Pith Number

pith:W4FLCS3K

pith:2017:W4FLCS3K7YCN6DQXOT325AZGFC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deconstructing the Tail at Scale Effect Across Network Protocols

Akshitha Sriraman, Shan Su, Sihang Liu, Sinan Gunbay, Thomas F. Wenisch

arxiv:1701.03100 v2 · 2017-01-10 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W4FLCS3K7YCN6DQXOT325AZGFC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:30.763802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b70ab14b6afe04df0e1774f7ae832628a916d46b0e2fc239cb74a18a85ad3f69

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03100 · arxiv_version: 1701.03100v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03100 · pith_short_12: W4FLCS3K7YCN · pith_short_16: W4FLCS3K7YCN6DQX · pith_short_8: W4FLCS3K

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/W4FLCS3K7YCN6DQXOT325AZGFC \
  | 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: b70ab14b6afe04df0e1774f7ae832628a916d46b0e2fc239cb74a18a85ad3f69

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a430ce1b9e6a0744358f93bfbdb302a63f627c7554da4f04b654683d7779c7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-10T20:49:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c8694ac45a4bdacc9d6a2569f8a5533d59b12abdeaf81fedd1b12f82c10d5297"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03100",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}