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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

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

Chaining functions for longer workloads is a key use case for FaaS platforms in data applications. However, modern data pipelines differ significantly from typical serverless use cases (e.g., webhooks and microservices); this makes it…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jacopo Tagliabue , Tyler Caraza-Harter , Ciro Greco

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, as compute requests can be scheduled across the entire fog continuum in a fine-grained manner.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-24 David Bermbach , Jonathan Bader , Jonathan Hasenburg , Tobias Pfandzelter , Lauritz Thamsen

Expectations regarding the future growth of Internet of Things (IoT)-related technologies are high. These expectations require the realization of a sustainable general purpose application framework that is capable to handle these kinds of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Alexandre Da Silva Veith , Julio C. S. dos Anjos , Edison Pignaton de Freitas , Thomas Lampoltshammer , Claudio Geyer

In this paper, we conduct systematic measurement studies to show that the high memory bandwidth consumption of modern distributed applications can lead to a significant drop of network throughput and a large increase of tail latency in…

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

We consider robust resource allocation of services in Clouds. More specifically, we consider the case of a large public or private Cloud platform that runs a relatively small set of large and independent services. These services are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Olivier Beaumont , Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Paul Renaud-Goud

As particle accelerator control systems evolve in complexity and scale, the need for responsive, scalable, and cost-effective computational infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers an alternative to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 A. Jaikar , J. Diamond , A. Tiradani , B. Harrison

Serverless computing is a cloud computing paradigm that allows developers to focus exclusively on business logic as cloud service providers manage resource management tasks. Serverless applications follow this model, where the application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Anshul Jindal , Mohak Chadha , Shajulin Benedict , Michael Gerndt

GB-scale large apps like on-device LLMs and rich media editors are becoming the next-generation trend, but their heavy memory and I/O demands, especially during multitasking, cause devices to reclaim or kill processes, turning warm apps…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xiaochen Li , Sicong Liu , Bin Guo , Yu Ouyang , Fengmin Wu , Yuan Xu , Zhiwen Yu

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that enables developers to build applications at the function level, known as serverless applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading provider in this domain, provides the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Federica Sarro , Zixi Zhu , Yi Liu , Haodi Ping , Shangguang Wang

Serverless computing has revolutionized cloud architectures by enabling developers to deploy event-driven applications via lightweight, self-contained virtualized containers. However, serverless frameworks face critical cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sabyasachi Gupta , Paul Gratz , John Lusher

The problem of content delivery in caching networks is investigated for scenarios where multiple users request identical files. Redundant user demands are likely when the file popularity distribution is highly non-uniform or the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Seyed Ali Saberali , Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar , Lutz Lampe , Ian Blake

In a continuous deployment setting, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications frequently receive updated releases, each of which can cause a performance regression. While continuous benchmarking, i.e., comparing benchmark results of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tim C. Rese , Nils Japke , Sebastian Koch , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud paradigm that offers an elastic and scalable allocation of computing resources with pay-as-you-go billing. In the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, applications comprise short-lived…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Wei Qiu , Marcin Copik , Yun Wang , Alexandru Calotoiu , 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

Function as a Service (FaaS) is a new cloud technology with automated resource management. Different from traditional cloud computing, each FaaS cloud function can only run a fixed period of time before being decommissioned. Furthermore,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Kim Long Ngo , Joydeep Mukherjee , Zhen Ming Jiang , Marin Litoiu

The increasing adoption of UAVs with advanced sensors and GPU-accelerated edge computing has enabled real-time AI-driven applications in fields such as precision agriculture, wildfire monitoring, and environmental conservation. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Suman Raj , Rajdeep Singh , Kautuk Astu , Yogesh Simmhan

Cloud systems are complex, large, and dynamic systems whose behavior must be continuously analyzed to timely detect misbehaviors and failures. Although there are solutions to flexibly monitor cloud systems, cost-effectively controlling the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Marco Mobilio , Matteo Orrù , Oliviero Riganelli , Alessandro Tundo , Leonardo Mariani