Publications

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Published

1. 25. Zhang, Y. Xiang, Y. Lei, Q. Wang, T. Qiu, Y. Sun, S. Zarkov, T. H. Yuen, A. Deppeler, J. Yu, and K.-Y. Lam, "SoK: Blockchain Agent-to-Agent Payments," accepted as a full paper at BCRA 2026, to appear in Blockchain: Research and Applications, 2026. [PDF]
2. Y. Lei, K. Jiang, Z. Wang, Y. Cao, H. Lin, and L. Chen, "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Task Offloading in Internet-of-Vehicles," in 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE, 2024, pp. 1-6. [PDF]
3. 25. Xiang, Y. Lei (co-first author), D. Bao, T. Li, Q. Yang, W. Liu, W. Ren, and K.-K. R. Choo, "BABD: A Bitcoin Address Behavior Dataset for Pattern Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 19, pp. 2171-2185, 2024. [PDF]
4. 14. Liu, Y. Lei, W. Ren, L. Zhang, X. Zhang, and T. Zhu, "zk-Guard: A Privacy-Preserving Access Control Framework Based on zk-SNARKs and Blockchain for Decentralized Data Sharing," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026. [PDF]

Under Review / Submitted

1. Y. Lei, Y. Xiang, Q. Wang, R. Dowsley, T. H. Yuen, K.-K. R. Choo, and J. Yu, "Large Language Models for Cryptocurrency Transaction Analysis: A Bitcoin Case Study," arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.18158, 2025. (submitted to ACM SIGKDD 2025) [PDF]
2. Y. Lei, Z. Wang, M. Zhao, Y. Cao, and W. Lim, "Peer-Aware and Fair-Play Decentralized Task Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing: A Multi-Agent Learning Framework," China Communications, 2025 (under major revision).