, Yifeng Ye, Gerui Wang, Mingchao Wan, Yuxing Duan, Jingjing Zhang, Guangtao Xue,
Shengyun Liu
arXiv, 2026.
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Conference
"Integrating 2PC with Consensus for Fast Replication"
Yan Chen, Xinyi Yu, Shengyun Liu, Ruofan Xiong, Tianjing Xu, Yongwei Wu, Yiming Zhang
ACM SIGCOMM, 2026.
"ShadowClone: Accelerating Cross-Shard Transactions via Shadow Accounts"
Jiahao Qi, Dian Ding, Feilong Lin, Haotian Zhu, Jie Li, Shengyun Liu, Guangtao Xue and Jiannong Cao
IEEE ICDCS, 2026.
"BIND: Enabling Continuous Transaction Processing During Account Migration in Sharded Blockchains"
Jiahao Qi, Dian Ding, Jie Li, Jiannong Cao, Yi-Chao Chen, Guangtao Xue,
Shengyun Liu
ACM WWW, 2026.
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"Chitu: Avoiding Unnecessary Fallback in Byzantine Consensus"
Rongji Huang, Xiangzhe Wang, Xiaofeng Yan, Lei Fan, Guangtao Xue,
Shengyun Liu
USENIX ATC, 2025.
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[Patent]
application submitted (in Chinese) in November 2022
"EquiBFT: A Framework for Achieving Fairness in BFT Consensus"
Siwei Cai, Lei Fan,
Shengyun Liu (alphabetical order), Hong-Sheng Zhou
IEEE ICDCS, 2025.
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"Vegeta: Enabling Parallel Smart Contract Execution in Leaderless Blockchains"
Tianjing Xu, Yongqi Zhong, Yiming Zhang, Ruofan Xiong, Jingjing Zhang, Guangtao Xue,
Shengyun Liu
USENIX NSDI, 2025.
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"Cheetah: Metadata aggregation for fast object storage without distributed ordering"
Yiming Zhang, Li Wang,
Shengyun Liu, Shun Gai, Haonan Wang, Xin Yao, Meiling Wang, Kai Chen, Dongsheng Li, Jiwu Shu
ACM EuroSys, 2025.
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"Bandle: Asynchronous state machine replication made efficient"
Bo Wang*,
Shengyun Liu* (equal contribution), He Dong, Xiangzhe Wang, Wenbo Xu, Jingjing Zhang, Ping Zhong, Yiming Zhang
ACM EuroSys, 2024.
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"Flexible advancement in asynchronous bft consensus"
Shengyun Liu, Wenbo Xu, Chen Shan, Xiaofeng Yan, Tianjing Xu, Bo Wang, Lei Fan, Fuxi Deng, Ying Yan, Hui Zhang
ACM SOSP, 2023.
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"Bridging the gap of timing assumptions in byzantine consensus"
Zixuan Chen, Lei Fan,
Shengyun Liu (alphabetical order), Marko Vukolić, Xiangzhe Wang, Jingjing Zhang
ACM Middleware, 2023.
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"Ursa: Hybrid block storage for cloud-scale virtual disks"
Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Zhiming Zhang,
Shengyun Liu, Peng Huang, Zheng Qin, Kai Chen, Yongqiang Xiong
ACM EuroSys, 2019.
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"PARIX: Speculative Partial Writes in Erasure-Coded Systems"
Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang, Zhiming Zhang,
Shengyun Liu, Dongsheng Li, Xiaohui Liu, Yuxing Peng
USENIX ATC (short paper), 2017.
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"XFT: Practical fault tolerance beyond crashes"
Shengyun Liu, Paolo Viotti, Christian Cachin, Vivien Quéma, Marko Vukolić
USENIX OSDI, 2016.
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Journal
"Customizable Information Dispersal-Based Byzantine Broadcast with Communication Optimization Using Bloom Filters"
Shuangquan Tan, Yong Chen,
Shengyun Liu
IEEE TDSC, 2026.
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"Efficient Block Storage in the Cloud"
Yiming Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Yan Chen, Huiba Li, Haonan Wang, Ping Zhong,
Shengyun Liu, Dongsheng Li
IEEE TCAD, 2024.
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"Hybrid block storage for efficient cloud volume service"
Yiming Zhang, Huiba Li,
Shengyun Liu, Peng Huang
ACM ToS, 2023.
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"PBS: An efficient erasure-coded block storage system based on speculative partial writes"
Yiming Zhang, Huiba Li,
Shengyun Liu, Jiawei Xu, Guangtao Xue
ACM ToS, 2020.
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"Leader set selection for low-latency geo-replicated state machine"
Shengyun Liu, Marko Vukolić
IEEE TPDS, 2017.
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