About me

I’m Haoxiang Luo, received Ph.D. degree in 2025 with the major of Information and Communication Engineering from the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, advised by Prof. Hongfang Yu and Prof. Gang Sun.

Before that, I obtaied my B.Eng. degree from the Glasgow College, UESTC, which is a join programme between the UESTC and the University of Glasgow (UoG), UK, under the guidance of Prof. Weijian Chen.

At this moment, my research interests are Blockchain, Internet of Things, Networks, Trustworthy LLM, Energy Informatics, and so on. Also, I am currently a Visiting Student at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, under the guidance of Prof. Dusit Niyato, in 2025.

Call for Papers

  1. IEEE IWCMC Workshop on “AI Large Model-enabled Trustworthy Wireless Networks (LMTWN)”, Co-Chair.

  2. IEEE DLCV Workshop on “Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) Collaboration Theory and Applications”, Co-Chair.

  3. IEEE IoTIR Workshop on “Embodied Intelligence Empowered Internet of Things: Key Technologies and Practical Applications”, Co-Chair.

Awards

2025 Standford World’s ToP 2% Scientist

2025 Doctoral Student Program of the Young S&T Cultivation Project, CAST

2025 Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) Blockchain Society Best Paper Award

2026 IEEE TCCN Popular Article

2025 IEEE DLCV Best Paper Award

2025 IEEE TNSE Exemplery Reviewer

2024 IEEE IoTM Exemplery Reviewer

2024 IEEE Globecom Travel Grant

3 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 2 ESI Hot Papers

Working Experience

Teaching Assistant

From September 2023 to the present, I serve as a Lead TA in the Information Security course at the University of Glasgow, UK., under the guidance of Dr. Faisal Tariq and Dr. Yao Sun.

From February to June 2024, I serve as a only TA in the Information Theory course at the UESTC, under the guidance of Prof. Weijian Chen, who is the Chair Professor of teaching in our School.

From September to December 2021, I serve as a TA in the Computer Communication Network course at the UESTC, under the guidance of Prof. Jingshan Duan, who is the Chair Professor of experiment in our School.

Research Assistant

From May to July 2022, I worked as RA in Siemens Ltd., China Chengdu Branch to carry out research on edge computing for Industrial Internet of Things.

From July to December 2020, I worked as a RA in Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute to carry out research on Vehicle to Grid (V2G), under the leadership of Dr. Wei Xiao.

From May to November 2019, I worked as RA in Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Power System Wide-Area Measurement and Control to carry out research on Energy Internet under the guidance of IEEE Fellow, Prof. Qi Huang.

Publications

Books:

  1. Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Things: The Perspective of Broadcasting, Cryptography, Consensus and Sharding
    Haoxiang Luo, Hongfang Yu
    Eliva Press Europe, 2023

  2. Cryptanalysis of a Class of Lightweight Block Cipher: And Its Application in Identity Authentication
    Haoxiang Luo, Weijian Chen, Hongfang Yu
    Eliva Press Europe, 2024

Journal Papers:

  1. Real-World Asset Integration in Next-Generation Communication Networks: Fundamental, Framework, and Case Study
    Tingxuan Su, Haoxiang Luo*, Ruichen Zhang, Yinqiu Liu, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato
    IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag), under review | paper

  2. AgentVNE: LLM-Augmented Graph Reinforcement Learning for Affinity-Aware Multi-Agent Placement in Edge Agentic AI
    Runze Zheng, Yuqing Zheng, Zhengyi Cheng, Long Luo, Haoxiang Luo*, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), under review | paper

  3. Wireless Copilot: An AI-Powered Partner for Navigating Next-Generation Wireless Complexity
    Haoxiang Luo, Ruichen Zhang, Yinqiu Liu, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato, Dong In Kim
    IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCM), under review | paper

  4. AI Reasoning for Wireless Communications and Networking: A Survey and Perspectives
    Haoxiang Luo, Yu Yan, Yanhu Bian, Wenjiao Feng, Ruichen Zhang, Yinqiu Liu, Jiacheng Wang, Gang Sun, Dusit Niyato, Hongfang Yu, Abbas Jamalipour, Shiwen Mao
    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), under review | paper

  5. Secure Multi-LLM Agentic AI and Agentification for Edge General Intelligence by Zero-Trust: A Survey
    Yinqiu Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Haoxiang Luo, Yijing Lin, Geng Sun, Dusit Niyato, Hongyang Du, Zehui Xiong, Yonggang Wen, Abbas Jamalipour, Dong In Kim, Ping Zhang
    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), under review | paper

  6. A Novel Hierarchical Co-Optimization Framework for Coordinated Task Scheduling and Power Dispatch in Computing Power Networks
    Haoxiang Luo, Kun Yang, Qi Huang, Marco Aiello, Schahram Dustdar
    IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TSUSC), under review | paper

  7. A Trustworthy Agentic Multi-LLM Network: Challenges, Solutions, and A Use Case
    Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun, Yinqiu Liu, Dusit Niyato, Hongfang Yu, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Schahram Dustdar
    IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCM), 2026 | paper

  8. BEST: Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Task Scheduling for Optimizing Large AI Model Workloads at the Edge
    Haoxiang Luo, Runhua Chen, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Schahram Dustdar
    IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), 2026 | paper

  9. Transaction Workload-Aware Rebalancing Optimization Scheme for Payment Channel Networks
    Qingqing Cai, Gang Sun, Haoxiang Luo, Hongfang Yu, Mohsen Guizani
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2026 | paper

  10. Real World Assets on-Chain Assistance Low-Altitude Computility Networks: Architecture, Methodology, and Challenges
    Haoxiang Luo, Ruichen Zhang, Yinqiu Liu, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Zhu Han
    IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IoTM), 2026 | paper

  11. A Weighted Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus Driven Trusted Multiple Large Language Models Network
    Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun, Yinqiu Liu, Dongcheng Zhao, Dusit Niyato, Hongfang Yu, Schahram Dustdar
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), 2025 | paper

  12. Toward Edge General Intelligence with Multiple-Large Language Model (Multi-LLM): Architecture, Trust, and Orchestration (Popular Article)
    Haoxiang Luo, Yinqiu Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Jiacheng Wang, Gang Sun, Dusit Niyato, Hongfang Yu, Zehui Xiong, Xianbin Wang, Xuemin Shen
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), 2025 | paper

  13. A Weighted Two-Hop Raft Consensus Mechanism for Large-Scale Agricultural Products Traceability
    Junhong Yuan, Yang Li, Haoxiang Luo*, Muhan, He, Shijian Gao, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
    IEEE Access, 2025 | paper

  14. DRDST: Low-latency DAG Consensus through Robust Dynamic Sharding and Tree-broadcasting for IoV
    Runhua Chen, Haoxiang Luo*, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato, Schahram Dustdar
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025 | paper

  15. Wireless Blockchain Meets 6G: The Future Trustworthy and Ubiquitous Connectivity
    Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun, Jiacheng Wang, Hongfang Yu, Schahram Dustdar, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han
    IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST), 2025 | paper

  16. Accelerating Block and Transaction Propagation: A Survey on Broadcast Protocols in Blockchain Networks
    Yidan Lai, Yang Liu, Haoxiang Luo*, Gang Sun, Cheng Chi, Hongfang Yu
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2025 | paper

  17. Convergence of Symbiotic Communications and Blockchain for Sustainable and Trustworthy 6G Wireless Networks (ESI Highly Cited Paper/Hot Paper)
    Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun, Cheng Chi, Hongfang Yu, Mohsen Guizani
    IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCM), 2025 | paper

  18. Blockchain for Energy Market: A Comprehensive Survey
    Tianqi Jiang, Haoxiang Luo*, Kun Yang, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Qi Huang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
    Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (SEGAN), 2025 | paper

  19. Symbiotic Blockchain Consensus: Cognitive Backscatter Communications-enabled Wireless Blockchain Consensus (ESI Highly Cited Paper/Hot Paper)
    Haoxiang Luo, Qianqian Zhang, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2024 | paper

  20. SusChain: A Sustainable Sharding Scheme for UAV Blockchain Networks
    Jiale Chen, Haoxiang Luo*
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA), 2024 | paper

  21. BC4LLM: A Perspective of Trusted Artificial Intelligence When Blockchain Meets Large Language Models
    Haoxiang Luo*, Jiang Luo, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
    Neurocomputing (NEUCOM), 2024 | paper

  22. 面向RAFT共识的低能耗无线区块链分片算法
    罗皓翔, 孙罡, 雷波
    电子科技大学学报, 2024 | paper

  23. ESCM: An Efficient and Secure Communication Mechanism for UAV Networks
    Haoxiang Luo, Yifan Wu, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Mohsen Guizani
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2024 | paper

  24. An Energy-Efficient Wireless Blockchain Sharding Scheme for PBFT Consensus
    Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Bo Lei, Mohsen Guizani
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2024 | paper

  25. A low-cost blockchain node deployment algorithm for the internet of things
    Xinyu Lai, Youchi Zhang, Haoxiang Luo*
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA), 2024 | paper

  26. ESIA: An Efficient and Stable Identity Authentication for Internet of Vehicles
    Haoxiang Luo, Jin Zhang, Xinling Li, Zonghang Li, Hongfang Yu, Gang Sun, Dusit Niyato
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2023 | paper

  27. Performance Analysis and Comparison of Nonideal Wireless PBFT and RAFT Consensus Networks in 6G Communications (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
    Haoxiang Luo, Xiangyue Yang, Hongfang Yu, Gang Sun, Bo Lei, Mohsen Guizani
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), 2023 | paper

  28. ULS-PBFT: An ultra-low storage overhead PBFT consensus for blockchain
    Haoxiang Luo*
    Blockchain: Research and Applications (BCRA), 2023 | paper

  29. LECast: A low-energy-consumption broadcast protocol for UAV blockchain networks
    Haoxiang Luo*, Shiyuan Liu, Shizhong Xu, Jian Luo
    Drones, 2023 | paper

  30. PRAFT and RPBFT: A class of blockchain consensus algorithm and their applications in electric vehicles charging scenarios for V2G networks
    Haoxiang Luo*, Hongfang Yu, Jian Luo
    Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (IoTCPS), 2023 | paper

  31. LiCi密码的差分故障攻击
    陈伟建, 罗皓翔*
    网络与信息安全学报, 2021 | paper

  32. General differential fault attack on PRESENT and GIFT cipher with nibble
    Haoxiang Luo, Weijian Chen, Xinyue Ming, Yifan Wu
    IEEE ACCESS, 2021 | paper

Conference Papers:

  1. A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Proactive Security in Wireless Blockchain Networks
    Haoxiang Luo*, Yinqiu Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato, Shui Yu
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026

  2. Asset Tokenization of Computing Power Market for Large AI Models in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
    Haoxiang Luo*, Yinqiu Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026

  3. DRDST: Low-latency DAG Consensus through Robust Dynamic Sharding and Tree-broadcasting for IoV
    Runhua Chen, Haoxiang Luo*, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025 | paper

  4. WBFT-MLLMN: A Weighted BFT Consensus Driven Multiple Large Language Models Network (Best Paper Award)
    Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu
    IEEE International Conference on Deep Learning and Computer Vision (DLCV), 2025 | paper

  5. SCRaft: Achieving Fast and Stable Elections in Raft Consensus Algorithm
    Yiqi Wang, Haoxiang Luo*, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu
    IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2024 | paper

  6. A Multi-Chain Consensus for Power Big Data Transaction in Generation-Grid-Load-Storage Integrated Networks (Student Travel Grant)
    Haoxiang Luo, Kun Yang, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Qi Huang, Yang Zhang
    IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), 2024 | paper

  7. DHBN: An Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Blockchain Networks in Highly Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment
    Runze Zheng, Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu
    IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024 | paper

  8. Symbiotic PBFT Consensus: Cognitive Backscatter Communications-enabled Wireless PBFT Consensus
    Haoxiang Luo, Qianqian Zhang, Hongfang Yu, Gang Sun, Shizhong Xu
    IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), 2023 | paper

  9. BCACP-IoE: A Novel Blockchain-Based Security Access Control Protocol for Internet of Energy
    Yanchi Chen, Haoxiang Luo*, Qi Huang, Jian Luo
    IEEE International Conference on Information Communication and Signal Processing (ICICSP), 2023 | paper

  10. Performance Analysis of Non-ideal Wireless PBFT Networks with mmWave and Terahertz Signals
    Haoxiang Luo, Xiangyue Yang, Hongfang Yu, Gang Sun, Shizhong Xu, Long Luo
    IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom), 2023 | paper

