Stefan Schmid

Distributed Cloud Computing

2015 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

A distributed cloud connecting multiple, geographically distributed and smaller datacenters, can be an attractive alternative to today's massive, centralized datacenters. A distributed cloud can reduce communication overheads, costs, and latencies by o ering nearby computation …

Breeding Unicorns: Developing Trustworthy and Scalable Randomness Beacons

2019

Randomness beacons are services that periodically emit a random number, allowing users to base decisions on the same random value without trusting anyone: ideally, the randomness beacon does not only produce unpredictable values, but is …

Breeding unicorns: Developing trustworthy and scalable randomness beacons

2020 · PLoS ONE

Randomness beacons are services that periodically emit a random number, allowing users to base decisions on the same random value without trusting anyone: ideally, the randomness beacon does not only produce unpredictable values, but is …