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Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for developing applications at the function level, known as serverless functions. Due to the highly dynamic execution environment, multiple identical runs of the same serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Federica Sarro , Shangguang Wang

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm has a lot of potential as a computing model for fog environments comprising both cloud and edge nodes. When the request rate exceeds capacity limits at the edge, some functions need to be offloaded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-05 David Bermbach , Setareh Maghsudi , Jonathan Hasenburg , Tobias Pfandzelter

The increasing use of Internet of Things devices coincides with more communication and data movement in networks, which can exceed existing network capabilities. These devices often process sensor or user information, where data privacy and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Daniel Habenicht , Kevin Kreutz , Soeren Becker , Jonathan Bader , Lauritz Thamsen , Odej Kao

The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to a new wave of edge computing due to the need to process data on the edge, closer to where it is being produced and attempting to move away from a cloud-centric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Hamza Javed , Adel N. Toosi , Mohammad S. Aslanpour

Serverless computing has become a new trending paradigm in cloud computing, allowing developers to focus on the development of core application logic and rapidly construct the prototype via the composition of independent functions. With the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinfeng Wen , Yi Liu , Zhenpeng Chen , Junkai Chen , Yun Ma

Serverless functions provide elastic scaling and a fine-grained billing model, making Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) an attractive programming model. However, for distributed jobs that benefit from large-scale and dynamic parallelism, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marcin Copik , Roman Böhringer , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

The Serverless Computing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ease of use and fine-grained billing. These features make it appealing for stateful application or serverless workflow. However, current serverless workflow systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Xiaoxiang Shi , Chao Li , Zijun Li , Zihan Liu , Dianmo Sheng , Quan Chen , Jingwen Leng , Minyi Guo

Experimental data can aid in gaining insights about a system operation, as well as determining critical aspects of a modelling or simulation process. In this paper, we analyze the data acquired from an extensive experimentation process in a…

Modern HPC workload managers and their careful tuning contribute to the high utilization of HPC clusters. However, due to inevitable uncertainty it is impossible to completely avoid node idleness. Although such idle slots are usually too…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Bartłomiej Przybylski , Maciej Pawlik , Paweł Żuk , Bartłomiej Łagosz , Maciej Malawski , Krzysztof Rzadca

Serverless computing simplifies deployment and scaling, yet cold-start latency remains a major performance bottleneck. Unlike prior work that treats mitigation as a black-box optimization, we study cold starts as a developer-visible design…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Foyzul Hassan , Amiangshu Bosu , Probir Roy

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…

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

Modern FaaS systems perform well in the case of repeat executions when function working sets stay small. However, these platforms are less effective when applied to more complex, large-scale and dynamic workloads. In this paper, we…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-04 James Cadden , Thomas Unger , Yara Awad , Han Dong , Orran Krieger , Jonathan Appavoo

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

The serverless platform aims to facilitate cloud applications' straightforward deployment, scaling, and management. Unfortunately, the distributed nature of serverless computing makes it difficult to port traditional security tools…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chuang Li , Lanfang Huang , Dian He , Yanhua Wen , Gang Liu , Lixin Duan

We present a framework for performance optimization in serverless edge-cloud platforms using dynamic task placement. We focus on applications for smart edge devices, for example, smart cameras or speakers, that need to perform processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Anirban Das , Shigeru Imai , Mike P. Wittie , Stacy Patterson

Serverless edge computing adopts an event-based paradigm that provides back-end services on an as-used basis, resulting in efficient resource utilization. To improve the end-to-end latency and revenue, service providers need to optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Chen Chen , Manuel Herrera , Ge Zheng , Liqiao Xia , Zhengyang Ling , Jiangtao Wang

Serverless query processing has become increasingly popular due to its auto-scaling, high elasticity, and pay-as-you-go pricing. It allows cloud data warehouse (or lakehouse) users to focus on data analysis without the burden of managing…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haoqiong Bian , Dongyang Geng , Yunpeng Chai , Anastasia Ailamaki

Serverless computing has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

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