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pith:BZ4JL5TL

pith:2017:BZ4JL5TLSBRP2IYNYENHVH35PT

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Distributed Server Allocation for Content Delivery Networks

Gaurav S. Kasbekar, Sarath Pattathil, Vivek S. Borkar

arxiv:1710.11471 v4 · 2017-10-28 · cs.PF · cs.SY

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:26.635657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e7895f66b9062fd230dc11a7a9f7d7cf0049658488f4d9b8e2a3793a5f0c47a

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.11471 · arxiv_version: 1710.11471v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.11471 · pith_short_12: BZ4JL5TLSBRP · pith_short_16: BZ4JL5TLSBRP2IYN · pith_short_8: BZ4JL5TL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BZ4JL5TLSBRP2IYNYENHVH35PT \
  | 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: 0e7895f66b9062fd230dc11a7a9f7d7cf0049658488f4d9b8e2a3793a5f0c47a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41d160a0e453222f040070c347407e7f136c46a2dfd5ce3747fe299e0e73b6eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PF",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-28T10:46:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "401cc1556812c2b09ab5d6d8dabefb63d5ab355b57cfc12292b38bddca45725c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.11471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}