Keynote Speaker
Prof. Zhihan Lv

Prof. Zhihan Lv

Associate Professor
School of Data Science and Software Engineering, Qingdao University, China
Speech Title: An Optimized Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm For Consortium Blockchain

Abstract: According to different application scenarios of blockchain system, it is generally divided into public chain, private chain and consortium chain. Consortium chain is a typical multi-center blockchain, because it has better landing, it is supported by more and more enterprises and governments. We analyze the advantages and problems of PBFT algorithm for the application scenarios of the consortium chain. In order to be more suitable for consortium chains, we propose a new optimized consensus algorithm based on PBFT. Aiming at the shortcomings of PBFT, such as the inability to dynamically join nodes, low multi-node consensus efficiency, and primary master node selection, our optimized algorithm has designed a hierarchical structure to increase scalability and improve consensus efficiency. The simulation results show that compared with PBFT and RAFT, our new consensus algorithm increases the data throughput while supporting more nodes, and effectively reducing the consensus delay and the number of communication times between nodes.


Biography: Dr. Zhihan Lv, ACM Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Senior Member and British Computer Society Fellow. He received joint PhD. degree from Ocean University of China and the University of Paris. He has served as a research engineer at the French National Research Center in France, a postdoctoral fellow at Umeå University in Sweden, a experienced researcher at the FIVAN Foundation in Spain, a postdoctoral fellow at University College London in UK, a postdoctor at the University of Barcelona in Spain, and an research assistant professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a Marie Curie Fellow in European Union's Seventh Framework Program LANPERCEPT. He has published more than 270 high-quality papers in virtual reality, Internet of Things, big data and other fields, in which 43 papers were published in the top journal IEEE/ACM Transactions.

Research in recent years has been published in IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE TFS, IEEE TSMC, IEEE TETC, IEEE TBD, IEEE JSAC, IEEE JSTSP, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMAG, IEEE Network, ACM TOMM, ACM TOIT, ACM TIST, and conferences such as ACM MM, ACM CHI, ACM Siggraph Asia, ICCV, IEEE Virtual Reality. Published more than ten highly cited papers and one hot paper.

He won the "Best idea" award in the UMINOVA academic business competition in Sweden, the grand prize in the "Challenge Cup" entrepreneurial plan competition in China, the "Chunhui Cup" award in the innovation and entrepreneurship competition for Chinese overseas students, the third prize in the China "Challenge Cup" extracurricular academic technology competition, the third prize of Shandong Province Graduate Student Outstanding Scientific and Technological Innovation Achievement Award, the third prize of Shandong Province Higher Education Institution Humanities and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2020 Qingdao University Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award.

Dr. Zhihan Lv served as editorial board member of journals, including Plos one, IEEE Access, IET Image Processing, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and Neurocomputing. Served as the Lead Guest Editor of several well-known journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Future Generation Computer Systems, Neurocomputing and Applications, Neurocomputing, etc., organized more than 40 special issues. Served as the vice chair and TPC members of ACM IUI 2015-2021, IEEE INFOCOM 2020 workshop, ACM MobiCom 2020 workshop, IEEE VTC2017-Fall, IEEE CHASE Workshop 2016, 2017, IEEE/CIC WIN Workshop 2016, ISAIR2021. In 2018, he won the IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor Award.

Dr. Zhihan Lv has reviewed more than 260 manuscripts for high-level journals and conferences, including IEEE TMM, ACM TOMM, IEEE TII, IEEE TBD, IEEE TMC, IEEE TLT, IEEE TETC, IEEE TC, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TITS, IEEE/ACM TCBB, ACM TOIT, IEEE Network, IEEE MultiMedia, IEEE IOTJ and other journals and ACM MUM, ACM CHI, ACM DIS, IEEE EuroVis, ACM UIST, ACM MobileHCI, ACM CHIPLAY, ACM CSCW, ACM SUI, ACM ITS, IEEE VAST, IEEE VR, ACM IUI, IEEE 3DUI, ACM TVX, ACM Creativity & Cognition, ACM EICS, ACM IDC, IEEE ICSIPA, GI, IEEE ITSC, IEEE Sensors, ACM ACI, ACM VRST, ACM ISS, ACM HRI and other conferences. He is the reviewer of the Swiss National Natural Science Foundation.