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pith:VHHQOBTQ

pith:2016:VHHQOBTQJBUJYHKBF55TE7CSWA

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A Survey on Replica Server Placement Algorithms for Content Delivery Networks

Halima Elbiaze (Member IEEE), Jagruti Sahoo (Member IEEE), Mohammad A. Salahuddin (Member IEEE), Roch Glitho, (Senior Member IEEE), Wessam Ajib (Member IEEE)

arxiv:1611.01729 v1 · 2016-11-06 · cs.NI

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\pithnumber{VHHQOBTQJBUJYHKBF55TE7CSWA}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:00:04.587369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9cf07067048689c1d412f7b327c52b0236e5e3f99515db8b8a8e2d2f0c117e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.01729 · arxiv_version: 1611.01729v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.01729 · pith_short_12: VHHQOBTQJBUJ · pith_short_16: VHHQOBTQJBUJYHKB · pith_short_8: VHHQOBTQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VHHQOBTQJBUJYHKBF55TE7CSWA \
  | 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: a9cf07067048689c1d412f7b327c52b0236e5e3f99515db8b8a8e2d2f0c117e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0052681cb4d6e538bb40d358a4524bc2b61aadc32acfcd0b3fd71de329d3f71",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-06T05:03:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76f88b08af9375f4263fc6570ea82dffdd363604851737d6fad072c689017615"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.01729",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}