Pith Number

pith:VJA4ZSJR

pith:2018:VJA4ZSJRYFM3XN6S3KRI6RFTHX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

FastTrack: Minimizing Stalls for CDN-based Over-the-top Video Streaming Systems

Abubakr Alabbasi, Moo-Ryong Ra, Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal, Yih-Farn R. Chen, Yu Xiang

arxiv:1807.01147 v1 · 2018-06-30 · cs.NI · cs.DC · cs.MM · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJA4ZSJRYFM3XN6S3KRI6RFTHX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:45.152953Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa41ccc931c159bbb7d2daa28f44b33dfabe4ad1f5deca8a750b54096c47ea2e

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.01147 · arxiv_version: 1807.01147v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01147 · pith_short_12: VJA4ZSJRYFM3 · pith_short_16: VJA4ZSJRYFM3XN6S · pith_short_8: VJA4ZSJR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VJA4ZSJRYFM3XN6S3KRI6RFTHX \
  | 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: aa41ccc931c159bbb7d2daa28f44b33dfabe4ad1f5deca8a750b54096c47ea2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c588fb2bd7210f239731b469ba45d4246e425d5532d1fd5eab01fe6ed1109acf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MM",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-30T10:24:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53f9e554f2c763b06b7b652058200e7cd1eaae1fa31420b85cdd40213e58a0b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.01147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}