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One key to enabling high-performance serverless computing is to mitigate cold-starts. Current solutions utilize a warm pool to keep function alive: a warm-start can be analogous to a CPU cache-hit. However, modern cache has multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Chu Qiao , Cong Wang , Zhenkai Zhang , Yuede Ji , Xing Gao

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi

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

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

Serverless computing has gained a significant traction in recent times because of its simplicity of development, deployment and fine-grained billing. However, while implementing complex services comprising databases, file stores, or more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Bishakh Chandra Ghosh , Sourav Kanti Addya , Nishant Baranwal Somy , Shubha Brata Nath , Sandip Chakraborty , Soumya K Ghosh

Operating a modern power grid reliably in case of SCADA/EMS failure or amid difficult times like COVID-19 pandemic is a challenging task for grid operators. In [11], a PMU-based emergency generation dispatch scheme has been proposed to help…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-03 Song Zhang , Xiaochuan Luo , Eugene Litvinov

Serverless computing has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

In recent years, serverless computing, especially Function as a Service (FaaS), is rapidly growing in popularity as a cloud programming model. The serverless computing model provides an intuitive interface for developing cloud-based…

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

Deterministic databases enable scalable replicated systems by executing transactions in a predetermined order. However, existing designs fail to capture transaction dependencies, leading to insufficient scheduling, high abort rates, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junfang Huang , Yu Yan , Hongzhi Wang , Yingze Li , Jinghan Lin

Serverless computing simplifies cloud deployment but introduces new challenges in managing service latency and carbon emissions. Reducing cold-start latency requires retaining warm function instances, while minimizing carbon emissions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Bowen Sun , Christos D. Antonopoulos , Evgenia Smirni , Bin Ren , Nikolaos Bellas , Spyros Lalis

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 has become a new trending paradigm in cloud computing, allowing developers to focus on the development of core application logic and rapidly construct the prototype via the composition of independent functions. With the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinfeng Wen , Yi Liu , Zhenpeng Chen , Junkai Chen , Yun Ma

This paper explores resource allocation in serverless cloud computing platforms and proposes an optimization approach for autoscaling systems. Serverless computing relieves users from resource management tasks, enabling focus on application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Harold Ship , Evgeny Shindin , Chen Wang , Diana Arroyo , Asser Tantawi

In cloud computing management, the dynamic adaptation of computing resource allocations under time-varying workload is an active domain of investigation. Several control strategies were already proposed. Here the model-free control setting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Maria Bekcheva , Michel Fliess , Cédric Join , Alireza Moradi , Hugues Mounier

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

Machine Learning models are often composed of pipelines of transformations. While this design allows to efficiently execute single model components at training time, prediction serving has different requirements such as low latency, high…

In this paper, we study a problem of controlling cooling facilities and computational equipments for energy-efficient operations of data centers. Although a plethora of approaches have been proposed in previous literatures, there is a lack…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Masaki Ogura , Jianxiong Wan , Shoji Kasahara

Serverless computing promises fine-grained elasticity and operational simplicity, fueling widespread interest from both industry and academia. Yet this promise is undercut by the cold setart problem, where invoking a function after a period…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ben Holmes , Baltasar Dinis , Lana Honcharuk , Joshua Fried , Adam Belay

Serverless computing is an approach to cloud computing that allows programmers to run serverless functions in response to external events. Serverless functions are priced at sub-second granularity, support transparent elasticity, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Emily Herbert , Arjun Guha

Recently, serverless computing has gained recognition as a leading cloud computing method. Providing a solution that does not require direct server and infrastructure management, this technology has addressed many traditional model problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mohsen Ghorbian , Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani