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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Incentive Mechanism Design for Joint Resource Allocation in Blockchain-based Federated Learning
Zhilin Wang, Qin Hu, Ruinian Li +2
Blockchain-based federated learning (BCFL) has recently gained tremendous attention because of its advantages such as decentralization and privacy protection of raw data. However,…
SPDL: Blockchain-secured and Privacy-preserving Decentralized Learning
Minghui Xu, Zongrui Zou, Ye Cheng +3
Decentralized learning involves training machine learning models over remote mobile devices, edge servers, or cloud servers while keeping data localized. Even though many studies h…
Blockchain and Federated Edge Learning for Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsensing
Qin Hu, Zhilin Wang, Minghui Xu +1
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) counting on the mobility of massive workers helps the requestor accomplish various sensing tasks with more flexibility and lower cost. However, for the co…
A Systematic Survey of Blockchained Federated Learning
Zhilin Wang, Qin Hu, Minghui Xu +3
With the technological advances in machine learning, effective ways are available to process the huge amount of data generated in real life. However, issues of privacy and scalabil…
Malware-on-the-Brain: Illuminating Malware Byte Codes with Images for Malware Classification
Fangtian Zhong, Zekai Chen, Minghui Xu +3
Malware is a piece of software that was written with the intent of doing harm to data, devices, or people. Since a number of new malware variants can be generated by reusing codes,…
Extending On-chain Trust to Off-chain -- Trustworthy Blockchain Data Collection using Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
Chunchi Liu, Hechuan Guo, Minghui Xu +4
Blockchain creates a secure environment on top of strict cryptographic assumptions and rigorous security proofs. It permits on-chain interactions to achieve trustworthy properties…
BLOWN: A Blockchain Protocol for Single-Hop Wireless Networks under Adversarial SINR
Minghui Xu, Feng Zhao, Yifei Zou +3
Known as a distributed ledger technology (DLT), blockchain has attracted much attention due to its properties such as decentralization, security, immutability and transparency, and…
Tokoin: A Coin-Based Accountable Access Control Scheme for Internet of Things
Chunchi Liu, Minghui Xu, Hechuan Guo +7
With the prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, IoT devices interact closely with our surrounding environments, bringing us unparalleled smartness and convenience. Ho…