The microservice architecture is a popular software engineering approach for building
flexible, large-scale online services. Serverless functions, or function as a service (FaaS) …

Containers are widely used for resource management in datacenters. A common practice to
support deep learning (DL) training in container clouds is to statically bind GPUs to …

Communication intensive applications in hosts with multi-core CPU and high speed
networking hardware often put considerable stress on the native socket system in an OS …

In this work, we conduct a security analysis of container networks, identifying a number of
concerns that arise from the exposure of unnecessary network operations by containerized …

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a widely used abstraction for cloud computing. The
programmer specifies type information for each remote procedure, and a compiler generates …

RDMA communication in virtual private cloud (VPC) networks is still a challenging job due to
the difficulty in fulfilling all virtualization requirements without sacrificing RDMA …

Container overlay network, though being widely adopted to enable communication between
containers on different hosts, is a key downside for latency-sensitive applications. The state …

During the past few years, serverless computing has changed the paradigm of application
development and deployment in the cloud and edge due to its unique advantages, including …

The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought profound changes in the
cloud computing paradigm. One promising computing model in IoT-related applications is …

Containers are prevalently adopted due to the deployment and performance advantages
over virtual machines. For many containerized data-intensive applications, however, bulky …