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20222025
most citedLast Mile of Blockchains: RPC and Node-as-a-service

3 citations · 6 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2025

Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations

Zhongtang Luo, Jianting Zhang, Akshat Neerati +1

The Tor network offers network anonymity to its users by routing their traffic through a sequence of relays. A group of nine directory authorities maintains information about all a…

cs.CY2025

Evaluating Performance Consistency in Competitive Programming: Educational Implications and Contest Design Insights

Zhongtang Luo, Ethan Dickey

Competitive programming (CP) contests are often treated as interchangeable proxies for algorithmic skill, yet the extent to which results at lower contest tiers anticipate performa…

cs.CY2025

Curriculum Design of Competitive Programming: a Contest-based Approach

Zhongtang Luo

Competitive programming (CP) has been increasingly integrated into computer science curricula worldwide due to its efficacy in enhancing students' algorithmic reasoning and problem…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

Attacking and Improving the Tor Directory Protocol

Zhongtang Luo, Adithya Bhat, Kartik Nayak +1

The Tor network enhances clients' privacy by routing traffic through an overlay network of volunteered intermediate relays. Tor employs a distributed protocol among nine hard-coded…

cs.DL2025

ICLR Points: How Many ICLR Publications Is One Paper in Each Area?

Zhongtang Luo

Scientific publications significantly impact academic-related decisions in computer science, where top-tier conferences are particularly influential. However, efforts required to p…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Optimal Sharding for Scalable Blockchains with Deconstructed SMR

Jianting Zhang, Zhongtang Luo, Raghavendra Ramesh +1

Sharding is proposed to enhance blockchain scalability. However, a size-security dilemma where every shard must be large enough to ensure its security constrains the efficacy of in…