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The serverless and functions as a service (FaaS) paradigms are currently trending among cloud providers and are now increasingly being applied to the network edge, and to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The benefits include reduced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Pekka Karhula , Jan Janak , Henning Schulzrinne

In recent years, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices/sensors has increased to a great extent. To support the computational demand of real-time latency-sensitive applications of largely geo-distributed IoT devices/sensors, a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Redowan Mahmud , Ramamohanarao Kotagiri , Rajkumar Buyya

The modern era has seen a speedy growth in the Internet of Things (IoT). As per statistics of 2020, twenty billion devices will be connected to the Internet. This massive increase in Internet connected devices will lead to a lot of efforts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Deepak kumar Aggarwal , Rajni Aron

Edge computing has evolved to be a promising avenue to enhance the system computing capability by offloading processing tasks from the cloud to edge devices. In this paper, we propose a multi-layer edge computing framework called EdgeFlow.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Chao Yao , Xiaoyang Wang , Zijie Zheng , Guangyu Sun , Lingyang Song

Cloud computing has grown to become a popular distributed computing service offered by commercial providers. More recently, Edge and Fog computing resources have emerged on the wide-area network as part of Internet of Things (IoT)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Prateeksha Varshney , Yogesh Simmhan

The edge of the network has the potential to host services for supporting a variety of user applications, ranging in complexity from data preprocessing, image and video rendering, and interactive gaming, to embedded systems in autonomous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Blesson Varghese , Massimo Villari , Omer Rana , Philip James , Tejal Shal , Maria Fazio , Rajiv Ranjan

The use of Deep Learning and Machine Learning is becoming pervasive day by day which is opening doors to new opportunities in every aspect of technology. Its application Ranges from Health-care to Self-driving Cars, Home Automation to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Hamza Ali Imran , Usama Mujahid , Saad Wazir , Usama Latif , Kiran Mehmood

In recent years, the rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) nodes and devices has seamlessly integrated technology into everyday life, amplifying the demand for optimized computing solutions. To meet the critical Quality of Service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Iqra Batool , Sania Kanwal

Edge computing is the next Internet frontier that will leverage computing resources located near users, sensors, and data stores to provide more responsive services. Therefore, it is envisioned that a large-scale, geographically dispersed,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Blesson Varghese , Nan Wang , David Bermbach , Cheol-Ho Hong , Eyal de Lara , Weisong Shi , Christopher Stewart

The huge amount of data generated by the Internet of things (IoT) devices needs the computational power and storage capacity provided by cloud, edge, and fog computing paradigms. Each of these computing paradigms has its own pros and cons.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Binayak Kar , Widhi Yahya , Ying-Dar Lin , Asad Ali

For various reasons, the cloud computing paradigm is unable to meet certain requirements (e.g. low latency and jitter, context awareness, mobility support) that are crucial for several applications (e.g. vehicular networks, augmented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Rodrigo Roman , Javier Lopez , Masahiro Mambo

Edge technology aims to bring Cloud resources (specifically, the compute, storage, and network) to the closed proximity of the Edge devices, i.e., smart devices where the data are produced and consumed. Embedding computing and application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Sabuzima Nayak , Ripon Patgiri , Lilapati Waikhom , Arif Ahmed

Edge/Fog computing is a novel computing paradigm that provides resource-limited Internet of Things (IoT) devices with scalable computing and storage resources. Compared to cloud computing, edge/fog servers have fewer resources, but they can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Mohammad Goudarzi , Qifan Deng , Rajkumar Buyya

The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has intensified the demand for efficient and responsive services. To address this demand, fog and edge computing have emerged as distributed paradigms that bring computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ali Akbar Vali , Sadoon Azizi , Mohammad Shojafar , Rajkumar Buyya

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

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

Developing accurate and extendable performance models for serverless platforms, aka Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, is a very challenging task. Also, implementation and experimentation on real serverless platforms is both costly and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nima Mahmoudi , Hamzeh Khazaei

In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive overview on three core pillars of metaverse-as-a-service (MaaS) platforms; privacy and security, edge computing, and blockchain technology. The article starts by investigating security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Vesal Ahsani , Ali Rahimi , Mehdi Letafati , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud computing model in which applications are implemented as work flows of multiple independent functions. While cloud providers usually offer composition services for such workflows, they do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

In the near future, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to connect billions of devices (e.g., smartphones and sensors), which generate massive real-time data at the network edge. Intelligence can be distilled from the data to support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qiao Lan , Zezhong Zhang , Yuqing Du , Zhenyi Lin , Kaibin Huang