Xiaofei Luo, Huawei Huang*(黄华威,通讯作者), Jian Zheng, Baozhou Xie, “Folium: Decoupling Transaction Execution from Consensus via Follower Nodes in a Blockchain,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026.
Sihua Wang (本科3年级同学), Jian Zheng, Huawei Huang*(黄华威,通讯作者), “Justitia-L: Budget-Constrained Fairness Optimization in Sharded Blockchains via Lagrangian Dual Control,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026.
Huawei Huang*(黄华威,通讯作者), Jian Zheng, Qinde Chen, Yuting Yang, “Aiming Low-Latency Atomicity for Cross-Shard Transactions in a Sharding Blockchain,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026.
2024年12月6日,INFOCOM 2025结果公布,中山大学软件工程学院黄华威研究组(HuangLab)与北航、新加坡科技设计大学、香港浸会大学、新加坡南洋理工大学合作的两篇区块链分片机制的论文被接收。INFOCOM 全称为 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 是CCF-A类计算机网络领域顶会。INFOCOM 2025年的论文接收率为 272/1458 = 18.65%。
两篇被接收论文信息如下。
[论文1] Jian Zheng (郑简), Huawei Huang* (黄华威,通讯作者), Yinqiu Liu (刘寅秋), Taotao Li (李涛涛), Hong-Ning Dai (戴弘宁), Zibin Zheng (郑子彬), “Justitia: An Incentive Mechanism towards the Fairness of Cross-shard Transactions,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’25), May 19-22, 2025, London, United Kingdom.
[论文2] Xinpeng Huang (黄鑫鹏), Wanqing Jie (揭晚晴), Shiwen Zhang (张诗雯), Haofu Yang (杨浩甫), Wangjie Qiu (邱望洁,通讯作者), Qinnan Zhang (张沁楠,通讯作者), Huawei Huang (黄华威), Zehui Xiong (熊泽辉), Shaoting Tang (唐绍婷), Hongwei Zheng (郑宏威), Zhiming Zheng (郑志明), “ContribChain: A Stress-Balanced Blockchain Sharding Protocol with Node Contribution Awareness”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’25), May 19-22, 2025, London, United Kingdom.
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