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most citedA Decentralized Framework for Serverless Edge Computing in the Internet of Things

105 citations · 196 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.NI2025★ 22 cited

Uncoordinated Access to Serverless Computing in MEC Systems for IoT

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

Edge computing is a promising solution to enable low-latency IoT applications, by shifting computation from remote data centers to local devices, less powerful but closer to the en…

cs.NI2024

Energy-Efficient Deployment of Stateful FaaS Vertical Applications on Edge Data Networks

Claudio Cicconetti, Raffaele Bruno, Andrea Passarella

5G and beyond support the deployment of vertical applications, which is particularly appealing in combination with network slicing and edge computing to create a logically isolated…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Routing in Quantum Repeater Networks with Mixed Efficiency Figures

Vinay Kumar, Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti +1

This study explores an approach to routing in quantum networks, which targets practical scenarios for quantum networks, mirroring real-world classical networks. By addressing pract…

cs.NI2023★ 9 cited

Measurement-Driven Design and Runtime Optimization in Edge Computing: Methodology and Tools

Chiara Caiazza, Claudio Cicconetti, Valerio Luconi +1

Edge computing is projected to become the dominant form of cloud computing in the future because of the significant advantages it brings to both users (less latency, higher through…

quant-ph2023

Qkd@Edge: Online Admission Control of Edge Applications with QKD-secured Communications

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables secure communications via the exchange of cryptographic keys exploiting the properties of quantum mechanics. Nowadays the related technology…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Service Differentiation and Fair Sharing in Distributed Quantum Computing

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

In the future, quantum computers will become widespread and a network of quantum repeaters will provide them with end-to-end entanglement of remote quantum bits. As a result, a per…

cs.NI2022★ 9 cited

In-Network Computing With Function as a Service at the Edge

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

Offloading computation from user devices to nodes with processing capabilities at the edge of the network is a major trend in today's network/service architectures. At the same tim…

cs.NI2022★ 3 cited

Design Guidelines for Apache Kafka Driven Data Management and Distribution in Smart Cities

Theofanis P. Raptis, Claudio Cicconetti, Manolis Falelakis +2

Smart city management is going through a remarkable transition, in terms of quality and diversity of services provided to the end-users. The stakeholders that deliver pervasive app…

quant-ph2022

Quality of Service in Quantum Networks

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

In the coming years, quantum networks will allow quantum applications to thrive thanks to the new opportunities offered by end-to-end entanglement of qubits on remote hosts via qua…

cs.NI2022★ 6 cited

Stateless or stateful FaaS? I'll take both!

Carlo Puliafito, Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti +2

Serverless computing has emerged as a very popular cloud technology, together with its companion Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model enabling invocations of stateless fu…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks for Distributed Quantum Computing

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

The evolution of quantum computing technologies has been advancing at a steady pace in the recent years, and the current trend suggests that it will become available at scale for c…

cs.NI2021

FaaS Execution Models for Edge Applications

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

In this paper, we address the problem of supporting stateful workflows following a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model in edge networks. In particular we focus on the problem of dat…

cs.NI2021★ 105 cited

A Decentralized Framework for Serverless Edge Computing in the Internet of Things

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

Serverless computing is becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers rea…

cs.DC2021★ 27 cited

Architecture and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Computation Offloading in Edge Computing

Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to…

cs.NI2021★ 9 cited

Stateful Function-as-a-Service at the Edge

Carlo Puliafito, Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti +2

In FaaS, users invoke remote functions, which encapsulate service(s). These functions typically need to remotely access a persistent state via external services: this makes the par…