From cloud to edge: a first look at public edge platforms

M Xu, Z Fu, X Ma, L Zhang, Y Li, F Qian… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Public edge platforms have drawn increasing attention from both academia and industry. In
this study, we perform a first-of-its-kind measurement study on a leading public edge …

Cost-effective cloud edge traffic engineering with cascara

R Singh, S Agarwal, M Calder, P Bahl - 18th USENIX Symposium on …, 2021 - usenix.org
Inter-domain bandwidth costs comprise a significant amount of the operating expenditure of
cloud providers. Traffic engineering systems at the cloud edge must strike a fine balance …

Adaptive QoS-aware microservice deployment with excessive loads via intra-and inter-datacenter scheduling

J Shi, K Fu, J Wang, Q Chen, D Zeng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
User-facing applications often experience excessive loads and are shifting towards the
microservice architecture. To fully utilize heterogeneous resources, current datacenters have …

Contracting wide-area network topologies to solve flow problems quickly

F Abuzaid, S Kandula, B Arzani, I Menache… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2021 - usenix.org
Many enterprises today manage traffic on their wide-area networks using software-defined
traffic engineering schemes, which scale poorly with network size; the solver runtimes and …

RAS: continuously optimized region-wide datacenter resource allocation

A Newell, D Skarlatos, J Fan, P Kumar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Capacity reservation is a common offering in public clouds and on-premise infrastructure.
However, no prior work provides capacity reservation with SLO guarantees that takes into …

Optimizing resource allocation in hyperscale datacenters: Scalability, usability, and experiences

N Kumar, PM Ruiz, V Menon, I Kabiljo… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Meta's private cloud uses millions of servers to host tens of thousands of services that power
multiple products for billions of users. This complex environment has various optimization …

Characterizing and orchestrating VM reservation in geo-distributed clouds to improve the resource efficiency

J Shi, K Fu, Q Chen, C Yang, P Huang, M Zhou… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Cloud providers often build a geo-distributed cloud from multiple datacenters in different
geographic regions, to serve tenants at different locations. The tenants that run large scale …

Characterization and analysis of cloud-to-user latency: The case of Azure and AWS

F Palumbo, G Aceto, A Botta, D Ciuonzo, V Persico… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
With the growing adoption of cloud infrastructures to deliver a variety of IT services,
monitoring cloud network performance has become crucial. However, cloud providers only …

Energy-efficient service placement for latency-sensitive applications in edge computing

G Premsankar, B Ghaddar - IEEE internet of things journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing is a promising solution to host artificial intelligence (AI) applications that
enable real-time insights on user-generated and device-generated data. This requires edge …

Topaz: Declarative and Verifiable Authoritative DNS at CDN-Scale

J Larisch, TA Thijm, S Ahmad, P Wu, T Arnfeld… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Today, when a CDN nameserver receives a DNS query for a customer's domain, it decides
which CDN IP to return based on servicelevel objectives such as managing load or …