Pith Number

pith:SF4OVWSC

pith:2015:SF4OVWSCPF6HKV6YQM2GHYERCT

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On Orchestrating Virtual Network Functions in NFV

Md. Faizul Bari, Raouf Boutaba, Reaz Ahmed, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury

arxiv:1503.06377 v2 · 2015-03-22 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SF4OVWSCPF6HKV6YQM2GHYERCT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:28.189364Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9178eada42797c7557d8833463e09114e6cb8d5997bbf0abb3330cf6eaeca98e

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.06377 · arxiv_version: 1503.06377v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.06377 · pith_short_12: SF4OVWSCPF6H · pith_short_16: SF4OVWSCPF6HKV6Y · pith_short_8: SF4OVWSC

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/SF4OVWSCPF6HKV6YQM2GHYERCT \
  | 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: 9178eada42797c7557d8833463e09114e6cb8d5997bbf0abb3330cf6eaeca98e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d89e6114255aeff221b1ea12d61b81f0d63bc0592bc72add7c192c552487472",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-22T02:57:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa4f1456809db68d637b08869554dc933b2386f85f662b581c1c896029ec3f64"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.06377",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}