Xiuzhen Cheng

An Attribute & Network Coding-Based Secure Multicast Protocol for Firmware Updates in Smart Grid AMI Networks

2017

Smart meters operate based on their firmware ruling the hardware. The firmware occasionally needs to be updated to fix bugs and improve the services. Since the smart meter firmware is proprietary, the update file should …

DCAP

2021

User response prediction, which aims to predict the probability that a user will provide a predefined positive response in a given context such as clicking on an ad or purchasing an item, is crucial to …

A cloud-based framework for verifiable privacy-preserving spectrum auction

2021 · High-Confidence Computing

Spectrum auction is one of the most effective ways to achieve dynamic spectrum allocation in cognitive radio networks , and it provides one effective way to manage the spectrum demands of IoT devices with limited …

Malice-Aware Transaction Forwarding in Payment Channel Networks

2021

Scalability has long been a major challenge of cryptocurrency systems, which is mainly caused by the delay in reaching consensus when processing transactions on-chain. As an effective mitigation approach, the payment channel networks (PCN) enable …

A trustless architecture of blockchain-enabled metaverse

2022 · High-Confidence Computing

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 building a utopia. A metaverse embraces various techniques, while …

Federating to Grow Transformers with Constrained Resources without Model Sharing

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The high resource consumption of large-scale models discourages resource-constrained users from developing their customized transformers. To this end, this paper considers a federated framework named Fed-Grow for multiple participants to cooperatively scale a transformer from …

Starfish: Rebalancing Multi-Party Off-Chain Payment Channels

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Blockchain technology has revolutionized the way transactions are executed, but scalability remains a major challenge. Payment Channel Network (PCN), as a Layer-2 scaling solution, has been proposed to address this issue. However, skewed payments can …