Pith Number

pith:5Y24FGIR

pith:2017:5Y24FGIRZRM3XQGNK4CQSYRLSL

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How Better is Distributed SDN? An Analytical Approach

Franck Le, Kin K. Leung, Leandros Tassiulas, Liang Ma, Sastry Kompella, Ziyao Zhang

arxiv:1712.04161 v1 · 2017-12-12 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Y24FGIRZRM3XQGNK4CQSYRLSL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:08.934096Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee35c29911cc59bbc0cd570509622b92c0ff6c6d88234fa516cb0c94b1863c45

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04161 · arxiv_version: 1712.04161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04161 · pith_short_12: 5Y24FGIRZRM3 · pith_short_16: 5Y24FGIRZRM3XQGN · pith_short_8: 5Y24FGIR

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/5Y24FGIRZRM3XQGNK4CQSYRLSL \
  | 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: ee35c29911cc59bbc0cd570509622b92c0ff6c6d88234fa516cb0c94b1863c45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51410b70fa849d0b8bd6cae94ff35ea30959b113b97b0b79c91d2131648e4731",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T08:11:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb82e2c64dea35271e6f7e270f5e253c19d1b7526b749eb0e614ba2c0d736a6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}