Pith Number

pith:HPQYBDDM

pith:2018:HPQYBDDM7H2W7AQDKEP2EXMCE3

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A Comprehensive Study on Load Balancers for VNF chains Horizontal Scaling

Christian Makaya, Frank Le, Jiefei Ma, Jorge Lobo, Mariceli Morales, Windhya Rankothge

arxiv:1810.03238 v1 · 2018-10-08 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HPQYBDDM7H2W7AQDKEP2EXMCE3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:54.062464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3be1808c6cf9f56f8203511fa25d8226edba62bdae0e51358945190456b82f41

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.03238 · arxiv_version: 1810.03238v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.03238 · pith_short_12: HPQYBDDM7H2W · pith_short_16: HPQYBDDM7H2W7AQD · pith_short_8: HPQYBDDM

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/HPQYBDDM7H2W7AQDKEP2EXMCE3 \
  | 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: 3be1808c6cf9f56f8203511fa25d8226edba62bdae0e51358945190456b82f41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c760fa24c9f4200d670a1c78a0218ffb04e466460bf13506d10b8d93cc8bc0f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-08T01:02:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b30229eb9cec9417f4a056065654d3fdefe1c2921fa9e398570ec7395dae3df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.03238",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}