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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."