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Past News

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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.