Pith Number

pith:GS34F3NZ

pith:2018:GS34F3NZ322U7ZHPYW4V7PJLUL

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Poor Video Streaming Performance Explained (and Fixed)

Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Siddhartha Sen

arxiv:1901.00038 v1 · 2018-12-31 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GS34F3NZ322U7ZHPYW4V7PJLUL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:07.044741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34b7c2edb9deb54fe4efc5b95fbd2ba2cd3bcfa065f3224d787a4629119c1556

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.00038 · arxiv_version: 1901.00038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.00038 · pith_short_12: GS34F3NZ322U · pith_short_16: GS34F3NZ322U7ZHP · pith_short_8: GS34F3NZ

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/GS34F3NZ322U7ZHPYW4V7PJLUL \
  | 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: 34b7c2edb9deb54fe4efc5b95fbd2ba2cd3bcfa065f3224d787a4629119c1556

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e7ed8741c669e1f0569531c5f2e6e4462363af1cbcb698103ec1c8b47e77e78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-31T20:45:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a44ec904aafe0e3fa854b4fee90a3b723be0d0da4454f0c9c179422acf0f7bb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.00038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}