Pith Number

pith:4FAMV3KL

pith:2016:4FAMV3KLDV4T5HEQVPVZA5MUZP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Utility Optimization Approach to Network Cache Design

Daniel Menasche, Don Towsley, Laurent Massoulie, Mostafa Dehghan, Y. C. Tay

arxiv:1601.06838 v1 · 2016-01-25 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FAMV3KLDV4T5HEQVPVZA5MUZP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:57.306442Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e140caed4b1d793e9c90abeb907594cbd048414c72f0dd2be5165b4480cad1fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.06838 · arxiv_version: 1601.06838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.06838 · pith_short_12: 4FAMV3KLDV4T · pith_short_16: 4FAMV3KLDV4T5HEQ · pith_short_8: 4FAMV3KL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4FAMV3KLDV4T5HEQVPVZA5MUZP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e140caed4b1d793e9c90abeb907594cbd048414c72f0dd2be5165b4480cad1fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68832a9994edb51ca2b75fcc5cac25200ddf6750cd79b13cebf72da1d147af2f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-25T22:38:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af9935e9a86031f21d890dd1b6c0683700dca7af032c1f92746afb7c654c9d42"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.06838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}