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Microservice architecture is the common choice for developing cloud applications these days since each individual microservice can be independently modified, replaced, and scaled. As a result, application development and operating cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mohak Chadha , Victor Pacyna , Anshul Jindal , Jianfeng Gu , Michael Gerndt

The immense technological progress in artificial intelligence research and applications is increasingly drawing attention to the environmental sustainability of such systems, a field that has been termed Green AI. With this contribution we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Christian Clemm , Lutz Stobbe , Kishan Wimalawarne , Jan Druschke

This paper presents a theoretical discussion for environmentally-conscious job deployment and migration in cloud environments, aiming to minimize the environmental impact of resource provisioning while incorporating sustainability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Giulio Attenni , Novella Bartolini

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

End-users can get functions-as-a-service from serverless platforms, which promise lower hosting costs, high availability, fault tolerance, and dynamic flexibility for hosting individual functions known as microservices. Machine learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Prerana Khatiwada , Pranjal Dhakal

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a significant climate impact, and data centres account for a large proportion of the carbon emissions from ICT. To achieve sustainability goals, it is important that all parties involved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jessica Man , Sadiq Jaffer , Patrick Ferris , Martin Kleppmann , Anil Madhavapeddy

Serverless computing is a new cloud service model that reduces both cloud providers' and consumers' costs through extremely agile development, operation, and charging mechanisms and has been widely applied since its emergence. Nevertheless,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Xing Li , Xue Leng , Yan Chen

Given recent algorithm, software, and hardware innovation, computing has enabled a plethora of new applications. As computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, however, so does its environmental impact. This paper brings the issue to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Udit Gupta , Young Geun Kim , Sylvia Lee , Jordan Tse , Hsien-Hsin S. Lee , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Carole-Jean Wu

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

Datacenter capacity is growing exponentially to satisfy the increasing demand for emerging computationally-intensive applications, such as deep learning. This trend has led to concerns over datacenters' increasing energy consumption and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoding Guan , Noman Bashir , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy

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 computing abstracts away server management, enabling automatic scaling, efficient resource utilization, and cost-effective pricing models. However, despite these advantages, it faces the significant challenge of cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Ali Al Zein , Soumya Sripad Vaidya , Arati Khanolkar , Zheng Song , Probir Roy

Motivated by an imperative to reduce the carbon emissions of cloud data centers, this paper studies the online carbon-aware resource scaling problem with unknown job lengths (OCSU) and applies it to carbon-aware resource scaling for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Roozbeh Bostandoost , Adam Lechowicz , Walid A. Hanafy , Noman Bashir , Prashant Shenoy , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

Progressing toward a new generation of mobile networks, a clear focus on integrating distributed intelligence across the system is observed to drive performance, autonomy, and real-time adaptability. Federated learning (FL) stands out as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Theodora Panagea , Nikolaos Koursioumpas , Lina Magoula , Ramin Khalili

There is a growing interest in serverless compute, a cloud computing model that automates infrastructure resource-allocation and management while billing customers only for the resources they use. Workloads like stream processing benefit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Sean Choi , Muhammad Shahbaz , Balaji Prabhakar , Mendel Rosenblum

The advent of serverless computing has revolutionized the landscape of cloud computing, offering a new paradigm that enables developers to focus solely on their applications rather than managing and provisioning the underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Muhammad Hamza , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Rafael Capilla

Serverless Computing is a virtualisation-related paradigm that promises to simplify application management and to solve the last challenges in the field: scale down and easy to use. The implied cost reduction, coupled with a simplified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Eduard Marin , Diego Perino , Roberto Di Pietro

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 rising energy footprint of artificial intelligence has become a measurable component of US data center emissions, yet cybersecurity research seldom considers its environmental cost. This study introduces an eco aware anomaly detection…

Machine learning solutions are rapidly adopted to enable a variety of key use cases, from conversational AI assistants to scientific discovery. This growing adoption is expected to increase the associated lifecycle carbon footprint,…