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The rapid emergence of edge computing platforms and large-scale data centers has made power efficiency a primary design constraint, particularly for data-intensive and AI-driven workloads. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Akram Ben Ahmed , Takahiro Hirofuchi , Takaaki Fukai

This paper introduces a fully free and open source software (FOSS) architecture-neutral FPGA framework comprising of Yosys for Verilog synthesis, and nextpnr for placement, routing, and bitstream generation. Currently, this flow supports…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 David Shah , Eddie Hung , Clifford Wolf , Serge Bazanski , Dan Gisselquist , Miodrag Milanović

Resource management is the principal factor to fully utilize the potential of Edge/Fog computing to execute real-time and critical IoT applications. Although some resource management frameworks exist, the majority are not designed based on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Zhiyu Wang , Mohammad Goudarzi , Jagannath Aryal , Rajkumar Buyya

Convolutional neural network (CNN) dataflow inference accelerators implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have demonstrated increased energy efficiency and lower latency compared to CNN execution on CPUs or GPUs. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mairin Kroes , Lucian Petrica , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott

Recent studies show the increasing popularity of distributed cloud applications, which are composed of multiple microservices. Besides their known benefits, microservice architecture also enables to mix and match cloud applications and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei , Holger Karl

Edge computing seeks to enable applications with strict latency requirements by utilizing compute resources deployed closer to the users. The diverse, dynamic, and constrained nature of edge infrastructures necessitates a flexible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Giovanni Bartolomeo , Mehdi Yosofie , Simon Bäurle , Oliver Haluszczynski , Nitinder Mohan , Jörg Ott

Cloud applications are increasingly relying on hundreds of loosely-coupled microservices to complete user requests that meet an applications end-to-end QoS requirements. Communication time between services accounts for a large fraction of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Nikita Lazarev , Neil Adit , Shaojie Xiang , Zhiru Zhang , Christina Delimitrou

Virtualization, either at OS- or hardware level, plays an important role in cloud computing. It enables easier automation and faster deployment in distributed environments. While virtualized infrastructures provide a level of management…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Mina Sedaghat , Pontus Sköldström , Daniel Turull , Vinay Yadhav , Joacim Halén , Madhubala Ganesan , Amardeep Mehta , Wolfgang John

The ongoing shift of cloud services from monolithic designs to microservices creates high demand for efficient and high performance datacenter networking stacks, optimized for fine-grained workloads. Commodity networking systems based on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Nikita Lazarev , Shaojie Xiang , Neil Adit , Zhiru Zhang , Christina Delimitrou

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao

Modern physics experiments often utilize FPGA-based systems for real-time data acquisition. Integrated analog electronics demand for complex calibration routines. Furthermore, versatile configuration and control of the whole system is a key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Nick Karcher , Richard Gebauer , Robin Bauknecht , Rainer Illichmann , Oliver Sander

We present FunLess, a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform tailored for the private edge cloud system. FunLess responds to recent trends that advocate for extending the coverage of serverless computing to private edge cloud systems and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

FPGAs have found their way into data centers as accelerator cards, making reconfigurable computing more accessible for high-performance applications. At the same time, new high-level synthesis compilers like Xilinx Vitis and runtime…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Puya Amiri , Arsène Pérard-Gayot , Richard Membarth , Philipp Slusallek , Roland Leißa , Sebastian Hack

The advent of computationally demanding algorithms and high data rate instruments in new space applications pushes the space industry to explore disruptive solutions for on-board data processing. We examine heterogeneous computing…

We propose Flock; a simple and scalable protocol that enables live migration of Virtual Machines (VMs) across heterogeneous edge and conventional cloud platforms to improve the responsiveness of cloud services. Flock is designed with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Sherif Abdelwahab , Bechir Hamdaoui

Quantum cloud computing enables remote access to quantum processors, yet the heterogeneity and noise of available quantum hardware create significant challenges for efficient resource orchestration. These issues complicate the optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hoa T. Nguyen , Muhammad Usman , Rajkumar Buyya

Designing and optimizing FPGA overlays is a complex and time-consuming process, often requiring multiple trial-and-error iterations to determine a suitable configuration. This paper presents an AI-driven approach to optimizing FPGA overlay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Rasha Karakchi

Federated Learning (FL) has become very popular since it enables clients to train a joint model collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to backdoor and inference attacks. While in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Huimin Li , Phillip Rieger , Shaza Zeitouni , Stjepan Picek , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a major impact on our society because of the numerous services they provide. On the other hand, they require considerable computing power. To satisfy these requirements, it is possible to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alireza Ghaffari , Yvon Savaria

This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advances in deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object detection, classification, and tracking on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With the increasing demand for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed