Pith Number

pith:G6ME7BT2

pith:2018:G6ME7BT2ISRVI4WVJZREEFK7XL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Simple Back-Off in Unreliable Radio Networks

Calvin Newport, Dominik Pajak, Nancy Lynch, Seth Gilbert

arxiv:1803.02216 v3 · 2018-03-06 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G6ME7BT2ISRVI4WVJZREEFK7XL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:14.540388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37984f867a44a35472d54e6242155fbad5cb8df663e8121b1e0739d1c9332a28

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.02216 · arxiv_version: 1803.02216v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.02216 · pith_short_12: G6ME7BT2ISRV · pith_short_16: G6ME7BT2ISRVI4WV · pith_short_8: G6ME7BT2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G6ME7BT2ISRVI4WVJZREEFK7XL \
  | 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: 37984f867a44a35472d54e6242155fbad5cb8df663e8121b1e0739d1c9332a28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41be8688d6dd12d8485de664f42bcbe38d8a19a020dc67399e434f3451fedd6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-06T14:27:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e50dbc2ad27c8795e9f460410fc49c3ad6eeae015cc89ad31cba3699786216f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.02216",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}