Publications

Journals

• Yingwen Chen, Linghang Meng, Huan Zhou, Guangtao Xue. “A Blockchain-Based Medical Data Sharing Mechanism with Attribute-Based Access Control and Privacy Protection.” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Hindawi, 2021. (corresponding author) [CCF C]

• Huan Zhou, Zeshun Shi, Xue Ouyang, Zhiming Zhao. “Building a blockchain-based decentralized ecosystem for cloud and edge computing: an ALLSTAR approach and empirical study.” Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. Springer, 2021. [CCF C]

• Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Xue Ouyang, Jinshu Su, Spiros Koulouzis, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “CloudsStorm: A Framework for Seamlessly Programming and Controlling Virtual Infrastructure Functions during the DevOps Lifecycle of Cloud Applications.” Software: Practice and Experience. Wiley, 2019. [CCF B]

• Haiwen Chen, Huan Zhou, Jiaping Yu, Kui Wu, Fang Liu, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai. “Trusted audit with untrusted auditors: A decentralized data integrity Crowdauditing approach based on blockchain.” International Journal of Intelligent Systems. Wiley, 2021.

• Haiwen Chen, Jiaping Yu, Huan Zhou, Tongqing Zhou, Fang Liu, Zhiping Cai. “SmartStore: A blockchain and clustering based intelligent edge storage system with fairness and resilience.” International Journal of Intelligent Systems. Wiley, 2021.

• Rafael Brundo Uriarte, Huan Zhou, Kyriakos Kritikos, Zeshun Shi, Zhiming Zhao, and Rocco De Nicola. “Distributed service‐level agreement management with smart contracts and blockchain.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Wiley, 2020(e5800). [CCF C]

• Huan Zhou, Xue Ouyang, Jinshu Su, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Enforcing Trustworthy Cloud SLA with Witnesses: A Game Theory based Model using Smart Contracts.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Wiley, 2019. [CCF C]

• Spiros Koulouzis, Paul Martin, Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Junchao Wang, Thierry Carval, Baptiste Grenier, Jani Heikkinen, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Time‐critical data management in clouds: Challenges and a Dynamic Real‐Time Infrastructure Planner (DRIP) solution.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Wiley, 2019. [CCF C; co-first author]

• Yang Hu, Huan Zhou, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Concurrent container scheduling on heterogeneous clusters with multi-resource constraints.” Future Generation Computer Systems. 102 pp: 562-573. Elsevier, 2019.

• Xiaofeng Wang, Huan Zhou, Jinshu Su, Baosheng Wang, Qianqian Xing, and Pengkun Li. “T-IP: A Self-Trustworthy and Secure Internet Protocol.” China Communications. Vol. 15, No. 2, pp: 1-14. IEEE, 2018.

• Junchao Wang, Arie Taal, Paul Martin, Yang Hu, Huan Zhou, Jianmin Pang, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Planning virtual infrastructures for time critical applications with multiple deadline constraints.” Future Generation Computer Systems. Vol. 75, pp: 365-375. Elsevier, 2017.

• Huan Zhou, Xiaofeng Wang, and Jinshu Su. “An Efficient Identity Based Key Agreement Protocol in a Multiple PKG Environment.” Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences. Vol. 19, No. 5, pp: 455-460. Springer, 2014.

• Xiaofeng Wang, Peixin Chen, Huan Zhou, and Jinshu Su. “T-HIBE: A Trustworthy and Secure Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption System.” Acta Electronica Sinica. Vol. 44, No. 7, pp: 1521-1529. 2016. [in Chinese, 一种可信安全的层次式基于身份加密系统]

• Xue Ouyang, Huan Zhou, Jinzhou Deng, and Jiangchun Ren. “Design and implementation of a software life cycle oriented authorization and protection system.” The Journal of Computer Engineering and Science. Vol. 35, No. 4, pp: 59-64. 2013. [in Chinese, 一种面向软件生命周期的授权保护系统设计与实现]

Conferences

• Huan Zhou, Xue Ouyang, Zhijie Ren, Jinshu Su, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “A Blockchain based Witness Model for Trustworthy Cloud Service Level Agreement Enforcement.” In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications(INFOCOM). pp: 1567-1575. IEEE, April 29 - May 2, 2019, Paris. [CCF A, acceptance rate: 19.67%, best in session presentation]
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• Huajian Wang, Huan Zhou, Guogui Yang, Tao Xiao. “DCrowd: A Decentralized Service Model for Credible Crowdsourcing Based on Game Theory and Smart Contracts.” International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). IEEE, 2021. [CCF C]

• Zeshun Shi, Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Jayachander Surbiryala, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Operating Permissioned Blockchain in Clouds: A Performance Study of Hyperledger Sawtooth.”, In 18th IEEE International Symposium On Parallel And Distributed Computing (ISPDC). IEEE, Jun. 5-7, 2019, Amsterdam.

• Zeshun Shi, Siamak Farshidi, Huan Zhou, Zhiming Zhao. “An Auction and Witness Enhanced Trustworthy SLA Model for Decentralized Cloud Marketplaces.” Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT). ACM, 2021. [CCF C]

• Huan Zhou, Xue Ouyang, and Zhiming Zhao. “ALLSTAR: a blockchain based decentralized ecosystem for cloud and edge computing.” IEEE International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing (JCC). IEEE, 2020.

