Pith Number

pith:HN4HFE3T

pith:1998:HN4HFE3TCM3GPNIBCNL4VLRAJT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fairness for ABR multipoint-to-point connections

Bobby Vandalore, Raj Jain, Rohit Goyal, Sonia Fahmy

arxiv:cs/9809046 v1 · 1998-09-23 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HN4HFE3TCM3GPNIBCNL4VLRAJT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:25.082983Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b78729373133667b5011357caae204cdea6d1bbb2fe35f795d9612c44449ff2

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9809046 · arxiv_version: cs/9809046v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809046 · pith_short_12: HN4HFE3TCM3G · pith_short_16: HN4HFE3TCM3GPNIB · pith_short_8: HN4HFE3T

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/HN4HFE3TCM3GPNIBCNL4VLRAJT \
  | 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: 3b78729373133667b5011357caae204cdea6d1bbb2fe35f795d9612c44449ff2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df6f83bb266d60d38bf54038a8117efe770333b6343ba349047876fd176eae0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-23T01:49:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "704b7fe55af6de1f3e5bfcdef89589e403c1d4f9f136f376d69c6f05073b73e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9809046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}