Pith Number

pith:IQQIRGSQ

pith:2018:IQQIRGSQ2VTOYRQR4JJ6OUTDBP

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Sunstar: A Cost-effective Multi-Server Solution for Reliable Video Delivery

Behnaz Arzani, Boon Thau Loo, Nicholas Iodice, Prahalad Venkataramanan, Roch Geurin, Steven Hwang

arxiv:1812.00109 v1 · 2018-12-01 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IQQIRGSQ2VTOYRQR4JJ6OUTDBP}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:01.170720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4420889a50d566ec4611e253e752630bffca218422723f9f2e917cf02401e929

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.00109 · arxiv_version: 1812.00109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.00109 · pith_short_12: IQQIRGSQ2VTO · pith_short_16: IQQIRGSQ2VTOYRQR · pith_short_8: IQQIRGSQ

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/IQQIRGSQ2VTOYRQR4JJ6OUTDBP \
  | 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: 4420889a50d566ec4611e253e752630bffca218422723f9f2e917cf02401e929

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce2bfec0c239cb7b0681786c80696b5666ee2a15ac84c55868ba44d5c651c18d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-01T00:44:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ba41e24305fbe91c5f88d0c71681eda84307201d0a75f7d6df467eee3d1c4c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.00109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}