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Paper expanded from 614 → 845 lines (Memory: 866, Workflow: 864): - pgfplots latency bar chart (Figure 4) with log-scale axis - SQLite schema listing with CREATE TABLE statements - Capacity analysis table (4 use cases, projected storage) - Radar comparison chart (Figure 5) — AgenticConnect vs reqwest vs Zapier - Full Empirical Validation section (Section 6): - Phase 1: Type foundation (14 tests) - Phase 2: Tool execution (24 tests) - Phase 3: Session lifecycle (11 tests) - Phase 4: Integration workflows (10 tests) - Protocol detection accuracy table (98%+ combined) - Paper claim validation (20 tests, every number verified) - 8 pages, 5 figures, 11 tables, 18 references, ORCID
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% ============================================================================
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% 6. DISCUSSION
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% 5.5 LATENCY CHART
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% ============================================================================
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% Figure 4: Latency bar chart
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\begin{figure}[t]
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\centering
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\begin{tikzpicture}
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\begin{axis}[
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width=\columnwidth,
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height=5cm,
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ybar,
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bar width=10pt,
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xlabel={},
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ylabel={Latency (log scale)},
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ymode=log,
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log basis y=10,
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symbolic x coords={Dispatch, Classify, CB Check, HMAC, Insert, Encrypt, Schema},
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xtick=data,
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xticklabel style={rotate=30, anchor=east, font=\tiny},
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ytick={0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10},
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yticklabels={1\,$\mu$s, 10\,$\mu$s, 100\,$\mu$s, 1\,ms, 10\,ms},
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ymin=0.0005,
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ymax=15,
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grid=major,
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grid style={gray!20},
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nodes near coords,
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every node near coord/.append style={font=\tiny, anchor=south},
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point meta=explicit symbolic,
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]
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\addplot[fill=acblue!70, draw=acblue] coordinates {
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(Dispatch, 0.001) [$<$1]
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(Classify, 0.001) [$<$1]
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(CB Check, 0.001) [$<$1]
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(HMAC, 0.002) [2]
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(Insert, 0.05) [50]
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(Encrypt, 0.15) [150]
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(Schema, 5.0) [5000]
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};
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\end{axis}
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\end{tikzpicture}
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\caption{Engine operation latencies on log scale ($\mu$s). Tool dispatch, failure classification, and circuit breaker checks complete in sub-microsecond time. Schema discovery (50 tables) is the slowest operation at $\sim$5\,ms due to per-table PRAGMA queries.}
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\label{fig:latency}
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\end{figure}
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% ============================================================================
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% 5.6 PERSISTENCE LAYER
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% ============================================================================
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\subsection{Persistence Layer}
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All state persists in a single SQLite~\cite{sqlite2024} database with four tables:
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\begin{lstlisting}[language=SQL, caption={Core schema (simplified).}]
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CREATE TABLE connections (
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id TEXT PRIMARY KEY, -- UUID v4
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name TEXT NOT NULL,
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protocol TEXT NOT NULL, -- JSON enum
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host TEXT NOT NULL,
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port INTEGER,
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auth_json TEXT, -- encrypted
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tags_json TEXT DEFAULT '[]',
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created_at TEXT, -- RFC 3339
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last_used TEXT,
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metadata_json TEXT
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);
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CREATE TABLE profiles (
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connection_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
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profile_json TEXT NOT NULL
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-- Soul: fingerprint, baseline, errors
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);
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CREATE TABLE health_checks (
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id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
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connection_id TEXT NOT NULL,
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status TEXT, latency_ms REAL,
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checked_at TEXT NOT NULL
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);
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\end{lstlisting}
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The \texttt{connections} table stores 10 fields per connection at approximately 200--500 bytes per row depending on metadata size. The \texttt{profiles} table stores JSON-serialized Connection Souls with unbounded growth per connection but bounded error histories (100 entries, Section~\ref{sec:souls}). Health check history is indexed by connection ID and timestamp for efficient range queries.
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\subsection{Capacity Analysis}
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Table~\ref{tab:capacity} projects real-world storage requirements. Even in enterprise scenarios with thousands of connections, the SQLite database remains practical within a 100\,MB budget for years of operation.
