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OrbitBFT: Enabling Scalable and Robust BFT Consensus in LEO Constellations
Tianyi Sun, Shuo Liu, Minghui Xu +1
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are evolving from communication relays into autonomous platforms operating in increasingly congested and contested environments. Sinc…
Almost-Free Queue Jumping for Prior Inputs in Private Neural Inference
Qiao Zhang, Minghui Xu, Tingchuang Zhang +1
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning as a Service (PP-MLaaS) enables secure neural network inference by integrating cryptographic primitives such as homomorphic encryption (HE) and…
Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Wireless
Shuo Liu, Minghui Xu, Tianyi Sun +1
Asynchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, known for their robustness in unpredictable environments without relying on timing assumptions, are becoming increa…
Trinity: A Scalable and Forward-Secure DSSE for Spatio-Temporal Range Query
Zhijun Li, Kuizhi Liu, Minghui Xu +4
Cloud-based outsourced Location-based services have profound impacts on various aspects of people's lives but bring security concerns. Existing spatio-temporal data secure retrieva…
Partially Synchronous BFT Consensus Made Practical in Wireless Networks
Shuo Liu, Minghui Xu, Yuezhou Zheng +4
Consensus is becoming increasingly important in wireless networks. Partially synchronous BFT consensus, a significant branch of consensus, has made considerable progress in wired n…
EC-Chain: Cost-Effective Storage Solution for Permissionless Blockchains
Minghui Xu, Hechuan Guo, Ye Cheng +3
Permissionless blockchains face considerable challenges due to increasing storage demands, driven by the proliferation of Decentralized Applications (DApps). This paper introduces…
VMID: A Multimodal Fusion LLM Framework for Detecting and Identifying Misinformation of Short Videos
Weihao Zhong, Yinhao Xiao, Minghui Xu +1
Short video platforms have become important channels for news dissemination, offering a highly engaging and immediate way for users to access current events and share information.…
A Treatment of EIP-1559: Enhancing Transaction Fee Mechanism through Nth-Price Auction
Kun Li, Guangpeng Qi, Guangyong Shang +3
With the widespread adoption of blockchain technology, the transaction fee mechanism (TFM) in blockchain systems has become a prominent research topic. An ideal TFM should satisfy…
DataSafe: Copyright Protection with PUF Watermarking and Blockchain Tracking
Xiaolong Xue, Guangyong Shang, Zhen Ma +4
Digital watermarking methods are commonly used to safeguard digital media copyrights by confirming ownership and deterring unauthorized use. However, without reliable third-party o…
FileDES: A Secure Scalable and Succinct Decentralized Encrypted Storage Network
Minghui Xu, Jiahao Zhang, Hechuan Guo +5
Decentralized Storage Network (DSN) is an emerging technology that challenges traditional cloud-based storage systems by consolidating storage capacities from independent providers…
On Protecting the Data Privacy of Large Language Models (LLMs): A Survey
Biwei Yan, Kun Li, Minghui Xu +4
Large language models (LLMs) are complex artificial intelligence systems capable of understanding, generating and translating human language. They learn language patterns by analyz…
BFT-DSN: A Byzantine Fault Tolerant Decentralized Storage Network
Hechuan Guo, Minghui Xu, Jiahao Zhang +4
With the rapid development of blockchain and its applications, the amount of data stored on decentralized storage networks (DSNs) has grown exponentially. DSNs bring together affor…
FedRFQ: Prototype-Based Federated Learning with Reduced Redundancy, Minimal Failure, and Enhanced Quality
Biwei Yan, Hongliang Zhang, Minghui Xu +2
Federated learning is a powerful technique that enables collaborative learning among different clients. Prototype-based federated learning is a specific approach that improves the…
Spatial Crowdsourcing Task Allocation Scheme for Massive Data with Spatial Heterogeneity
Kun Li, Shengling Wang, Hongwei Shi +2
Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) engages large worker pools for location-based tasks, attracting growing research interest. However, prior SC task allocation approaches exhibit limitatio…
An Adaptive and Modular Blockchain Enabled Architecture for a Decentralized Metaverse
Ye Cheng, Yihao Guo, Minghui Xu +3
A metaverse breaks the boundaries of time and space between people, realizing a more realistic virtual experience, improving work efficiency, and creating a new business model. Blo…
PoFEL: Energy-efficient Consensus for Blockchain-based Hierarchical Federated Learning
Shengyang Li, Qin Hu, Zhilin Wang
Facilitated by mobile edge computing, client-edge-cloud hierarchical federated learning (HFL) enables communication-efficient model training in a widespread area but also incurs ad…
Straggler Mitigation and Latency Optimization in Blockchain-based Hierarchical Federated Learning
Zhilin Wang, Qin Hu, Minghui Xu +1
Cloud-edge-device hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has been recently proposed to achieve communication-efficient and privacy-preserving distributed learning. However, there ex…
Exploring Blockchain Technology through a Modular Lens: A Survey
Minghui Xu, Yihao Guo, Chunchi Liu +5
Blockchain has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize various industries by providing trustlessness. To comprehensively examine block…
Meta Computing
Xiuzhen Cheng, Minghui Xu, Runyu Pan +4
With the continuous improvement of information infrastructures, academia and industry have been constantly exploring new computing paradigms to fully exploit computing powers. In t…
FileDAG: A Multi-Version Decentralized Storage Network Built on DAG-based Blockchain
Hechuan Guo, Minghui Xu, Jiahao Zhang +4
Decentralized Storage Networks (DSNs) can gather storage resources from mutually untrusted providers and form worldwide decentralized file systems. Compared to traditional storage…
Cross-Channel: Scalable Off-Chain Channels Supporting Fair and Atomic Cross-Chain Operations
Yihao Guo, Minghui Xu, Dongxiao Yu +3
Cross-chain technology facilitates the interoperability among isolated blockchains on which users can freely communicate and transfer values. Existing cross-chain protocols suffer…
A Trustless Architecture of Blockchain-enabled Metaverse
Minghui Xu, Yihao Guo, Qin Hu +3
Metaverse has rekindled human beings' desire to further break space-time barriers by fusing the virtual and real worlds. However, security and privacy threats hinder us from buildi…
zk-PCN: A Privacy-Preserving Payment Channel Network Using zk-SNARKs
Wenxuan Yu, Minghui Xu, Dongxiao Yu +3
Payment channel network (PCN) is a layer-two scaling solution that enables fast off-chain transactions but does not involve on-chain transaction settlement. PCNs raise new privacy…
Blockchain-based Edge Resource Sharing for Metaverse
Zhilin Wang, Qin Hu, Minghui Xu +1
Although Metaverse has recently been widely studied, its practical application still faces many challenges. One of the severe challenges is the lack of sufficient resources for com…