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Past News

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• Dec. 7, 2024: Congrats to my Ph.D. student, Mr. Jian Zheng, for accepting his paper at INFOCOM 2025. Title: “Justitia: An Incentive Mechanism towards the Fairness of Cross-shard Transactions.” To download this paper: http://xintelligence.pro/archives/1371

• Sep. 19, 2024: I have again been recognized in the World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists.

• Apr. 23, 2024: We've got three papers accepted by ICDCS 2024! Congrats to team members Dr. Taotao Li, Jialiang, and Mr. Chun Wang. [论文介绍-微信公众号文章]

• Feb. 9, 2024: My Google Scholar citations hit 5000!

• Jan. 2024: I am invited to be a TPC track co-chair for the IEEE Global Blockchain Conference. This conference will be held in Shanghai on August 21-23, 2024. [ TPC ]

• Jan. 12, 2024: I am invited to join the program committee of ICDCS 2024 (44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems), Blockchain Track, and Industrial and Interdisciplinary Studies of Distributed Systems and Applications Track. [ TPC ]

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• Dec. 1, 2023: Great News! Our two papers, titled “Broker2Earn: Towards Maximizing Broker Revenue and System Liquidity for Sharded Blockchains” and “Account Migration across Blockchain Shards using Fine-tuned Lock Mechanism,” have been accepted by INFOCOM 2024. Big congrats to my Ph.D. student, Mr. Qinde Chen (陈钦德), and my master's program student, Mr. Yue Lin (林岳). Good job! [论文介绍-知乎专栏文章]

• Nov. 8, 2023: We have provided a technical paper for our BlockEmulator, a blockchain experiment tool that enables researchers to verify their proposed new protocols and mechanisms, particularly blockchain sharding protocols. Check out our guidebook from [arXiv article].

• Oct. 26, 2023: I have been invited to give a talk in the Web3 forum at CNCC 2023, Shenyang. The title of my talk is "Building Infrastructure for Web3: Improving the Scalability of Blockchains using Sharding."

• Oct. 11, 2023: I have been on the World Ranking of the Top 2% Scientists List (October 2023).

• Oct. 8, 2023: I am invited to join the technical program committee for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC'2024).

• Sep. 6, 2023: I've been appointed Youth Editorial Board Member for the ELSP Journal Blockchain (ISSN 2959-1260) [Editorial Board].

• Aug. 17, 2023: HuangLab has organized two academic forums on blockchain at two prestigious CCF conferences. See more details in our blog (In Chinese): http://xintelligence.pro/archives/1175

• May 13, 2023: Good News! We made our experimental tool for blockchain research open-source. This tool is named blockEmulator. Visit our websites –>> www.blockEmulator.com (Chinese version), and https://github.com/HuangLab-SYSU/block-emulator (English version).

• May. 11, 2023: Good News! Our paper  “Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Sharded Blockchain” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN/TNet). Congratulations to my group! [ PDF ] [公众号介绍文章]

• Apr 13, 2023: Good News! Our paper ``Adaptive Double-Spending Attacks on PoW-based Blockchains” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), a top journal in Cyber Security. Congratulations to my student Jian Zheng (郑简)!  [ 论文介绍 ] 

• Mar. 30, 2023: Good News! Our paper ``tMPT: Reconfiguration across Blockchain Shards via Trimmed Merkle Patricia Trie" has been accepted by IEEE IWQoS 2023!  [论文介绍] 

• Feb. 20, 2023: Good News! Our paper ``GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism" has been accepted by VLDB 2023!

• Feb. 16, 2023: Invited by IEEE New Zealand North Section Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Group, I gave an online talk titled ``Exploring Blockchain Scalability using Sharding Techniques" on Feb. 23, 2023. [ IEEE Event page ]

• Jan. 28, 2023: I am invited to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Blockchains (MDPI, ISSN 2813-5288) [Editorial Board].

• Jan. 19, 2023: My first-ever science book ``From Blockchain to Web3" (in Chinese), will be published in October 2023. Welcome to download the preview version from [my blog].

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• Dec. 22, 2022: Great News! Our paper, “From Technology to Society: An Overview of Blockchain-Based DAO,” won the runner-up for the 2021 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society. This award is recognized by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board. [News Page]

• Dec. 12, 2022: Our latest survey article ``Economic Systems in Metaverse: Basics, State of the Art, and Challenges," has been submitted to ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). Please find our paper on [arXiv page].

• Dec. 5, 2022: I am invited to serve IEEE SERVICES 2023 as one of the Congress Advisory Program Chairs.

• Nov.7, 2022: We have published a survey article related to Web3.0. The title is “When Digital Economy Meets Web3.0: Applications and Challenges“. [arXiv page]

• Aug. 26, 2022: We have released the white paper of our recent project, "Consensusless Blockchain (CB chain)," which promises to lead the next-generation blockchain protocols in the era of Web3. See our white paper from [arXiv link].

• July 1, 2022: Good News! I have been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.

• June 18th, 2022: Good News! Our paper “Achieving Scalability and Load Balance across Blockchain Shards for State Sharding” is accepted by the 41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2022). [PDF]

• Apr 4th, 2022: Good News! Our paper “ContextFL: Context-aware Federated Learning by Estimating the Training and Reporting Phases of Mobile Clients” has been accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2022. [PDF], [Video]

• Mar 29th, 2022: Our blockchain paper titled "BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding" is going to appear at INFOCOM 2022. [PDF]

• Jan. 16th, 2022: Good News! Our paper titled "Elastic Resource Allocation against Imbalanced Transaction Assignments in Sharding-based Permissioned Blockchains" [PDF] has been online published by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).

