Pith Number

pith:FD5IOPNZ

pith:2014:FD5IOPNZFHLWXK6JI43PDKTKO3

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Using the Buffer to Avoid Rebuffers: Evidence from a Large Video Streaming Service

Mark Watson, Matthew Trunnell, Nick McKeown, Ramesh Johari, Te-Yuan Huang

arxiv:1401.2209 v1 · 2014-01-10 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FD5IOPNZFHLWXK6JI43PDKTKO3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:02:46.083584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

28fa873db929d76babc94736f1aa6a76da43f2e9444ee5fda598f6ed2d018864

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.2209 · arxiv_version: 1401.2209v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.2209 · pith_short_12: FD5IOPNZFHLW · pith_short_16: FD5IOPNZFHLWXK6J · pith_short_8: FD5IOPNZ

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/FD5IOPNZFHLWXK6JI43PDKTKO3 \
  | 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: 28fa873db929d76babc94736f1aa6a76da43f2e9444ee5fda598f6ed2d018864

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8605cd06dbd229542b6d1b48c4e09133b05a010c5831cbaf741eb3b14c82b64b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-10T00:02:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86c720186592ad259a35707b1409bb2bf1828e4f57d7476a0f8672694e5030f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.2209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}