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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) allows to directly submit function code to a cloud provider without the burden of managing infrastructure resources. Each cloud provider establishes execution time limits to their FaaS offerings, which impose…

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The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to a new wave of edge computing due to the need to process data on the edge, closer to where it is being produced and attempting to move away from a cloud-centric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Hamza Javed , Adel N. Toosi , Mohammad S. Aslanpour

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

Automatic network management strategies have become paramount for meeting the needs of innovative real-time and data-intensive applications, such as in the Internet of Things. However, meeting the ever-growing and fluctuating demands for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Fatemeh Banaie , Karim Djemame , Abdulaziz Alhindi , Vasilios Kelefouras

Serverless computing has seen rapid adoption due to its high scalability and flexible, pay-as-you-go billing model. In serverless, developers structure their services as a collection of functions, sporadically invoked by various events like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dmitrii Ustiugov , Plamen Petrov , Marios Kogias , Edouard Bugnion , Boris Grot

Serverless architectures, particularly the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, have become a cornerstone of modern cloud computing due to their ability to simplify resource management and enhance application deployment agility. However, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Alexandre Savi Fayam Mbala Mouen , Jerry Lacmou Zeutouo , Vianney Kengne Tchendji

Multi-server queueing systems are widely used models for job scheduling in machine learning, wireless networks, crowdsourcing, and healthcare systems. This paper considers a multi-server system with multiple servers and multiple types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zixian Yang , R. Srikant , Lei Ying

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new database entries, or messages. Current FaaS platform assume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Niklas Kowallik , Joshua Adamek , Tobias Pfandzelter , Sergio Lucia , David Bermbach

Serverless computing provides fine-grain resource sharing between Cloud tenants through containers. Each function invocation (action) runs in an individual container. When there is not an already started container for a user function, a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Zijun Li , Quan Chen , Minyi Guo

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of the promise of lower cost and the convenience it provides to users who do not need to focus on server management. This has resulted in the availability of a number of proprietary and…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

The Serverless Computing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ease of use and fine-grained billing. These features make it appealing for stateful application or serverless workflow. However, current serverless workflow systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Xiaoxiang Shi , Chao Li , Zijun Li , Zihan Liu , Dianmo Sheng , Quan Chen , Jingwen Leng , Minyi Guo

The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francisco Carpio , Marc Michalke , Admela Jukan

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

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Along with the wide-adoption of Serverless Computing, more and more applications are developed and deployed on cloud platforms. Major cloud providers present their serverless workflow services to orchestrate serverless functions, making it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jinfeng Wen , Yi Liu

The serverless cloud computing model offers a framework where the service provider abstracts the underlying infrastructure management from developers. In this serverless model, FaaS provides an event-driven, function-oriented computing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

We present a framework for dynamic management of structured parallel processing skeletons on serverless platforms. Our goal is to bring HPC-like performance and resilience to serverless and continuum environments while preserving the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Lanpei Li , Massimo Coppola , Malio Li , Valerio Besozzi , Jack Bell , Vincenzo Lomonaco

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

We present a framework for performance optimization in serverless edge-cloud platforms using dynamic task placement. We focus on applications for smart edge devices, for example, smart cameras or speakers, that need to perform processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Anirban Das , Shigeru Imai , Mike P. Wittie , Stacy Patterson

The appeal of serverless (FaaS) has triggered a growing interest on how to use it in data-intensive applications such as ETL, query processing, or machine learning (ML). Several systems exist for training large-scale ML models on top of…

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