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The rise of complex, latency-sensitive IoT applications across the Edge-Cloud continuum exposes the limitations of current Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms in seamlessly addressing the complexity, heterogeneity, and intermittent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Juahn Kwon , Hai Duc Nguyen , Mohsen Amini Salehi

In this position paper we argue for standardizing how we share and process data in scientific workflows at the network-level to maximize step re-use and workflow portability across platforms and networks in pursuit of a foundational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Taylor Paul , William Regli

Agentic workflows that use autonomous AI Agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers is rapidly rising. This introduces challenges in scalable cloud deployment and state management. Traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Varad Kulkarni , Vaibhav Jha , Nikhil Reddy , Anand Eswaran , Praveen Jayachandran , Yogesh Simmhan

Function-as-a-Service is a novel type of cloud service used for creating distributed applications and utilizing computing resources. Application developer supplies source code of cloud functions, which are small applications or application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Maciej Pawlik , Kamil Figiela , Maciej Malawski

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm that frees developers from server management. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the most popular implementation of serverless computing, representing applications as event-driven and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xuanzhe Liu , Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Ding Li , Junkai Chen , Yi Liu , Haoyu Wang , Xin Jin

Due to the popularity of the FaaS programming model, there is now a wide variety of commercial and open-source FaaS systems. Hence, for comparison of different FaaS systems and their configuration options, FaaS application developers rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Martin Grambow , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for its ease-of-management and elasticity. However, optimizing scheduling for serverless functions remains challenging due to their dynamic and event-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zhuangbin Chen , Juzheng Zheng , Zibin Zheng

Python-written data analytics applications can be modeled as and compiled into a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based workflow, where the nodes are fine-grained tasks and the edges are task dependencies. Such analytics workflow jobs are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Benjamin Carver , Jingyuan Zhang , Ao Wang , Yue Cheng

In Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) networks, users covered by a mobile network can exploit edge clouds (ECs), computational resources located at the network's edge, to execute virtual network functions (VNFs). ECs are particularly useful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Federico Giarrè , Holger Karl

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and "serverless" cloud computing are becoming increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do minimal I/O and communication. We argue that the benefits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Vikram Sreekanti , Chenggang Wu , Xiayue Charles Lin , Johann Schleier-Smith , Jose M. Faleiro , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Alexey Tumanov

Graph processing systems are essential for analyzing large-scale data with complex relationships, yet most existing frameworks rely on statically provisioned clusters, resulting in poor elasticity and inefficient resource utilization under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Zhao , Parsa Poorsistani , Mohammad Goudarzi , Tawfiq Islam , Adel N. Toosi

Distributed stateful stream processing enables the deployment and execution of large scale continuous computations in the cloud, targeting both low latency and high throughput. One of the most fundamental challenges of this paradigm is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Paris Carbone , Gyula Fóra , Stephan Ewen , Seif Haridi , Kostas Tzoumas

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a type of serverless computing that allows developers to write and deploy code as individual functions, which can be triggered by specific events or requests. FaaS platforms automatically manage the…

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one form of the serverless cloud computing paradigm and is defined through FaaS platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda) executing event-triggered code snippets (i.e., functions). Many studies that empirically evaluate…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Joel Scheuner , Philipp Leitner

Real-time data processing applications with low latency requirements have led to the increasing popularity of stream processing systems. While such systems offer convenient APIs that can be used to achieve data parallelism automatically,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Konstantinos Kallas , Filip Niksic , Caleb Stanford , Rajeev Alur

Dataflow devices represent an avenue towards saving the control and data movement overhead of Load-Store Architectures. Various dataflow accelerators have been proposed, but how to efficiently schedule applications on such devices remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Tiziano De Matteis , Lukas Gianinazzi , Johannes de Fine Licht , Torsten Hoefler

Internet of Things (IoT) is leading to the pervasive availability of streaming data about the physical world, coupled with edge computing infrastructure deployed as part of smart cities and 5G rollout. These constrained, less reliable but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Prateeksha Varshney , Shriram Ramesh , Shayal Chhabra , Aakash Khochare , Yogesh Simmhan

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

Next-generation distributed computing networks (e.g., edge and fog computing) enable the efficient delivery of delay-sensitive, compute-intensive applications by facilitating access to computation resources in close proximity to end users.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

Serverless execution and most notably the Function as a Service (FaaS) model got quite some attention during the recent years. As of today, all commercial and open source implementations follow the common practice of keeping the execution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Dániel Géhberger , Dávid Kovács