Recently, He Songlin, a member of Prof. Sun Linfu’s team at the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, received the Best Paper Award with his paper entitled “Optimized Deliverer Selection in Blockchain-Based P2P Content Delivery Networks” at the 2024 IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC).

The paper was officially affiliated with Southwest Jiaotong University, with Yan Zhenchao, a 2026 Ph.D. student, as the first author, and He Songlin as the corresponding author. Other contributors included researchers from Northwest University, China, and New Jersey Institute of Technology & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.

The paper describes the optimal distributor selection problem and its solution for Blockchain-based peer-to-peer content distribution networks (P2P CDNs).