HuangLab

Together, we make this world a better place.

News

  • Feb. 16, 2023: Great News! Invited by IEEE New Zealand North Section Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Group, Prof. Huawei Huang will give an online talk titled “Exploring Blockchain Scalability using Sharding Techniques” on Feb. 23, 2023. [ IEEE Event page ]
  • Jan. 28, 2023: Great News! Prof. Huawei Huang has been invited to serve as an editorial board member for the Journal of Blockchains (ISSN 2813-5288) [Editorial Board].
  • Jan. 19, 2023: Great News! Prof. Huawei Huang will publish his first-ever science book titled From Blockchain to Web3 in April 2023. Feel free to download the preview version of this book from [blog page].
  • Dec. 22, 2022: Great News! Our paper “From Technology to Society: An Overview of Blockchain-Based DAO,” wins the 2021 Best Paper Award runner-up from IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS). This award is recognized by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board. [Paper]
  • 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 from [arXiv page].
  • Dec. 5, 2022: I am invited to serve IEEE SERVICES 2023 as one of the Congress Advisory Program Chairs. [URL]
  • Nov. 7, 2022: We have published a survey article related to Web3, titled “When Digital Economy Meets Web3.0: Applications and Challenges“. [arXiv page]
  • Aug 26, 2022: Breaking News!  We have released the white paper of our recent project titled “Consensusless Blockchain (CB chain)”, which is promising to lead the next-generation blockchain protocols in the era of Web3. See our white paper from [ arXiv link ].
  • July 1st, 2022: Good News!  Prof. Huang has 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). [公众号介绍文章]
  • Apr 4th, 2022: Good News! Our paper “ContextFL: Context-aware Federated Learning by Estimating the Training and Reporting Phases of Mobile Clients” is accepted by ICDCS 2022. [公众号介绍文章]
  • Feb. 14th, 2022: CFP: Special Issue on Fusing Blockchain and AI with Metaverse: Technologies, Trends, and Applications [CFP]
  • Jan 16, 2022: Good News!  Prof. Huang’s google scholar has hit the milestone of 2000 citations!
  • Dec 28, 2021: Good News!  Our paper titled “Elastic Resource Allocation against Imbalanced Transaction Assignments in Sharding-based Permissioned Blockchains” has been published by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). [Paper],  [公众号介绍文章]
  • Dec 3rd, 2021: Great News! Our paper titled “BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding” is accepted by INFOCOM 2022. [ResearchGate Page],  [公众号介绍文章]

About the Lab Director

  • Dr. Huawei HUANG earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu (Japan). He has served as a research fellow of JSPS, a visiting scholar at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a program-specific Assistant Professor at Kyoto University (Japan).
  • Huawei Huang is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Software Engineering (SSE), Sun Yat-Sen University, China.
  • Academic Pages: ResearchGate, Google Scholar
  • Podcast of Blockchain & Web3 (In Chinese)

Research Interests

  • The research interests of HuangLab mainly include
    • High-Performance Blockchains (Layer1 & Layer2 protocols),
    • Distributed Computing and Protocols.

Awards and Honors

  • Dec. 2022: 2021 Best Paper Award runner-up from IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS)
  • Dec. 2021: Receiving a CCF-Huawei Industrial Fund on Blockchain
  • Aug. 2016: Best Paper Award of IEEE TrustCom2016 

Fundings and Grants

  1. NSFC, General Program, Blockchain’s scalability, FY2023-2026, PI
  2. National Key & Dev. Program of China, Blockchain’s scalability, FY2022-2025, Co-PI
  3. CCF-Huawei Industrial Project, Blockchain’s scalability, FY2022-2023, PI
  4. National Key & Dev. Program of China, Federated Learning, FY2021-2023, Co-PI
  5. NSFC of Young Scientist Program, Edge Computing, FY2020-2022, PI
  6. Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, FY2019-2022, PI
  7. Guangzhou Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, FY2021-2023, PI
  8. Fundamental Research Funds for the Top Universities of China, FY2019-2021, PI
  9. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, FY2019-2022, PI
  10. Kyoto University Research Fund for Young Scientists (Start-up), FY 2018, JPY ¥830K, PI
  11. JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows)
    • Project Number: JP16J07062, PI
    • Project Period: April 2016 ~ March 2018
    • Research Title: “Joint Optimization of Routing and Protection for Software-Defined Networking”
    • Budge Amount: JPY ¥1,300K
  12. JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists
    • Detail: JSPS Research Fellowship is awarded to young researchers in Japan who demonstrate their excellent research.
    • Amount: ¥4,800K JPY (Apr 2016 – Mar 2018)

Selected Publications

(* represents the corresponding author)

2022:

  • Huawei Huang, Xiaowen Peng, Jianzhou Zhan, Shenyang Zhang, Yue Lin, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding”, INFOCOM, May 2022.  (CCF-A, Top-tier Conference) [ResearchGate Page],  [公众号介绍文章]
  • Huawei Huang, Zhengyu Yue, Xiaowen Peng, Liuding He, Wuhui Chen, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Elastic Resource Allocation against Imbalanced Transaction Assignments in Sharding-based Permissioned Blockchains”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 33, No. 10, pp.2372 –2385, Oct. 2022.  (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [ResearchGate Page],  [公众号介绍文章]
  • Huawei Huang, Ruixin Li, Jialiang Liu, Sicong Zhou, Kangying Lin, and Zibin Zheng, “ContextFL: Context-aware Federated Learning by Estimating the Training and Reporting Phases of Mobile Clients”, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2022. [公众号介绍文章]
  • Canlin Li, Huawei Huang*, Yetong Zhao, Xiaowen Peng, Ruijie Yang, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Achieving Scalability and Load Balance across Blockchain Shards for State Sharding”, the 41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2022. [公众号介绍文章]

2021:

  • Huawei Huang, Zhenyi Huang, Xiaowen Peng, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “MVCom: Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Large-Scale Sharded Blockchain”, ICDCS, July 2021.  (Top-tier conference in the field of Distributed Computing and Systems)  [PDF] [Slides] [公众号介绍文章]
  • Jian Zheng, Canlin Li, Huawei Huang*, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Revisiting Double-Spending Attacks on the Bitcoin Blockchain: New Findings“, IWQoS 2021 (CCF-B). [Slides]
  • Huawei Huang, Wei Kong, Sicong Zhou, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools”, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 54, no. 2, March 2021. (IF: 7.99). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03520

2020:

  • Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Kun Wang, and Yasuo Okabe, “Coflow-like Online Data Acquisition from Low-Earth-Orbit Datacenters“, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume: 19, Issue: 12, pp.2743 – 2760, Dec. 1, 2020. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [PDF]
  • Sicong Zhou, Huawei Huang*, Wuhui Chen, Pan Zhou, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “PIRATE: A Blockchain-based Secure Framework of Distributed Machine Learning in 5G Networks“, IEEE Network, 2020. [PDF]

Prior to 2018:

  • [1] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Keqiu Li, Baoliu Ye and Weihua Zhuang, “Near-Optimal Routing Protection for In-Band Software-Defined Heterogeneous Networks”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 7421-7432, October 2016. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [PDF]
  • [2] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Peng Li, Weifa Liang and Albert Y. Zomaya, “Cost Minimization for Rule Caching in Software Defined Networking”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1007-1016, April 2016. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [PDF]
  • [3] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Peng Li, Baoliu Ye and Ivan Stojmenovic, “Joint Optimization of Rule Placement and Traffic Engineering for QoS Provisioning in Software Defined Network”, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 3488-3499, Dec. 2015. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [PDF]
  • [4] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Jinsong Wu and Jie Li, “Service Chaining for Hybrid Network Functions”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1082-1094, Oct-Dec 2019. [PDF]
  • [5] Huawei Huang, Peng Li, Song Guo, Weifa Liang and Kun Wang, “Near-Optimal Deployment of Service Chains by Exploiting Correlations between Network Functions”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2017.2780165 [PDF]