Pith Number

pith:A4JTEXG2

pith:2014:A4JTEXG2F26CK7BVJEHQBVX3EU

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On Minimizing the Maximum Broadcast Decoding Delay for Instantly Decodable Network Coding

Ahmed Douik, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Sameh Sorour, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

arxiv:1404.0265 v1 · 2014-04-01 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:55:04.773991Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0713325cda2ebc257c35490f00d6fb25118c5cfae0b43fe43dc6b24a18743b78

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.0265 · arxiv_version: 1404.0265v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.0265 · pith_short_12: A4JTEXG2F26C · pith_short_16: A4JTEXG2F26CK7BV · pith_short_8: A4JTEXG2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A4JTEXG2F26CK7BVJEHQBVX3EU \
  | 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: 0713325cda2ebc257c35490f00d6fb25118c5cfae0b43fe43dc6b24a18743b78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8bc1c0702178f7bb00e6a46c3395c9e78c21b39e20616a5c45279063e31d3f63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-01T14:49:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87b0a2832eafc36bd3a03de8081a2ef4b8f3aefaa45ba28fcd4ce4c93e90ead6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.0265",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}