• Huan Zhou, Zeshun Shi, Yang Hu, Pieter Donkers, Andrey Afanasyev, Spiros Koulouzis, Arie Taal, Alexandre Ulisses, and Zhiming Zhao. “Large distributed virtual infrastructure partitioning and provisioning across providers.” IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT). IEEE, 2019. [Best student paper candidate]

• Huan Zhou, Spiros Koulouzis, Yang Hu, Junchao Wang, Alexandre Ulisses, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Migrating live streaming applications onto clouds: challenges and a CloudStorm solution.” Workshop on Cloud-Native Applications Design and Experience (CNAX), 11th IEEE/ACM conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC Companion). pp: 321-326. IEEE, Dec. 17-20, 2018, Zurich.

• Huan Zhou, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Trustworthy Cloud Service Level Agreement Enforcement with Blockchain based Smart Contract.” International workshop on resource brokering with blockchain (RBChain), 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom). IEEE, Dec. 10-13, 2019, Cyprus.

• Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Jinshu Su, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “CloudsStorm: An Application-driven Framework to Enhance the Programmability and Controllability of Cloud Virtual Infrastructures.” International conference on Cloud Computing. pp: 265-280. Springer, Jun. 25-30, 2018, Seattle.

• Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Jinshu Su, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Empowering Dynamic Task-based Applications with Agile Virtual Infrastructure Programmability.” IEEE International conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD). pp: 484-491. IEEE, Jul. 2-7, 2018, San Francisco. [CCF C]

• Yang Hu, Huan Zhou, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao. “ECSched: Efficient Container Scheduling on Heterogeneous Clusters.” 24th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par). pp: 365-377. Springer, Aug. 27-31, 2018, Turin. [CCF C]

• Xue Ouyang, Huan Zhou, Stephen Clement, Paul Townend, Jie Xu. “Mitigate Data Skew Caused Stragglers through ImKP Partition in MapReduce.” IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC). pp: 1-8. IEEE, Dec. 10-12, 2017, San Diego. [CCF C]

• Yang Hu, Junchao Wang, Huan Zhou, Paul Martin, Arie Taal, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Deadline-aware Deployment for Time Critical Applications in Clouds.” 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par). pp: 345-357. IEEE, Aug. 30 - Sep. 1, 2017, Santiago de Compostela. [CCF C]

• Huan Zhou, Paul Martin, Jinshu Su, and Cees de Laat. “A Flexible Inter-locale Virtual Cloud For Nearly Real-time Big Data Application.” Interoperable infrastructures for interdisciplinary big data sciences workshop (IT4RIs), IEEE Real Time System Symposium (RTSS). IEEE, Nov. 29 - Dec. 2, 2016, Porto.

• Huan Zhou, Junchao Wang, Yang Hu, Jinshu Su, Paul Martin, Cees de Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Fast Resource Co-provisioning for Time Critical Applications Based on Networked Infrastructures.” IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD). pp: 802-805. IEEE, Jun. 27 - Jul. 2, 2016, San Francisco. [CCF C]

• Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Junchao Wang, Paul Martin, Cees De Laat, and Zhiming Zhao. “Fast and Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Quality Critical Cloud Applications.” IEEE 19th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC). pp: 92-99. IEEE, May 17-20, 2016, York.

• Huan Zhou, and Jiangchun Ren. “A Secure Virtual Data Center based on Data Labeled Cloud-agent.” 5th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS). pp: 937-940. IEEE, Jun. 27-29, 2014, Beijing.

• Huan Zhou, Xiaofeng Wang, and Jinshu Su. “A General Self-Adaptive Reputation System Based on the Kalman Feedback.” 6th International Conference on Service Science (ICSS). pp: 7-12. IEEE, Apr. 11-13, 2013, Shenzhen.

Book Chapters

• Xiaofeng Wang, Jinshu Su, Xiaofeng Hu, Chunqing Wu, and Huan Zhou. “Trust Model for Cloud Systems with Self Variance Evaluation.” Security, Privacy and Trust in Cloud Systems. pp. 283-309. Springer, 2014.

Magazines

• Jinshu Su, Huan Zhou, Baokang Zhao, and Biao Han. “A Survey of EU Network Technique and Research Trends.” Communications of the CCF. Vol. 14, No. 3, pp: 54-58, 2018. [in Chinese, 欧盟网络技术研究进展综述]

Posters

• Huan Zhou, Paul Martin, and Cees de Laat. “CloudsStorm: An Application-driven DevOps Framework for Managing Networked Infrastructures on Federated Clouds.” The Conference for ICT-Research in the Netherlands (ICT Open). Mar 2018, Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
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• Huan Zhou, Paul Martin, and Cees de Laat. “A network transparent solution for flexibly provisioning connected virtual infrastructure across multiple data centers.” Cloud Forward. Oct 2016, Madrid, Spain. (It is also presented at ICT Open 2017 in Amersfoort, the Netherlands)
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• Peixin Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Yilun Wu, Jinshu Su, and Huan Zhou. “iPKI Identity-based Private Key Infrastructure for Securing BGP Protocol.” 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). pp: 1632-1634. ACM, Nov. 2015, Denver.

• Xiaofeng Wang, Huan Zhou, Jinshu Su, et al. “T-IP: A Self-Trustworthy and Secure Internet Protocol with Full Compliance to TCP/IP.” 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). pp: 1520-1522. ACM, Nov. 2014, Scottsdale.

Thesis

• PhD thesis. “Seamless Infrastructure Programming and Control for Quality-critical Cloud Applications.” Oct. 2019, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• Master thesis. “Research and Implementation on Self-trustworthy and Lightweight Network Transport Mechanism.” Nov. 2014, Changsha, China. [in Chinese, 轻量级的网络自信任传输机制研究与实现]

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile