Past Activities

Activities of 2022-2024

  • May. 11, 2024: We organized an academic forum on blockchain at the international conference CCF ICSS 2024. See more details in our blog: http://xintelligence.pro/archives/1280
  • Apr. 23, 2024: Good News! We’ve got 3 papers accepted by ICDCS 2024! Congrats to team members Dr. Taotao Li, Jialiang Liu, and Chun Wang. [论文介绍-微信公众号文章]
  • Feb. 9, 2024: Good News! Dr. Huawei Huang’s Google Scholar citations hit 5000!
  • Jan. 2024: Dr. Huawei Huang has been invited to be a TPC track co-chair for the IEEE Global Blockchain Conference (GBC). This conference will be held in Shanghai on August 21-23, 2024. [ TPC ]
  • Jan. 12, 2024: Dr. Huawei Huang has been 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 ]
  • Dec. 1, 2023: Great News! Our 2 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 student Mr. Yue Lin (林岳). Good job! [论文介绍-知乎专栏文章]
  • Oct. 26, 2023: Dr. Huawei Huang is invited to give a talk in the forum of Web3 at CNCC 2023, City Shenyang. Title of talk “Building Infrastructure for Web3: Blockchain Sharding Studies”.
  • Oct. 11, 2023: Good News! Dr. Huawei Huang has been recognized in the World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists (October 2023).
  • Sep. 6, 2023: Good News! Dr. Huawei Huang has been appointed Youth Editorial Board Member for the ELSP Journal Blockchain (ISSN 2959-1260).
  • Aug. 17, 2023: HuangLab has organized 2 academic forums on blockchain at two prestigious CCF conferences. See more details in our blog: http://xintelligence.pro/archives/1175
  • May. 13, 2023: Great News! We made our experimental tool (named blockEmulator) open-source. Visit our websites –>> www.blockEmulator.com , and https://github.com/HuangLab-SYSU/block-emulator (Github page).
  • 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). [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). Congratulations to Mr. Jian Zheng (郑简)! [论文介绍] [公众号介绍文章]
  • Mar. 30, 2023: Great News! Our paper “tMPT: Reconfiguration across Blockchain Shards via Trimmed Merkle Patricia Trie” has been accepted by IEEE IWQoS 2023! Congratulations to Yetong (赵烨彤), good job! [论文介绍]
  • Feb. 20, 2023: Great 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, Prof. Huawei Huang delivered an online talk titled “Exploring Blockchain Scalability using Sharding Techniques” on Feb. 23, 2023. [IEEE Event page]
  • Jan. 28, 2023: Great News! Dr. 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: Dr. Huawei Huang will publish his first science book, From Blockchain to Web3, in April 2023. Feel free to download the preview version of this book from [blog page].
  • Dec. 5, 2022: Dr. Huawei Huang was invited to serve IEEE SERVICES 2023 as one of the Congress Advisory Program Chairs. [URL]
  • July 1st, 2022: Good News!  Dr. Huang has been elevated to IEEE senior member.
  • Dec 28, 2022: 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: Good News! Our paper titled “BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding” has been accepted by INFOCOM 2022. [ResearchGate Page],  [公众号介绍文章]

Activities of 2021-2022

  • 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]

Activities of 2021

Nov 12, 2021: Prof. Huawei Huang is organizing a special issue on Fusing Blockchain with Metaverse at the journal IEEE OJ-CS. Welcome to submit your papers to our SI. [CFP]

Aug 15, 2021: Prof. Huawei Huang is organizing a special issue on Intelligent Blockchain at the top-tier journal IEEE JSAC (CCF-A). Welcome to submit your high-quality papers. [CFP]

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

Aug 3, 2021: Due to the invitation from Dr. Zehui Xiong, who is an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), today I delivered a talk titled "Blockchain Sharding and Recent Studies" at Zehui's Blockchain Technology Course. In this talk, I first introduced the preliminaries of blockchain sharding, then presented the committee's scheduling problem towards the 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 (CCF-B) 2021 as a short paper. Congratulations to Mr. Jian Zheng (visiting student), and Mr. Canlin Li (master-program student). [PDF] [Slides]

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

Feb. 20, 2021: Prof. Huawei Huang is invited to serve as the leading operation committee member for the inaugural IEEE Symposium on Blockchain at IEEE SERVICES 2021.

Activities of 2020

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.22-2020: Congratulations to Zhenyi Huang! Our paper "Proactive Failure Recovery for Stateful NFV" has been accepted as a FULL PAPER by ICPADS 2020.
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]
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 made our latest blockchain survey titled "A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools” available on 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 --> [CFP]
10-March-2020: "When Blockchain Meets Distributed File Systems: An Overview, Challenges, and Open Issues" is finally published.[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]
17-Jan-2020: The dataset for the paper entitled “Proactive Failure Recovery for NFV in Distributed Edge Computing” has been released on the Datasets page.
12-Jan-2020: Our paper entitled "Solutions to Scalability of Blockchain: A Survey" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. [PDF]

Activities of 2019

  • 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.
  • 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 (IF3.03, CCF-B).
  • Dec. 17th, 2019, our paper entitled “Machine Fault Detection for Intelligent Self-Driving Networks” [RG-Page PDF] has been publised by IEEE Communications Magazine with DOI:10.1109/MCOM.001.1900283
  • Oct. 14, 2019, our paper entitled “Real-Time Fault-Detection for IIoT Facilities using GBRBM-based DNN” [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 [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.

One of my journal papers reaches 800 reads in ResearchGate!

This paper entitled “Near-Optimal Routing Protection for In-Band Software-Defined Heterogeneous Networks“, which was published by IEEE JSAC in 2016, studies the dynamic routing scheduling for the in-band controller-to-switch control channels of SDN. We proposed a near-optimal performance-guaranteed scheduling algorithm. 

By Huawei Huang, Dec. 19th, 2019

一篇关于NFV的长文正式发表在IEEE TCC

Dec. 10, 2019, by Huawei Huang，具体内容请移步 Blogs 页面查阅。

    很高兴看到我们一篇关于网络功能虚拟化（NFV）的长文正式发表在 IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) 期刊上。文章信息如下：

旧论文整理：对基于低轨卫星的大数据存储的展望

By Huawei Huang, Dec. 17th, 2019，具体内容请移步 Blogs 页面查阅。

整理论文发现，2018年2月我们有一篇发表在 IEEE Wireless Communications (中科院一区期刊，IF=11.0) 题目为 “Envision of Wireless Big Data Storage for Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite-based Cloud” 的mini综述论文。 [附件下载：IEEE-WCM-2018Huang-Envisioned.pdf ] [ResearchGate page’s URL ]