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20182026
most citedAuctionWhisk: Using an Auction-Inspired Approach for Function Placement in Serverless Fog Platforms

48 citations · 296 across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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50 papers

cs.NI2026

True 3D Holography: A Communication Service of Tomorrow and Its Requirements for a New Converged Cloud and Network Architecture on the Path to 6G

Ingo Friese, Mandy Galkow-Schneider, Louay Bassbouss +17

Research project 6G NeXt is considering true 3D holography as a use case, setting requirements on the communication as well as the computing infrastructure. In a future holographic…

cs.NI2026

6G NeXt - Towards 6G Split Computing Network Applications: Use Cases and Architecture

Sergiy Melnyk, Qiuheng Zhou, Hans D. Schotten +17

The definition of the sixth generation mobile communication is in the full swing. Mobile communication aims for the convergence of physical, human and digital world. Research proje…

cs.DC2026

New Kids: An Architecture and Performance Investigation of Second-Generation Serverless Platforms

Trever Schirmer, Aris Wiegand, Lucca di Benedetto +4

With the ever-increasing usage of serverless computing in both industry and academia, it is essential to understand the mechanisms that power the underlying platforms. As serverles…

cs.DC2026

Serverless Abstractions for Short-Running, Lightweight Streams

Natalie Carl, Niklas Kowallik, Constantin Stahl +3

Serverless computing and stream processing represent two dominant paradigms for event-driven data processing, yet both make assumptions that render them inefficient for short-runni…

cs.DC2025

Towards Energy-Efficient Serverless Computing with Hardware Isolation

Natalie Carl, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Serverless computing provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the ha…

cs.DC2025

Multi-Event Triggers for Serverless Computing

Natalie Carl, Trever Schirmer, Niklas Kowallik +4

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new d…

cs.DC2025

Minos: Exploiting Cloud Performance Variation with Function-as-a-Service Instance Selection

Trever Schirmer, Natalie Carl, Nils Höller +2

Serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud paradigm to quickly and cheaply implement complex applications. Because the function instances cloud providers start to e…

cs.DC2025★ 3 cited

Exploring Influence Factors on LLM Suitability for No-Code Development of End User IoT Applications

Minghe Wang, Alexandra Kapp, Trever Schirmer +2

No-Code Development Platforms (NCDPs) empower non-technical end users to build applications tailored to their specific demands without writing code. While NCDPs lower technical bar…

cs.DC2025

Trabant: A Serverless Architecture for Multi-Tenant Orbital Edge Computing

Tobias Pfandzelter, Nikita Bauer, Alexander Leis +5

Orbital edge computing reduces the data transmission needs of Earth observation satellites by processing sensor data on-board, allowing near-real-time insights while minimizing dow…

cs.DC2025

Umbilical Choir: Automated Live Testing for Edge-To-Cloud FaaS Applications

Mohammadreza Malekabbasi, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Application users react negatively to performance regressions or availability issues across software releases. To address this, modern cloud-based applications with their multiple…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

LLM4FaaS: No-Code Application Development using LLMs and FaaS

Minghe Wang, Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer +1

Large language models (LLMs) show great capabilities in generating code from natural language descriptions, bringing programming power closer to non-technical users. However, their…

cs.DC2024★ 16 cited

Komet: A Serverless Platform for Low-Earth Orbit Edge Services

Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Low-Earth orbit satellite networks can provide global broadband Internet access using constellations of thousands of satellites. Integrating edge computing resources in such networ…

cs.DC2024

Increasing Efficiency and Result Reliability of Continuous Benchmarking for FaaS Applications

Tim C. Rese, Nils Japke, Sebastian Koch +2

In a continuous deployment setting, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications frequently receive updated releases, each of which can cause a performance regression. While continuou…

cs.DC2024

GeoFaaS: An Edge-to-Cloud FaaS Platform

Mohammadreza Malekabbasi, Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer +1

The massive growth of mobile and IoT devices demands geographically distributed computing systems for optimal performance, privacy, and scalability. However, existing edge-to-cloud…

cs.DC2024

GeoFF: Federated Serverless Workflows with Data Pre-Fetching

Natalie Carl, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter +1

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud computing model in which applications are implemented as work flows of multiple independent functions. While cloud providers usually…

cs.DC2024

ElastiBench: Scalable Continuous Benchmarking on Cloud FaaS Platforms

Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Running microbenchmark suites often and early in the development process enables developers to identify performance issues in their application. Microbenchmark suites of complex ap…

cs.DC2024

Lessons Learned from Building Edge Software System Testbeds

Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Edge computing requires the complex software interaction of geo-distributed, heterogeneous components. The growing research and industry interest in edge computing software systems…

cs.LG2024★ 14 cited

FOOL: Addressing the Downlink Bottleneck in Satellite Computing with Neural Feature Compression

Alireza Furutanpey, Qiyang Zhang, Philipp Raith +3

Nanosatellite constellations equipped with sensors capturing large geographic regions provide unprecedented opportunities for Earth observation. As constellation sizes increase, ne…

cs.DC2024★ 8 cited

Are Unikernels Ready for Serverless on the Edge?

Felix Moebius, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a promising edge computing execution model but requires secure sandboxing mechanisms to isolate workloads from multiple tenants on constrained infra…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Application-Centric Benchmarking of Distributed FaaS Platforms using BeFaaS

Martin Grambow, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Due to the popularity of the FaaS programming model, there is now a wide variety of commercial and open-source FaaS systems. Hence, for comparison of different FaaS systems and the…

cs.DC2023★ 11 cited

Fusionize++: Improving Serverless Application Performance Using Dynamic Task Inlining and Infrastructure Optimization

Trever Schirmer, Joel Scheuner, Tobias Pfandzelter +1

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution model increases developer productivity by removing operational concerns such as managing hardware or software runtimes. Developers, howev…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Supporting UAVs with Edge Computing: A Review of Opportunities and Challenges

Malte Janßen, Tobias Pfandzelter, Minghe Wang +1

Over the last years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen significant advancements in sensor capabilities and computational abilities, allowing for efficient autonomous naviga…

cs.DC2023★ 12 cited

Enoki: Stateful Distributed FaaS from Edge to Cloud

Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a promising paradigm for applications distributed across the edge-cloud continuum. FaaS functions are stateless by nature, leading to high elasticit…

cs.DC2023★ 6 cited

ProFaaStinate: Delaying Serverless Function Calls to Optimize Platform Performance

Trever Schirmer, Natalie Carl, Tobias Pfandzelter +1

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) enables developers to run serverless applications without managing operational tasks. In current FaaS platforms, both synchronous and asynchronous call…