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A key challenge for supporting elastic behaviour in cloud systems is to achieve a good performance in automated (de-)provisioning and scheduling of computing resources. One of the key aspects that can be significant is the overheads…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Víctor Medel , Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz , José Ángel Bañares , Unai Arronategui , Omer F. Rana

WebAssembly has gained significant traction as a high-performance, secure, and portable compilation target for the Web and beyond. However, its growing adoption has also introduced new security challenges. One such threat is cryptojacking,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Håkon Harnes , Donn Morrison

Containerization is a virtualization technique that allows one to create and run executables consistently on any infrastructure. Compared to virtual machines, containers are lighter since they do not bundle a (guest) operating system but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Luciano Baresi , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Nicholas Rasi

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a next-generation portable compilation target for deploying applications written in high-level languages on the web. In order to protect their memory from untrusted code, web browser engines confine the execution of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Marco Vassena , Marco Patrignani

As the volume of data that needs to be processed continues to increase, we also see renewed interests in near-data processing in the form of computational storage, with eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) being proposed as a vehicle for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Wenjun Huang , Marcus Paradies

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format that enables portable, sandboxed, and near-native execution across heterogeneous platforms, making it well-suited for serverless workflow execution on browsers, edge nodes, and cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Mario Colosi , Reza Farahani , Lauri Loven , Radu Prodan , Massimo Villari

Containerization approaches based on namespaces offered by the Linux kernel have seen an increasing popularity in the HPC community both as a means to isolate applications and as a format to package and distribute them. However, their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mohak Chadha , Nils Krueger , Jophin John , Anshul Jindal , Michael Gerndt , Shajulin Benedict

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration. Unfortunately, its increasing popularity has also made it an attractive target for malicious actors. Despite extensive research on securing Kubernetes, little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Jacopo Bufalino , Jose Luis Martin-Navarro , Mario Di Francesco , Tuomas Aura

Container technologies, like Docker, are becoming increasingly popular. Containers provide exceptional developer experience because containers offer lightweight isolation and ease of software distribution. Containers are also widely used in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Pablo Chico de Guzman , Felipe Gorostiaga , Cesar Sanchez

WebAssembly (Wasm) has risen as a widely used technology to distribute computing workloads on different platforms. The platform independence offered through Wasm makes it an attractive solution for many different applications that can run…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Markus Berthilsson , Christian Gehrmann

The move towards the microservice based architecture is well underway. In this architectural style, small and loosely coupled modules are developed, deployed, and scaled independently to compose cloud-native applications. However, for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Leila Abdollahi Vayghan , Mohamed Aymen Saied , Maria Toeroe , Ferhat Khendek

The increasing heterogeneity of hardware and software in the Internet of Things (IoT) poses a major challenge for the portability, maintainability and deployment of software on devices with limited resources. WebAssembly (WASM), originally…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mislav Has , Tao Xiong , Fehmi Ben Abdesslem , Mario Kušek

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

Kubernetes is an open-source software for automating management of computerized services. Organizations, such as IBM, Capital One and Adidas use Kubernetes to deploy and manage their containers, and have reported benefits related to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Md. Shazibul Islam Shamim , Farzana Ahamed Bhuiyan , Akond Rahman

WebAssembly is a low-level bytecode language designed for client-side execution in web browsers. The need for decompilation techniques that recover high-level source code from WASM binaries has grown as WASM continues to gain widespread…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wei-Cheng Wu , Yutian Yan , Hallgrimur David Egilsson , David Park , Steven Chan , Christophe Hauser , Weihang Wang

Containers are standalone, self-contained units that package software and its dependencies together. They offer lightweight performance isolation, fast and flexible deployment, and fine-grained resource sharing. They have gained popularity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

WebAssemly is an emerging runtime for Web applications and has been supported in almost all browsers. Recently, WebAssembly is further regarded to be a the next-generation environment for blockchain applications, and has been adopted by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Shuyu Zheng , Haoyu Wang , Lei Wu , Gang Huang , Xuanzhe Liu

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a bytecode format originally serving as a compilation target for Web applications. It has recently been used increasingly on the server side, e.g., providing a safer, faster, and more portable alternative to Linux…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Shuyao Jiang , Ruiying Zeng , Zihao Rao , Jiazhen Gu , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

As JavaScript has been criticized for performance and security issues in web applications, WebAssembly (Wasm) was proposed in 2017 and is regarded as the complementation for JavaScript. Due to its advantages like compact-size, native-like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ningyu He , Shangtong Cao , Haoyu Wang , Yao Guo , Xiapu Luo

There is a clear difference in runtime performance between native applications that use augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) device-specific hardware and comparable web-based implementations. Here we show that WebAssembly (Wasm) offers a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Woo Jae Kim , Bohdan B. Khomtchouk