Majid Khabbazian

University of Alberta

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Office: 11-245

Phone: (780)248-1852

Address: 11-209 DICE (9211-116 Street NW)


Email: mkhabbazian@ualberta.ca

About Me

I am a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, and a licensed Professional Engineer (PEng) in Alberta, Canada. I serve as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, handling the Blockchain Track.

  • Postdoc, CS, MIT
  • Ph.D., ECE, University of British Columbia
  • B.Sc., CE, Sharif University of Technology

Research Interest

I am generally interested in designing fast, efficient and secure algorithms for distributed systems and networks. My current research interest is mainly on blockchain and distributed algorithms.

news

Jan 1, 2026 A paper accepted in FC 2026! :sparkles:
Aug 1, 2025 A paper accepted in AFT 2025! :sparkles:
Feb 1, 2024 A paper accepted in FC 2024! :sparkles:
Aug 1, 2023 Two papers accepted at AFT 2023! :sparkles:

selected publications

  1. Sharp Minimum-Distance Tails for BAA Codes
    Majid Khabbazian
    In Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2026
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  2. One More A: Sharper Tails Without Scaling
    Majid Khabbazian
    In Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2026
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  3. Linear Distance for Fixed-Row-Weight Expand–Accumulate Codes over Arbitrary Fields
    Majid Khabbazian
    In Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2026
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  4. Sharp Minimum-Distance Lower Tails for RAA Codes
    Majid Khabbazian
    In Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2026
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  5. 2G2T: Constant-Size, Statistically Sound MSM Outsourcing
    Majid Khabbazian
    In Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2026
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  6. Resilient Onion Messaging in the Lightning Network
    Amin Bashiri, and Majid Khabbazian
    In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2026
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  7. SPARE: Asymmetric Proof-of-Work–Based DoS Mitigation for IoT Devices
    Amirhosein Yari, and Majid Khabbazian
    In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2026
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  8. Plaintext-Scale Fair Data Exchange
    Majid Khabbazian
    In FC: Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2026
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  9. On Scalability Power of Payment Channel Networks
    Sajjad Alizadeh, and Majid Khabbazian
    In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025
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  10. Ticket to Ride: Locally Steered Source Routing for the Lightning Network
    Sajjad Alizadeh, and Majid Khabbazian
    In AFT: ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, 2025
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  11. Bucket: Backtrack Routing for the Lightning Network
    Amin Bashiri, and Majid Khabbazian
    In International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications , 2025
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  12. Solana’s Transaction Network: Analysis, Insights, and Comparison
    Sajjad Alizadeh, and Majid Khabbazian
    In EPJ Data Science, 2025
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  13. On Finding the Largest Minimum Distance of Locally Recoverable Codes: A Graph Theory Approach
    Majid Khabbazian, and Muriel Medard
    In Discrete Mathematics, 2024
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  14. Non-intrusive Balance Tomography Using Reinforcement Learning in the Lightning Network
    Yan Qiao, Kui Wu, and Majid Khabbazian
    In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2024
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  15. Onion Messages on Leash
    Amin Bashiri, and Majid Khabbazian
    In FC: Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2024
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  16. Condorcet Attack Against Fair Transaction Ordering
    Mohammad-Amin Vafadar, and Majid Khabbazian
    In AFT: ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, 2023, 2023
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  17. Liquidity Management Attacks on Lending Markets
    Alireza Arjmand, and Majid Khabbazian
    In AFT: ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, 2023, 2023
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  18. Torrent: Strong, Fast Balance Discovery in the Lightning Network
    Sonbol Rahimpour, and Majid Khabbazian
    In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2022, Shanghai, China, May 2-5, 2022, 2022
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  19. Grief-free Atomic Swaps
    Tejaswi Nadahalli, Majid Khabbazian, and Roger Wattenhofer
    In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2022, Shanghai, China, May 2-5, 2022, 2022
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  20. Hashcashed Reputation with Application in Designing Watchtowers
    Sonbol Rahimpour, and Majid Khabbazian
    In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2021, Sydney, Australia, May 3-6, 2021, 2021
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  21. Timelocked Bribing
    Tejaswi Nadahalli, Majid Khabbazian, and Roger Wattenhofer
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 25th International Conference, FC 2021, Virtual Event, March 1-5, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part I, 2021
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  22. Non-Intrusive and High-Efficient Balance Tomography in the Lightning Network
    Yan Qiao, Kui Wu, and Majid Khabbazian
    In ASIA CCS ’21: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Virtual Event, Hong Kong, June 7-11, 2021, 2021
  23. Spear: fast multi-path payment with redundancy
    Sonbol Rahimpour, and Majid Khabbazian
    In AFT ’21: 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, Arlington, Virginia, USA, September 26 - 28, 2021, 2021
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  24. Outpost: A Responsive Lightweight Watchtower
    Majid Khabbazian, Tejaswi Nadahalli, and Roger Wattenhofer
    In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2019, Zurich, Switzerland, October 21-23, 2019, 2019
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