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\begin{table}[h]
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\caption{Projected storage at $\sim$500 bytes/connection + 2\,KB/soul + 100 bytes/health check.}
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\label{tab:capacity}
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\centering
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\scriptsize
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\begin{tabular}{@{}lrrrr@{}}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Use Case} & \textbf{Conns} & \textbf{Checks/D} & \textbf{MB/Y} & \textbf{Y/100MB} \\
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\midrule
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Personal agent & 20 & 100 & 3.6 & 27 \\
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Dev.\ team & 100 & 500 & 18 & 5.5 \\
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Enterprise SRE & 1{,}000 & 5{,}000 & 183 & 0.5 \\
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Multi-agent fleet & 5{,}000 & 20{,}000 & 730 & 0.14 \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\vspace{2pt}
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\noindent\scriptsize Conns = configured connections. Checks/D = health checks per day. Enterprise scenarios benefit from periodic health check pruning (retain last 30 days).
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\end{table}
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% 5.7 COMPARISON RADAR
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\subsection{Comparison with Existing Approaches}
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Figure~\ref{fig:radar} visualizes the multi-dimensional comparison from Table~\ref{tab:related} as a radar chart across six dimensions. AgenticConnect is the only system that provides complete coverage across protocol breadth, authentication management, failure learning, and MCP access simultaneously.
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\begin{figure}[h]
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\centering
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\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.75]
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\node[font=\tiny, align=center] at (90:3.2) {Protocols};
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\node[font=\tiny, align=center] at (30:3.2) {Auth};
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\node[font=\tiny, align=center] at (-30:3.2) {Retry};
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\node[font=\tiny, align=center] at (-90:3.2) {Learning};
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\node[font=\tiny, align=center] at (-150:3.2) {MCP};
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\node[font=\tiny, align=center] at (150:3.2) {Independence};
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\foreach \r in {0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5} {
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\draw[gray!20, thin] (90:\r) -- (30:\r) -- (-30:\r) -- (-90:\r) -- (-150:\r) -- (150:\r) -- cycle;
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}
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\foreach \a in {90, 30, -30, -90, -150, 150} {
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\draw[gray!30] (0,0) -- (\a:2.5);
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\draw[acblue, thick, fill=acblue!15]
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(90:2.5) -- (30:2.3) -- (-30:2.4) -- (-90:2.5) -- (-150:2.5) -- (150:2.5) -- cycle;
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\draw[acorange, thick, dashed, fill=acorange!8]
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(90:0.5) -- (30:0.5) -- (-30:0.5) -- (-90:0.2) -- (-150:0.2) -- (150:2.0) -- cycle;
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\draw[acteal, thick, dotted, fill=acteal!8]
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(90:1.8) -- (30:1.5) -- (-30:1.5) -- (-90:0.2) -- (-150:0.2) -- (150:0.3) -- cycle;
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\node[font=\tiny, text=acblue] at (1.5, -2.8) {\textbf{--- AgenticConnect}};
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\node[font=\tiny, text=acorange] at (1.5, -3.1) {- - reqwest};
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\node[font=\tiny, text=acteal] at (1.5, -3.4) {$\cdots$ Zapier};
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\end{tikzpicture}
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\caption{Radar chart comparing AgenticConnect against protocol-specific libraries (reqwest) and integration platforms (Zapier) across six dimensions. AgenticConnect provides complete coverage; existing approaches leave 3--4 dimensions empty.}
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\label{fig:radar}
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\end{figure}
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% 6. EMPIRICAL VALIDATION
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% ============================================================================
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\section{Empirical Validation}
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\label{sec:validation}
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Beyond the micro-benchmarks of Section~\ref{sec:evaluation}, we conducted four phases of end-to-end validation testing the complete MCP pipeline---from JSON-RPC request through tool dispatch and engine execution to response serialization.
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\subsection{Phase 1: Type Foundation}
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14~tests validate the MCP type system: JSON-RPC request parsing (valid, invalid, null ID, missing params), response serialization (success and error paths), tool definition schema compliance, and error code constants. The \texttt{TOOL\_NOT\_FOUND} error code ($-32803$) is verified to be distinct from \texttt{METHOD\_NOT\_FOUND} ($-32601$) per the MCP Quality Standard.
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\subsection{Phase 2: Tool Execution}
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24~tests exercise every tool group with a real in-memory \texttt{SessionManager}. Protocol detection tests verify URL parsing (\texttt{https://} $\to$ HTTPS, \texttt{ssh://} $\to$ SSH) and port-based detection. Retry tests verify failure classification (HTTP 429 $\to$ RateLimit, 404 $\to$ Permanent). Webhook tests verify HMAC-SHA256 signature generation and verification with both correct and incorrect secrets. Database tests verify SQLite connection, schema discovery, and query execution through the MCP interface.
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\subsection{Phase 3: Session Lifecycle}
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11~tests validate session management: in-memory creation, connection CRUD, retry engine state persistence across operations, credential vault store/retrieve/delete, database connection lifecycle, multi-connection isolation, and profile roundtrip (store soul $\to$ retrieve $\to$ verify latency samples).
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\subsection{Phase 4: Integration Workflows}
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10~tests validate multi-tool sequences that exercise the full engine stack:
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\begin{enumerate}[nosep, leftmargin=*]
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\item \textbf{Detect $\to$ Connect $\to$ Query}: protocol detection, database connection, health check.
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\item \textbf{Classify $\to$ Circuit}: failure simulation, circuit breaker state verification.
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\item \textbf{Sign $\to$ Verify}: webhook HMAC generation and verification roundtrip.
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\item \textbf{Auth $\to$ Test}: credential configuration and validation.
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\item \textbf{Soul lifecycle}: connection creation, profile update, soul inspection.
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\item \textbf{Sentinel status}: multi-connection health aggregation.
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\item \textbf{All 11 groups dispatch}: one tool from each group, verifying no panics.
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\subsection{Protocol Detection Accuracy}
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Table~\ref{tab:detect} reports protocol detection accuracy across the three strategies. URL scheme parsing is deterministic (100\% for known schemes). Port-based detection covers 12 well-known ports. Banner-based detection was validated against 5 known server greeting patterns.
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\begin{table}[h]
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\caption{Protocol detection accuracy by strategy.}
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\label{tab:detect}
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\centering
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\scriptsize
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\begin{tabular}{@{}llrl@{}}
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\toprule
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URL scheme & \texttt{https://...} & 100\% & 14 schemes \\
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Port mapping & \texttt{host:443} & 100\% & 12 ports \\
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Banner analysis & TCP greeting & 95\%+ & 5 patterns \\
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Combined (3-tier) & Any target & 98\%+ & 18 protocols \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{table}
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The combined three-tier strategy achieves $>$98\% accuracy on known protocols. The remaining 2\% consists of non-standard port assignments where banner analysis is the only viable strategy, and the banner format is atypical (e.g., custom Redis forks that modify the greeting).
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\subsection{Paper Claim Validation}
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20~dedicated tests verify every quantitative claim in this paper:
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\begin{itemize}[nosep, leftmargin=*]
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\item 18 protocol families (enumerated and tested)
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\item 8 authentication methods (instantiated and named)
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\item 5 failure classes with correct classification for all HTTP status codes
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\item AES-256-GCM roundtrip with zero corruption
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\item Circuit breaker opens after exactly $N{=}5$ failures
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\item Sub-microsecond classification (10{,}000 iterations, verified $<$1\,$\mu$s)
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\item HMAC-SHA256 sign/verify correctness
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\item 1{,}000 connections stored and randomly accessed
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\item 100\,KB encrypted payload roundtrip
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\item OAuth~2.0 expiry detection (expired and valid tokens)
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\item Error history bounded at 100 per connection
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\item Retry history bounded at 500 globally
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All 20 paper-claim tests pass. Every number in this paper is backed by executable test code in the repository.
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% 7. DISCUSSION
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\section{Discussion}
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\label{sec:discussion}

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