Pith Number

pith:K2H3EGD4

pith:2018:K2H3EGD4JD46MGHZN37NXCFM3F

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Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions: Analysis and Future Challenges

Mohamed Faten Zhani, Nadir Ghrada, Yehia Elkhatib

arxiv:1804.08787 v1 · 2018-04-24 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K2H3EGD4JD46MGHZN37NXCFM3F}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:17:37.351645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

568fb2187c48f9e618f96efedb88acd9565cc329deb3663f0b4357109c00053b

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.08787 · arxiv_version: 1804.08787v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.08787 · pith_short_12: K2H3EGD4JD46 · pith_short_16: K2H3EGD4JD46MGHZ · pith_short_8: K2H3EGD4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/K2H3EGD4JD46MGHZN37NXCFM3F \
  | 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: 568fb2187c48f9e618f96efedb88acd9565cc329deb3663f0b4357109c00053b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd9c3f06c5f372e3fd17ea9bf3588f4f7ccc335ab60bedf7c3b280310c1ca278",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-24T00:14:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d94794dc38545c9337f011b16aab941fa001fd82c6b6dcb55a2cf944d4dc8a73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.08787",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}