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Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regarding cold start latency and resource utilization. Traditional static resource allocation often leads to inefficiencies under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zeyu Wang , Cuiqianhe Du , Renyue Zhang , Kejian Tong , Qi He , Qiyuan Tian

Serverless computing has gained popularity in edge computing due to its flexible features, including the pay-per-use pricing model, auto-scaling capabilities, and multi-tenancy support. Complex Serverless-based applications typically rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ke Luo , Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Serverless computing is an approach to cloud computing that allows programmers to run serverless functions in response to external events. Serverless functions are priced at sub-second granularity, support transparent elasticity, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Emily Herbert , Arjun Guha

Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiong Lou , Zhiqing Tang , Shijing Yuan , Jie Li , Chengtao Wu , Weijia Jia

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest in running serverless functions at the edge. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Bin Wang , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

This paper introduces a new primitive to serverless language runtimes called freshen. With freshen, developers or providers specify functionality to perform before a given function executes. This proactive technique allows for overheads…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Erika Hunhoff , Shazal Irshad , Vijay Thurimella , Ali Tariq , Eric Rozner

Serverless computing adopts a pay-as-you-go billing model where applications are executed in stateless and shortlived containers triggered by events, resulting in a reduction of monetary costs and resource utilization. However, existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chen Chen , Peiyuan Guan , Ziru Chen , Amir Taherkordi , Fen Hou , Lin X. Cai

As an emerging cloud computing deployment paradigm, serverless computing is gaining traction due to its efficiency and ability to harness on-demand cloud resources. However, a significant hurdle remains in the form of the cold start…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Cheryl Lee , Zhouruixing Zhu , Tianyi Yang , Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Pinjia He , Michael R. Lyu

Serverless computing promises convenient abstractions for developing and deploying functions that execute in response to events. In such Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, scheduling is an integral task, but current scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Saman Akbari , Manfred Hauswirth

Automatic network management strategies have become paramount for meeting the needs of innovative real-time and data-intensive applications, such as in the Internet of Things. However, meeting the ever-growing and fluctuating demands for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Fatemeh Banaie , Karim Djemame , Abdulaziz Alhindi , Vasilios Kelefouras

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Serverless computing that runs functions with auto-scaling is a popular task execution pattern in the cloud-native era. By connecting serverless functions into workflows, tenants can achieve complex functionality. Prior researches adopt the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Zijun Li , Chuhao Xu , Quan Chen , Jieru Zhao , Chen Chen , Minyi Guo

Serverless computing platforms currently rely on basic pricing schemes that are static and do not reflect customer feedback. This leads to significant inefficiencies from a total utility perspective. As one of the fastest-growing cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Vipul Gupta , Soham Phade , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

Serverless computing, also referred to as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), is a cloud computing model that has attracted significant attention and has been widely adopted in recent years. The serverless computing model offers an intuitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michail Tsenos , Aristotelis Peri , Vana Kalogeraki

Serverless computing has rapidly emerged as a popular cloud computing paradigm. It enables developers to implement function-level tasks, i.e., serverless functions, without managing infrastructure. While reducing operational overhead, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jinfeng Wen , Yuehan Sun

With the increasing demand for high-performance and high-efficiency computing, cloud computing, especially serverless computing, has gradually become a research hotspot in recent years, attracting numerous research attention. Meanwhile,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hanzhe Li , Bingchen Lin , Mengyuan Xu

Serverless computing has grown rapidly for serving Large Language Model (LLM) inference due to its pay-as-you-go pricing, fine-grained GPU usage, and rapid scaling. However, our analysis reveals that current serverless can effectively serve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yifan Sui , Hao Wang , Hanfei Yu , Yitao Hu , Jianxun Li , Hao Wang

Serverless computing provides infrastructure management and elastic auto-scaling, therefore reducing operational overhead. By design serverless functions are stateless, which means they typically leverage external remote services to store…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Cynthia Marcelino , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic

Serverless computing has transformed cloud application deployment by introducing a fine-grained, event-driven execution model that abstracts away infrastructure management. Its on-demand nature makes it especially appealing for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chanh Nguyen , Monowar Bhuyan , Erik Elmroth

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi