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+venue: Middleware
+year: 2025
+papers:
+- title: 'Recipe: Hardware-Accelerated Replication Protocols: Rethinking Crash Fault
+    Tolerance Protocols for Untrusted Cloud Environments'
+  authors:
+  - Dimitra Giantsidi
+  - Emmanouil Giortamis
+  - Julian Pritzi
+  - Maurice Bailleu
+  - Manos Kapritsos
+  - Pramod Bhatotia
+  reason: "Redesigns crash fault-tolerance protocols using hardware acceleration (TEEs/SmartNICs) to deliver replication with strong guarantees in untrusted cloud environments."
+- title: Efficient Performance Guarantees for Function-as-a-Service with Cloud Allocators
+  authors:
+  - Hai Duc Nguyen 0005
+  - Andrew A. Chien
+  reason: "Introduces cloud-allocator abstractions that provide formal performance guarantees for serverless functions, addressing the unpredictability of shared FaaS infrastructure."
+- title: 'Capybara: an Edge-Friendly Distributed Object Store for Diverse Serverless
+    Functions'
+  authors:
+  - Xin Chen 0084
+  - Manoj Prabhakar Paidiparthy
+  - Chen Qian 0001
+  - Liting Hu
+  reason: "Proposes a distributed object store purpose-built for edge serverless workloads, enabling diverse function runtimes to share state efficiently at the edge."
+- title: 'EdgeConnector: Enabling Seamless and Efficient Cross-Cluster Device Access
+    in Edge Environment'
+  authors:
+  - Yunna Cui
+  - Liwei Shen
+  - Bingkun Sun
+  - Wente Lu
+  - Haojie Zhang
+  - Xin Peng 0001
+  reason: "Presents a middleware layer that transparently bridges device access across Kubernetes clusters in heterogeneous edge deployments."
+- title: 'FaaSImage: An Efficient Image Manager for FaaS'
+  authors:
+  - Abhisek Panda
+  - Smruti R. Sarangi
+  reason: "Tackles cold-start latency in production FaaS platforms by redesigning container image management with fine-grained layer sharing and prefetching."
+- title: 'Roadrunner: Accelerating Data Delivery to WebAssembly-Based Serverless Functions'
+  authors:
+  - Cynthia Marcelino
+  - Thomas W. Pusztai
+  - Stefan Nastic
+  reason: "Designs a high-throughput data-plane runtime that removes I/O bottlenecks for Wasm serverless functions through zero-copy data paths."
+- title: 'Mocha: Scalable and Compliant Function Scheduling for Federated Serverless
+    Computing'
+  authors:
+  - Yuqiu Zhang
+  - Hans-Arno Jacobsen
+  reason: "Introduces a scheduler for federated serverless environments that satisfies data-residency and compliance constraints while maintaining high resource utilization."
+- title: A Hybrid Runtime for Function-as-a-Service at the Edge
+  authors:
+  - Adam Hall
+  - Umakishore Ramachandran
+  reason: "Combines container and unikernel execution models in a single FaaS runtime to balance isolation, startup latency, and resource efficiency at edge nodes."
+- title: 'Tiaccoon: Unified Access Control with Multiple Transports in Container Networks'
+  authors:
+  - Hiroya Onoe
+  - Daisuke Kotani
+  - Yasuo Okabe
+  reason: "Provides a service-mesh-style unified access-control plane that works across heterogeneous transport protocols within container network environments."
+- title: 'MiAR-BFT: Efficient Leaderless Consensus Based on Multi-instance Asynchronous
+    Running for Blockchain'
+  authors:
+  - Zhenyu Zhang
+  - Xing Tong
+  - Zhao Zhang 0009
+  - Cheqing Jin
+  reason: "Proposes a leaderless BFT consensus protocol that runs multiple instances concurrently to improve throughput and reduce latency in blockchain middleware."
+- title: 'ER-π: Exhaustive Interleaving Replay for Testing Replicated Data Library
+    Integration'
+  authors:
+  - Provakar Mondal
+  - Eli Tilevich
+  reason: "Systematically explores all message interleavings when testing replicated data libraries, surfacing integration bugs that random testing misses in distributed coordination code."
+- title: 'Adjusted Objects: An Efficient and Principled Approach to Scalable Programming'
+  authors:
+  - Boubacar Kane
+  - Pierre Sutra
+  reason: "Introduces adjusted objects as a programming abstraction that reconciles strong consistency with scalability, offering a practical alternative to CRDTs for distributed middleware."