Pith Number

pith:XLBV4B4A

pith:2021:XLBV4B4A36RDGWSUNRUU7ZINAS

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From Cloud to Edge: A First Look at Public Edge Platforms

Feng Qian, Jingyu Yang, Ke Li, Li Zhang, Mengwei Xu, Shangguang Wang, Xiao Ma, Xuanzhe Liu, Yanan Li, Zhe Fu

arxiv:2109.03395 v2 · 2021-09-08 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XLBV4B4A36RDGWSUNRUU7ZINAS}

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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	2026-07-05T03:30:15.445206Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bac35e0780dfa2335a546c694fe50d04a07260803669f110de8f64bdd8cd1612

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.03395 · arxiv_version: 2109.03395v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.03395 · pith_short_12: XLBV4B4A36RD · pith_short_16: XLBV4B4A36RDGWSU · pith_short_8: XLBV4B4A

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/XLBV4B4A36RDGWSUNRUU7ZINAS \
  | 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: bac35e0780dfa2335a546c694fe50d04a07260803669f110de8f64bdd8cd1612

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c3b793eb4f5fa40aa0df18233334ae0a806e43cee6a827edcc520fbfe13d652",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-08T02:02:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cdf9d3311ef2409cf427dd1a153e5e76ec86bb9dbad9fa80ac7930238ce56f74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.03395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}