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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become a central paradigm in serverless cloud computing, yet optimizing FaaS deployments remains challenging. Using function fusion, multiple functions can be combined into a single deployment unit, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Niklas Kowallik , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

In FaaS, users invoke remote functions, which encapsulate service(s). These functions typically need to remotely access a persistent state via external services: this makes the paradigm less attractive in edge systems, especially for IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Carlo Puliafito , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Enzo Mingozzi , Andrea Passarella

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent work proposed using domain-specific languages to express…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

We present FunLess, a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform tailored for the private edge cloud system. FunLess responds to recent trends that advocate for extending the coverage of serverless computing to private edge cloud systems and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

In Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) serverless, large applications are split into short-lived stateless functions. Deploying functions is mutually profitable: users need not be concerned with resource management, while providers can keep their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yuxuan Zhao , Weikang Weng , Rob van Nieuwpoort , Alexandru Uta

Cloud computing, despite its inherent advantages (e.g., resource efficiency) still faces several challenges. the wide are network used to connect the cloud to end-users could cause high latency, which may not be tolerable for some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Carla Mouradian , Fereshteh Ebrahimnezhad , Yassine Jebbar , Jasmeen Kaur Ahluwalia , Seyedeh Negar Afrasiabi , Roch H. Glitho , Ashok Moghe

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a disruptive networking architecture whose galloping evolution is prompting enterprises to outsource network functions to the cloud and ultimately harvest the fruits of cloud computing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Moubarak Zoure , Toufik Ahmed , Laurent Réveillère

Serverless technologies, also known as FaaS (Function as a Service), are promoted as solutions that provide dynamic scalability, speed of development, cost-per-consumption model, and the ability to focus on the code while taking attention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Juan Mera Menéndez , Jose Emilio Labra Gayo , Enrique Riesgo Canal , Aitor Echevarría Fernández

Aggregated HPC resources have rigid allocation systems and programming models which struggle to adapt to diverse and changing workloads. Consequently, HPC systems fail to efficiently use the large pools of unused memory and increase the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Marcin Copik , Marcin Chrapek , Larissa Schmid , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

Serverless computing is a paradigm in which the underlying infrastructure is fully managed by the provider, enabling applications and services to be executed with elastic resource provisioning and minimal operational overhead. A core model…

The networking industry, compared to the compute industry, has been slow in evolving from a closed ecosystem with limited abstractions to a more open ecosystem with well-defined sophisticated high level abstractions. This has resulted in an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Junaid Qadir , Nadeem Ahmed , Faqir Zarrar Yousaf , Ali Taqweem

Serverless clouds promise efficient scaling, reduced toil and monetary costs. Yet, serverless-ing a complex, legacy application might require major refactoring and thus is risky. As a case study, we use Airflow, an industry-standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Filip Mikina , Pawel Zuk , Krzysztof Rzadca

Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varad Kulkarni , Nikhil Reddy , Tuhin Khare , Abhinandan S. Prasad , Chitra Babu , Yogesh Simmhan

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is the problem of deploying various network service instances over geographically distributed data centers and providing inter-connectivity among them. The goal is to enable the network traffic to flow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Deval Bhamare , Mohammed Samaka , Aiman Erbad , Raj Jain , Lav Gupta , H. Anthony Chan

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a growing cloud computing paradigm that is expected to reduce the user cost of service over traditional serverful approaches. However, the environmental impact of FaaS has not received much attention. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Sirui Qi , Hayden Moore , Ninad Hogade , Dejan Milojicic , Cullen Bash , Sudeep Pasricha

The serverless computing ecosystem is growing due to interest by software engineers. Beside Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) systems, developer-oriented tools such as deployment and debugging frameworks as well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Josef Spillner

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a recent and already very popular paradigm in cloud computing. The function provider need only specify the function to be run, usually in a high-level language like JavaScript, and the service provider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Fritz Alder , N. Asokan , Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , Michael Steiner

Current Serverless abstractions (e.g., FaaS) poorly support non-functional requirements (e.g., QoS and constraints), are provider-dependent, and are incompatible with other cloud abstractions (e.g., databases). As a result, application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Hai Duc Nguyen , Mohsen Amini Salehi

The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francisco Carpio , Marc Michalke , Admela Jukan

Developing stateful cloud applications, such as low-latency workflows and microservices with strict consistency requirements, remains arduous for programmers. The Stateful Functions-as-a-Service (SFaaS) paradigm aims to serve these use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kyriakos Psarakis , George Christodoulou , George Siachamis , Marios Fragkoulis , Asterios Katsifodimos