  11. Ultra reliable and low latency authentication scheme for internet of vehicles based on blockchain
    Xiangyue Yang, Haoxiang Luo, Jingshan Duan, Hongfang Yu
    IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2022 | paper

  12. Security analysis of sharding in blockchain with PBFT Consensus
    Xinling Li, Haoxiang Luo, Jingshan Duan
    ACM International Conference on Blockchain Technology (ICBCT), 2022 | paper

  13. A privacy protection method based on Key encapsulation mechanism in medical blockchain
    Yanchi Chen, Haoxiang Luo*, Qing Bian
    IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2021 | paper

  14. A distributed identity authentication scheme for differential fault attack
    Yundi Deng, Haoxiang Luo*
    IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2021 | paper

  15. Educational Functions of Network Media Technology in Major Emergencies: A Case Study at Glasgow College, UESTC, China
    Bingjie Xie, Haoxiang Luo*
    IEEE International Conference on Education, Knowledge and Information Management (ICEKIM), 2021 | paper

  16. Differential Fault Attack on TWINE Block Cipher with Nibble
    Haoxiang Luo, Yifan Wu, Weijian Chen
    IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2020 | paper

  17. Analysis of a multichannel lightweight identity authentication method
    Haoxiang Luo, Weijian Chen, Cheng Chen, Yiqing Yang, Yingyi Zhang, Yifan Wu
    IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2019 | paper

Patents:

  1. 面向轻量级节点的支付通道网络路由方法及其系统
    孙罡, 陈景晖,蔡青青,罗皓翔, 虞红芳, 罗龙, 孙健
    CN202510335781.8, 2025

  2. 一种基于区块链的大语言模型网络生成优化方法
    孙罡, 罗皓翔, 虞红芳, 罗龙, 孙健
    CN202510185259.6, 2025

  3. 一种基于共生通信的无线区块链共识方法
    罗皓翔, 孙罡, 虞红芳
    CN202311152620.2, 2023

  4. 一种分布式防伪系统及其方法
    陈伟建, 张颖毅, 陈骋, 杨宜青, 罗皓翔
    CN201910496269.6, 2021

Services

Journal Editor

  1. 中国科学与技术学报 (China Journal of Science and Technology, CJST), ISSN 3079-8434, 青年编委 (Young Editorial Board Member), since 2025.

Conference TPC Member & Chair

  1. Workshop chair of IEEE International Conference on Deep Learning and Computer Vision (DLCV) 2026

  2. Workshop chair of IEEE International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2026

  3. Session chair of IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom) 2023

  4. TPC member of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2025

  5. TPC member of IEEE International Conference on Communicaiotns (ICC) 2025

  6. TPC member of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for eHealth (ICTS4eHealth) 2024

  7. TPC member of IEEE Global Blockchain Conference (GBC) 2024

  8. TPC member of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-Fall (VTC-Fall) 2024

  9. TPC member of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Information Security (ICBCTIS) 2024

  10. TPC member of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-Spring (VTC-Spring) 2024

  11. TPC member of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2024/2025

  12. TPC member of IEEE International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) 2023/2024/2025

Selected Technical Reviewer:

  1. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

  2. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST)

  3. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

  4. IEEE Wireless Communictions

  5. IEEE Communications Magazine

  6. IEEE Network

  7. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IoTM)

  8. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)

  9. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

  10. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

  11. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)

  12. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

  13. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS)

  14. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)

  15. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

  16. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)

  17. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS)

  18. IEEE Data Descriptions

  19. IEEE ACCESS

  20. Elsevier Computer Science Review (CSR)

  21. Elsevier Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)

  22. Elsevier Neurocomputing (NEUCOM)

  23. Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks (DCN)

  24. Elsevier Transportation Research Part E

  25. Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering

  26. Elsevier Blockchain: Research and Applications (BCRA)

  27. Elsevier Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

  28. Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC)

  29. Elsevier International Journal of Cognitive Computing in Engineering (IJCCE)

  30. Elsevier Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal (JESTCH)

  31. Springer The Journal of Supercomputing (TJSC)

  32. Springer Financial Innovation (FINI)

  33. Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA)

  34. Springer Cluster Computing

And others.