Pith Number

pith:MKBUPRBI

pith:2016:MKBUPRBIVFMN23TFJ4OLKC6ESV

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Explicit back-off rates for achieving target throughputs in CSMA/CA networks

Benny Van Houdt

arxiv:1602.08290 v2 · 2016-02-26 · cs.NI · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKBUPRBIVFMN23TFJ4OLKC6ESV}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:49.559828Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

628347c428a958dd6e654f1cb50bc495608c961e68257fbb80dc9b4bd6c46026

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08290 · arxiv_version: 1602.08290v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08290 · pith_short_12: MKBUPRBIVFMN · pith_short_16: MKBUPRBIVFMN23TF · pith_short_8: MKBUPRBI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MKBUPRBIVFMN23TFJ4OLKC6ESV \
  | 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: 628347c428a958dd6e654f1cb50bc495608c961e68257fbb80dc9b4bd6c46026

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7765fbe2b2fa33f01c058ca5c5e01e4ffcf27a68b09ce206fb84ecc4cfdbbe62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-26T12:09:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c26df799bd1180e3cc59ce86e98cbe87ad074fd0107f9fd97fbe0d727ac710d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}