English
Related papers

Related papers: Pagurus: Eliminating Cold Startup in Serverless Co…

200 papers

Serverless platforms typically adopt an early-binding approach for function sizing, requiring developers to specify an immutable size for each function within a workflow beforehand. Accounting for potential runtime variability, developers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jing Wu , Lin Wang , Quanfeng Deng , Chen Yu , Dong Zhang , Bingheng Yan , Fangming Liu

Open-source 5G core implementations deploy network functions as always-on processes that consume resources even when idle. This inefficiency is most acute in private and edge deployments with sporadic traffic. Serverless5GC is an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hai Dinh-Tuan

With the rapid growth of IoT devices and their diverse workloads, container-based microservices deployed at edge nodes have become a lightweight and scalable solution. However, existing microservice scheduling algorithms often assume static…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jingxi Lu , Wenhao Li , Jianxiong Guo , Xingjian Ding , Zhiqing Tang , Tian Wang , Weijia Jia

In this paper a new Web-based File Hosting Service with Object Oriented Logic in Cloud Computing called Pirus was developed. The service will be used by the academic community of the University of Piraeus giving users the ability to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Dimitrios Kallergis , Konstantinos Chimos , Vizikidis Stefanos , Theodoros Karvounidis , Christos Douligeris

We present a framework for concurrency control and availability in multi-datacenter datastores. While we consider Google's Megastore as our motivating example, we define general abstractions for key components, making our solution…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Stacy Patterson , Aaron J. Elmore , Faisal Nawab , Divyakant Agrawal , Amr El Abbadi

FaaS offers significant advantages with its infrastructure abstraction, on-demand execution, and attractive no idle resource pricing for modern cloud applications. Despite these benefits, challenges such as startup latencies, static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

The serverless cloud computing model offers a framework where the service provider abstracts the underlying infrastructure management from developers. In this serverless model, FaaS provides an event-driven, function-oriented computing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Serverless Computing (FaaS) has become a popular paradigm for deep learning inference due to the ease of deployment and pay-per-use benefits. However, current serverless inference platforms encounter the coarse-grained and static GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jianfeng Gu , Puxuan Wang , Isaac David Nunez Araya , Kai Huang , Michael Gerndt

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

Serverless computing has emerged as a promising computing paradigm for edge computing. However, adopting the event driven model in highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed edge systems poses significant challenges in request placement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chen Chen , Zihan Jia , Andrea Sabbioni , Reza Farahani , Lei Jiao

We consider a discrete-time system comprising a first-come-first-served queue, a non-preemptive server, and a stationary non-work-conserving scheduler. New tasks enter the queue according to a Bernoulli process with a pre-specified arrival…

Applications · Statistics 2020-08-05 Michael Lin , Nuno C. Martins , Richard J. La

Serverless computing is increasingly adopted for its ability to manage complex, event-driven workloads without the need for infrastructure provisioning. However, traditional resource allocation in serverless platforms couples CPU and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Lingxiao Jin , Zinuo Cai , Zebin Chen , Hongyu Zhao , Ruhui Ma

Quorum systems are useful tools for implementing consistent and available storage in the presence of failures. These systems usually comprise a static set of servers that provide a fault-tolerant read/write register accessed by a set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Eduardo Alchieri , Alysson Bessani , Fabiola Greve , Joni Fraga

Inexpensive cloud services, such as serverless computing, are often vulnerable to straggling nodes that increase end-to-end latency for distributed computation. We propose and implement simple yet principled approaches for straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vipul Gupta , Dominic Carrano , Yaoqing Yang , Vaishaal Shankar , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

As multimodal and AI-driven services exchange hundreds of megabytes per request, existing IPC runtimes spend a growing share of CPU cycles on memory copies. Although both hardware and software mechanisms are exploring memory offloading,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Misun Park , Richi Dubey , Yifan Yuan , Nam Sung Kim , Ada Gavrilovska

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of its lower cost and easier deployment. Several cloud service providers (CSPs) offer serverless computing on their public clouds, but it may bring the vendor lock-in risk. To avoid this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

Serverless computing significantly alters software development by abstracting infrastructure management and enabling rapid, modular, event-driven deployments. Despite its benefits, the distinct characteristics of serverless functions, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Amine Barrak , Emna Ksontini , Ridouane Atike , Fehmi Jaafar

The availability of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) computing clouds gives researchers access to a large set of new resources for running complex scientific applications. However, exploiting cloud resources for large numbers of jobs…

Current serverless offerings give users a limited degree of flexibility for configuring the resources allocated to their function invocations by either coupling memory and CPU resources together or providing no knobs at all. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Muhammad Bilal , Marco Canini , Rodrigo Fonseca , Rodrigo Rodrigues

Serverless is an attractive computing model that offers seamless scalability and elasticity; it takes the infrastructure management burden away from users and enables a pay-as-you-use billing model. As a result, serverless is becoming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Serhii Ivanenko , Vasyl Lanko , Rudi Horn , Vojin Jovanovic , Rodrigo Bruno