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• Dec 3rd, 2021: Great News! Our blockchain paper titled "BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding" has been accepted by INFOCOM 2022!!! [PDF]

• Aug 15, 2021: CFP: I am organizing a special issue on Intelligent Blockchain at IEEE JSAC. Welcome to submit your high-quality papers. [URL]

• Aug 5, 2021: What a great honor to serve as an invited speaker at BlockSys'2021 and deliver a talk titled "Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Large-Scale Sharded Blockchain".

• Aug 3, 2021: Thanks a lot for the invitation from Dr. Zehui Xiong, who is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Today, in Zehui's Blockchain Technology Course, I delivered a talk titled "Blockchain Sharding and Recent Studies". In this talk, I first introduced the preliminaries of blockchain sharding, then presented one of my recent studies on the committee's scheduling towards the large-scale sharding-based blockchain.

• Apr 23, 2021: Good News! Our paper titled “Revisiting Double-Spending Attacks on the Bitcoin Blockchain: New Findings” has been accepted by IWQoS 2021 (CCF-B) as a short paper. Congratulations to the research assistant student Mr. Jian Zheng, and the master-program student Mr. Canlin Li. [PDF][Slides]

• Mar 18, 2021: Good News!  Our blockchain paper titled "MVCom: Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Large-Scale Sharded Blockchain" has been accepted by the 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2021). [PDF] [Slides]

• Mar 2021: Our blockchain survey article titled "A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools" has been formally published in ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 7.99) with Open Access. [Download] [arXiv]

• Feb. 20, 2021: I am invited to serve as the leading operation committee member for the inaugural IEEE Symposium on Blockchain at IEEE SERVICES 2021.

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• Dec.3rd-2020: Our latest blockchain survey titled "A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools” has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 7.99). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03520

• Sep.20th-2020: Submission Due is extended to Nov. 15th: IEEE OJ-CS  Special Issue “Blockchain Intelligence: Technologies and Applications”. Welcome to submit your papers --> [URL]

• Sep. 15th, 2020: Our Chapter article titled "Smartphone Based Emergency Communication" is published in Akerkar R. (eds) Big Data in Emergency Management: Exploitation Techniques for Social and Mobile Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48099-8_7

• Aug.11th, 2020: Our paper titled "PIRATE: A Blockchain-based Secure Framework of Distributed Machine Learning in 5G Networks" has been accepted by IEEE Network (IF: 9.59). [PDF]

• July 9th: We have uploaded the latest blockchain survey titled "A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools” to arXiv. This survey is focusing on the theoretical modelings, analytical models, and evaluation tools of blockchains. [Paper]

• April-2020: We are organizing a Special Issue on the new journal IEEE OJ-CS with a topic “Blockchain Intelligence: Technologies and Applications”. Welcome to submit your papers --> [URL]

• 10-March-2020: Huawei Huang, Jianru Lin, Baichuan Zheng, Zibin Zheng and Jing Bian, "When Blockchain Meets Distributed File Systems: An Overview, Challenges, and Open Issues", IEEE Access, vol.8, no.1, pp.50574-50586, 2020. [PDF]

• 27-Jan-2020: Our paper "Bridge the Trustworthiness Gap amongst Multiple Domains: A Practical Blockchain-based Approach" has been accepted by IEEE ICC'2020. [PDF-ResearchGate]

• 17-Jan-2020: The dataset for the paper entitled “Proactive Failure Recovery for NFV in Distributed Edge Computing” has been released on the [Datasets] of my Lab's homepage.

• 12-Jan-2020: Our paper entitled “Solutions to Scalability of Blockchain: A Survey” has been accepted for publication. [RG-page, PDF-Download]

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• Dec. 23th, 2019, our recent paper entitled “PIRATE: A Blockchain-based Secure Framework of Distributed Machine Learning in 5G Networks” has been submitted to arXiv. This paper proposes to using Sharding technique to prevent against byzantine attacks during the multiple stages of distributed machine learning.

• Dec. 19th, 2019, our paper entitled “Online VNF Chain Deployment on Resource-limited Edges by Exploiting Peer Edge Devices” has been accepted by the prestigeous ELSEVIER journal Computer Networks (IF=3.03, CCF-B class).

• Dec. 09, 2019, our paper entitled "Service Chaining for Hybrid Network Functions" [PDF] [RG-Page], has been officially published by IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7962178 

• Oct. 17, 2019, our paper entitled "Machine Fault Detection for Intelligent Self-Driving Networks" [PDF] [RG-Page] has been accepted by IEEE Communications Magazine.

• Oct. 14, 2019, our paper entitled "Real-Time Fault-Detection for IIoT Facilities using GBRBM-based DNN" [PDF] [RG-Page] has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

• Aug 06, 2019, our paper entitled "Coflow-like Online Data Acquisition from Low-Earth-Orbit Datacenters" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2019.2936202 [PDF] [RG-Page] 

• July 29, 2019: As co-author of the article "Dual: Deploy Stateful Virtual Network Function Chains by Jointly Allocating Data-Control Traffic [PDF]", I am pleased to let you know that the final version is now available online.

• April 2019: Our publication "Traffic and Computation Co-Offloading With Reinforcement Learning in Fog Computing for Industrial Applications" has been selected as one of top 50 frequently accessed documents of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) during March 2019.

• March 8, 2019, "Proactive Failure recovery for NFV in Distributed Edge Computing" has been published by IEEE Communications Magazine. This article promotes to provide the proactive failure recovery mechanism for NFV-enabled edge networks. [PDF]

• Jan.06, 2019: our article "Data-Driven Service Provisioning" [PDF] has been online published by Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer.