Pith Number

pith:VNV3QHM2

pith:2018:VNV3QHM2XDG3WZO6A4L7UVCTJZ

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A Survey of Fog Computing and Communication: Current Researches and Future Directions

Harshit Gupta, Sandip Chakraborty, Shubha Brata Nath, Soumya K Ghosh

arxiv:1804.04365 v1 · 2018-04-12 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNV3QHM2XDG3WZO6A4L7UVCTJZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:37.775630Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab6bb81d9ab8cdbb65de0717fa54534e48047949cadb646a1a220c327ae84b70

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.04365 · arxiv_version: 1804.04365v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.04365 · pith_short_12: VNV3QHM2XDG3 · pith_short_16: VNV3QHM2XDG3WZO6 · pith_short_8: VNV3QHM2

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/VNV3QHM2XDG3WZO6A4L7UVCTJZ \
  | 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: ab6bb81d9ab8cdbb65de0717fa54534e48047949cadb646a1a220c327ae84b70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36ae3459040904b578384599eaf9322c4dadc61ece8d4ed57079c657836ec0d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-12T08:06:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6be3e38a0c41e0d85d4ca54e5388f4c94aeb4856eae77b036d5a234069127e53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.04365",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}