Cold start latency in serverless computing: A systematic review, taxonomy, and future directions

M Golec, GK Walia, M Kumar, F Cuadrado… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recently, academics and the corporate sector have paid attention to serverless computing,
which enables dynamic scalability and an economic model. In serverless computing, users …

Asynchronous federated reinforcement learning with policy gradient updates: Algorithm design and convergence analysis

G Lan, DJ Han, A Hashemi, V Aggarwal… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
To improve the efficiency of reinforcement learning (RL), we propose a novel asynchronous
federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) framework termed AFedPG, which constructs a …

Fluid-shuttle: Efficient cloud data transmission based on serverless computing compression

R Gu, S Wang, H Dai, X Chen, Z Wang… - IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, there exists a lot of cross-region data transmission demand on the cloud. It is
promising to use serverless computing for data compressing to save the total data size …

En4S: Enabling SLOs in Serverless Storage Systems

M **e, C Qian, H Litz - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing promises scalability and cost-efficiency by decomposing monolithic
tasks into small, stateless, self-contained functions. As functions only reserve hardware …

Efficiency in the serverless cloud paradigm: A survey on the reusing and approximation aspects

C Denninnart, T Chanikaphon… - Software: Practice and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Serverless computing along with Function‐as‐a‐Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing
paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of …

λFS: A Scalable and Elastic Distributed File System Metadata Service using Serverless Functions

B Carver, R Han, J Zhang, M Zheng… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The metadata service (MDS) sits on the critical path for distributed file system (DFS)
operations, and therefore it is key to the overall performance of a large-scale DFS. Common" …

Enabling scalable and adaptive machine learning training via serverless computing on public cloud

A Ali, X Ma, S Zawad, P Aditya, IE Akkus, R Chen… - Performance …, 2025 - Elsevier
In today's production machine learning (ML) systems, models are continuously trained,
improved, and deployed. ML design and training are becoming a continuous workflow of …

FaaSKeeper: Learning from Building Serverless Services with ZooKeeper as an Example

M Copik, A Calotoiu, P Zhou, K Taranov… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) revolutionized cloud computing by replacing persistent virtual
machines with dynamically allocated resources. This shift trades locality and statefulness for …

{MinFlow}: High-performance and Cost-efficient Data Passing for {I/O-intensive} Stateful Serverless Analytics

T Li, Y Li, W Zhu, Y Xu, JCS Lui - 22nd USENIX Conference on File and …, 2024 - usenix.org
Serverless computing has revolutionized application deployment, obviating traditional
infrastructure management and dynamically allocating resources on demand. A significant …

[PDF][PDF] Sion: Elastic serverless cloud storage

J Zhang, A Wang, X Ma, B Carver, N Newman… - … Conference on Very …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
Cloud object storage such as AWS S3 is cost-effective and highly elastic but relatively slow,
while high-performance cloud storage such as AWS ElastiCache is expensive and provides …