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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

There is an increasing trend that enterprises outsource their network functions to the cloud for lower cost and ease of management. However, network function outsourcing brings threats to the privacy of enterprises since the cloud is able…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Huazhe Wang , Xin Li , Yu Zhao , Ye Yu , Hongkun Yang , Chen Qian

Federated Learning (FL) is a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework that has gained a significant amount of research attention recently. Despite the different forms of FL algorithms (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jieming Bian , Cong Shen , Jie Xu

It is increasingly common to outsource network functions (NFs) to the cloud. However, no cloud providers offer NFs-as-a-Service (NFaaS) that allows users to run custom NFs. Our work addresses how a cloud provider can offer NFaaS. We use the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Arjun Singhvi , Junaid Khalid , Aditya Akella , Sujata Banerjee

Developers increasingly use function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms for data-centric applications that perform low-latency and transactional operations on data, such as for microservices or web serving. Unfortunately, existing FaaS platforms…

We present an Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform for realising distributed cloud architectures and integrating the edge of the network in the computing ecosystem. The EaaS platform is underpinned by (i) a lightweight discovery protocol that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Blesson Varghese , Nan Wang , Jianyu Li , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Cloud computing changed the way of computing as utility services offered through public network. Selecting multiple providers for various computational requirements improves performance and minimizes cost of cloud services than choosing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Thiruselvan Subramanian , Nickolas Savarimuthu

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is at the core of serverless computing, enabling developers to easily deploy applications without managing computing resources. With an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, frameworks like the Serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Angel C. Chavez-Moreno , Cristina L. Abad

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

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

The function-as-a-service (FaaS) paradigm is envisioned as the next generation of cloud computing systems that mitigate the burden for cloud-native application developers by abstracting them from cloud resource management. However, it does…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Mohsen Amini Salehi

CapsuleFS (CFS) is the first filesystem to integrate multi-credential functionality within a POSIX-compliant framework, utilizing DataCapsule as the storage provider. This innovative system is established based on the Global Data Plane in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qingyang Hu , Yucheng Huang , Manshi Yang

Extended reality (XR) applications require computationally demanding functionalities with low end-to-end latency and high throughput. To enable XR on commodity devices, a number of distributed systems solutions enable offloading of XR…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Jin Heo , Ketan Bhardwaj , Ada Gavrilovska

Cloud computing is an emerging technology in distributed computing which facilitates pay per model as per user demand and requirement.Cloud consist of a collection of virtual machine which includes both computational and storage facility.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Dr. Amit Agarwal , Saloni Jain

In this paper, we address the problem of supporting stateful workflows following a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model in edge networks. In particular we focus on the problem of data transfer, which can be a performance bottleneck due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

The paper illustrates how we built a federated cloud computing platform dedicated to the Italian research community. Building a cloud platform is a daunting task, that requires coordinating the deployment of many services, interrelated and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Giuseppe Attardi , Alex Barchiesi , Alberto Colla , Fulvio Galeazzi , Giovanni Marzulli , Mario Reale

Fast, reliable, and efficient data transmission across wide-area networks is a predominant bottleneck for data-intensive cloud applications. This paper introduces OneDataShare, which is designed to eliminate the issues plaguing effective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Asif Imran , Md S Q Zulkar Nine , Kemal Guner , Tevfik Kosar

Rapid adoption of the serverless (or Function-as-a-Service, FaaS) paradigm, pioneered by Amazon with AWS Lambda and followed by numerous commercial offerings and open source projects, introduces new challenges in designing the cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Ping-Min Lin , Alex Glikson

High-performance computing (HPC) systems and cloud data centers are converging, and containers are becoming the default method of portable software deployment. Yet, while containers simplify software management, they face significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Marcin Copik , Eiman Alnuaimi , Alok Kamatar , Valerie Hayot-Sasson , Alberto Madonna , Todd Gamblin , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster , Torsten Hoefler

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