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."