Pith Number

pith:QWXUHFJQ

pith:2016:QWXUHFJQPROMR73OCHRLFM7OK7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Performance Characterization of a Commercial Video Streaming Service

Ahmed Mansy, Jennifer Rexford, Mojgan Ghasemi, Partha Kanuparthy, Theophilus Benson

arxiv:1605.04966 v1 · 2016-05-16 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QWXUHFJQPROMR73OCHRLFM7OK7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:14:37.882549Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85af4395307c5cc8ff6e11e2b2b3ee57d2e6101f2d73c04e5e3ecebf57805b8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.04966 · arxiv_version: 1605.04966v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.04966 · pith_short_12: QWXUHFJQPROM · pith_short_16: QWXUHFJQPROMR73O · pith_short_8: QWXUHFJQ

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/QWXUHFJQPROMR73OCHRLFM7OK7 \
  | 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: 85af4395307c5cc8ff6e11e2b2b3ee57d2e6101f2d73c04e5e3ecebf57805b8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c8d1de6bb765456e186de7919805472d06c244d731de0eccb12b4dad3924b82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-16T22:14:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc4d687a53b9b3edc5cfa9c58a140232f347b58c9c081fe0a81126610528b502"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.04966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}