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The field of distributed machine learning (ML) faces increasing demands for scalable and cost-effective training solutions, particularly in the context of large, complex models. Serverless computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amine Barrak , Fabio Petrillo , Fehmi Jaafar

Cloud computing enables the dynamic provisioning of server resources. To exploit this opportunity, a policy is needed for dynamically allocating (and deallocating) servers in response to the current load conditions. In this paper we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Niklas Carlsson , Derek Eager

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. To provide cloud computing services economically, it is important to optimize resource allocation under the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Shin-ichi Kuribayashi

Cloud Computing holds the potential to eliminate the requirements for setting up of high-cost computing infrastructure for the IT-based solutions and services that the industry uses. It promises to provide a flexible IT architecture,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Rohit Bhadauria , Rituparna Chaki , Nabendu Chaki , Sugata Sanyal

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of its lower cost and easier deployment. Several cloud service providers (CSPs) offer serverless computing on their public clouds, but it may bring the vendor lock-in risk. To avoid this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

Serverless computing allows developers to break their code into small components, known as functions, which are automatically managed by a service provider. Being lightweight and modular, serverless functions have been increasingly employed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Luciano Baresi , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Inacio Ticongolo

Accurate network synchronization is a key enabler for services such as coherent transmission, cooperative decoding, and localization in distributed and cell-free networks. Unlike centralized networks, where synchronization is generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Dieter Verbruggen , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

Serverless computing, commonly offered as Function-as-a-Service, was initially designed for small, lean applications. However, there has been an increasing desire to run larger, more complex applications (what we call bulky applications) in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhiyuan Guo , Zachary Blanco , Junda Chen , Jinmou Li , Zerui Wei , Bili Dong , Ishaan Pota , Mohammad Shahrad , Harry Xu , Yiying Zhang

Cloud Computing holds the potential to eliminate the requirements for setting up of high-cost computing infrastructure for IT-based solutions and services that the industry uses. It promises to provide a flexible IT architecture, accessible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Rohit Bhadauria , Sugata Sanyal

Energy consumption represents a significant cost in data center operation. A large fraction of the energy, however, is used to power idle servers when the workload is low. Dynamic provisioning techniques aim at saving this portion of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Tan Lu , Minghua Chen

Serverless computing has become an important model in cloud computing and influenced the design of many applications. Here, we provide our perspective on how the recent landscape of serverless computing for scientific applications looks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Maciej Malawski , Bartosz Balis

Cloud service provider propose services to insensitive customers to use their platform. Different services can achieve the same result at different cost. In this paper, we study the efficiency of a serverless architecture for running highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Samuel Lavoie , Anthony Garant , Fabio Petrillo

With recent developments in cloud computing, a paradigm shift from rather static deployment of resources to more dynamic, on-demand practices means more flexibility and better utilization of resources. This demands new ways to efficiently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Trong Duong Quoc , Heiko Perkuhn , Daniel Catrein , Uwe Naumann , Toni Anwar

In Cloud computing environment the resources are managed dynamically based on the need and demand for resources for a particular task. With a lot of challenges to be addressed our concern is Load balancing where load balancing is done for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Shahrulniza Musa , Muhammad Alam , Mazliham Mohd Su'ud

WebAssembly has emerged as a lightweight and portable runtime to execute serverless functions, particularly in heterogeneous and resource-constrained environments such as the Edge Cloud Continuum. However, the performance benefits versus…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Cynthia Marcelino , Noah Krennmair , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic

Thanks to the latest advances in containerization, the serverless edge computing model is becoming close to reality. Serverless at the edge is expected to enable low latency applications with fast autoscaling mechanisms, all running on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Francisco Carpio , Marc Michalke , Admela Jukan

This paper analyzes the pricing of transit traffic in wireless peer-to-peer networks using the concepts of direct and indirect network externalities. We first establish that without any pricing mechanism, congestion externalities overwhelm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sam Chandan , Christiaan Hogendorn

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has raised a growing interest in how to "tame" serverless computing to enable domain-specific use cases such as data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML), to name a few. Recently, several systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Pablo Gimeno Sarroca , Marc Sánchez-Artigas

With the increasing demand for high-performance and high-efficiency computing, cloud computing, especially serverless computing, has gradually become a research hotspot in recent years, attracting numerous research attention. Meanwhile,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hanzhe Li , Bingchen Lin , Mengyuan Xu

Wireless sensor network (WSN) has been developed for decades and have performed well in the performance, power consumption, and congestion control. However, the following problems have not been addressed, such as inaccurate cost estimation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Tiannan Gao , Minxian Xu