Pith Number

pith:RNMWRF24

pith:2018:RNMWRF24K4EJR5AYOIY4YRLFOS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

To Skip or to Switch? Minimizing Age of Information under Link Capacity Constraint

Boyu Wang, Jing Yang, Songtao Feng

arxiv:1806.08698 v2 · 2018-06-22 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RNMWRF24K4EJR5AYOIY4YRLFOS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:11:56.557802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b5968975c570898f4187231cc45657496c91b44a278540bee9b24d58f1fbadb

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.08698 · arxiv_version: 1806.08698v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.08698 · pith_short_12: RNMWRF24K4EJ · pith_short_16: RNMWRF24K4EJR5AY · pith_short_8: RNMWRF24

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/RNMWRF24K4EJR5AYOIY4YRLFOS \
  | 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: 8b5968975c570898f4187231cc45657496c91b44a278540bee9b24d58f1fbadb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f764434c0c8f077e8741bae7540a311ab00bb84a341ea3469043e254f6814cb9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-22T14:34:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b65bf7b42ae13f7833b63ed61cfac09158fc657dd13972284b14f794fcae91a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.08698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}