Pith Number

pith:J5E6O2PK

pith:2018:J5E6O2PKRJ2NWNS6DNZIFVC65Q

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The Role of Caching in Future Communication Systems and Networks

Don Towsley, George Iosifidis, Georgios S. Paschos, Giuseppe Caire, Meixia Tao

arxiv:1805.11721 v1 · 2018-05-29 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J5E6O2PKRJ2NWNS6DNZIFVC65Q}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:36.771443Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f49e769ea8a74db365e1b7282d45eec1cba3a0b1f418f1733a4aa4c422f49fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.11721 · arxiv_version: 1805.11721v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.11721 · pith_short_12: J5E6O2PKRJ2N · pith_short_16: J5E6O2PKRJ2NWNS6 · pith_short_8: J5E6O2PK

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/J5E6O2PKRJ2NWNS6DNZIFVC65Q \
  | 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: 4f49e769ea8a74db365e1b7282d45eec1cba3a0b1f418f1733a4aa4c422f49fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db1e4444551c17d620735eacd4363aeda8de6ca519c3017ffbc7abc536fb9b9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-29T21:40:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e43afc2e4e45652f308cbee18875de7f4347697045fe8b4875a9b210fb9dea58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.11721",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}