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In the quest for efficiency and performance, edge-computing providers eliminate isolation boundaries between tenants, such as strict process isolation, and instead let them compute in a more lightweight multi-threaded single-process design.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Martin Schwarzl , Pietro Borrello , Andreas Kogler , Kenton Varda , Thomas Schuster , Daniel Gruss , Michael Schwarz

Serverless computing is a widely adopted cloud execution model composed of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings. The increased level of abstraction makes vendor lock-in inherent to serverless computing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haidong Zhao , Zakaria Benomar , Tobias Pfandzelter , Nikolaos Georgantas

In the future, computing will be immersed in the world around us -- from augmented reality to autonomous vehicles to the Internet of Things. Many of these smart devices will offer services that respond in real time to their physical…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuxin Ren , Vlad Nitu , Guyue Liu , Gabriel Parmer , Timothy Wood , Alain Tchana , Riley Kennedy

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

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 becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers realize services by packaging sequences of stateless function…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building scalable and cost-efficient microservices and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Marcin Copik , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Maciej Besta , Michal Podstawski , Torsten Hoefler

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

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

5G and beyond support the deployment of vertical applications, which is particularly appealing in combination with network slicing and edge computing to create a logically isolated environment for executing customer services. Even if…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Claudio Cicconetti , Raffaele Bruno , Andrea Passarella

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

With the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the cloud computing paradigm, strong isolation guarantees and low performance overhead from isolation platforms are paramount. An ideal isolation platform offers both: an impermeable isolation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Vincent van Rijn , Jan S. Rellermeyer

Containers are increasingly used as means to distribute and run Linux services and applications. In this paper we describe the architectural design and implementation of udocker, a tool which enables the user to execute Linux containers in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jorge Gomes , Isabel Campos , Emanuele Bagnaschi , Mario David , Luis Alves , Joao Martins , Joao Pina , Alvaro Lopez-Garcia , Pablo Orviz

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a promising paradigm for applications distributed across the edge-cloud continuum. FaaS functions are stateless by nature, leading to high elasticity and transparent invocation. Supporting stateful…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

While edge computing is envisioned to superbly serve latency sensitive applications, the implementation-based studies benchmarking its performance are few and far between. To address this gap, we engineer a modular edge cloud computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Francisco Carpio , Marta Delgado , Admela Jukan

FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) revolutionized cloud computing by replacing persistent virtual machines with dynamically allocated resources. This shift trades locality and statefulness for a pay-as-you-go model more suited to variable and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Marcin Copik , Alexandru Calotoiu , Pengyu Zhou , Konstantin Taranov , Torsten Hoefler

Serverless computing has seen a myriad of work exploring its potential. Some systems tackle Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) properties on automatic elasticity and scale to run highly-parallel computing jobs. However, they focus on specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Daniel Barcelona-Pons , Pedro García-López

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

Serverless computing has rapidly grown following the launch of Amazon's Lambda platform. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) a key enabler of serverless computing allows an application to be decomposed into simple, standalone functions that are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Anshul Jindal , Michael Gerndt , Mohak Chadha , Vladimir Podolskiy , Pengfei Chen

Serverless computing, also referred to as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), is a cloud computing model that has attracted significant attention and has been widely adopted in recent years. The serverless computing model offers an intuitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michail Tsenos , Aristotelis Peri , Vana Kalogeraki