Pith Number

pith:VZPPIBTG

pith:2016:VZPPIBTGLUN6TTBEYX5LCM474K

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Online Scaling of NFV Service Chains across Geo-distributed Datacenters

Alex Liu, Chuan Wu, Franck Le, Yongzheng Jia, Zongpeng Li

arxiv:1611.08086 v1 · 2016-11-24 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZPPIBTGLUN6TTBEYX5LCM474K}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:56:44.455395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae5ef406665d1be9cc24c5fab1339fe2b41ac1634828a70b275f74c904628e40

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.08086 · arxiv_version: 1611.08086v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.08086 · pith_short_12: VZPPIBTGLUN6 · pith_short_16: VZPPIBTGLUN6TTBE · pith_short_8: VZPPIBTG

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/VZPPIBTGLUN6TTBEYX5LCM474K \
  | 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: ae5ef406665d1be9cc24c5fab1339fe2b41ac1634828a70b275f74c904628e40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9f7f838d734eab5c8f17114f4085fefeabfd28c04840940e921a9ecc1687af3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-24T07:36:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4a63e1f282fab580c713801577dd5c02476f76b640ffb28e7bcd2728b728478"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.08086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}