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title: TCC 2024 Digest
venue: TCC
year: 2024
date: '2024-01-01'
tags: []
paper_count: 12
draft: false
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12 papers selected.
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### FaaSCtrl: A Comprehensive-Latency Controller for Serverless Platforms
*Abhisek Panda, Smruti R. Sarangi*
**TL;DR** — FaaSCtrl is a feedback-control system for serverless platforms that jointly manages cold-start, queuing, and execution latency to meet end-to-end SLOs.
**Why notable** — One of the few serverless controllers that addresses all three latency components together, providing a principled alternative to ad-hoc autoscaling heuristics.
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### FUSIONIZE++: Improving Serverless Application Performance Using Dynamic Task Inlining and Infrastructure Optimization
*Trever Schirmer, Joel Scheuner, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach*
**TL;DR** — FUSIONIZE++ dynamically fuses serverless functions at runtime and co-optimizes infrastructure selection to cut invocation overhead and cost.
**Why notable** — Demonstrates concrete end-to-end performance gains from function fusion in real serverless deployments, directly relevant to practitioners optimizing FaaS pipelines.
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### BaaSLess: Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS)-Enabled Workflows in Federated Serverless Infrastructures
*Thomas Larcher, Philipp Gritsch, Stefan Nastic, Sashko Ristov*
**TL;DR** — BaaSLess integrates BaaS capabilities into serverless workflow execution across federated multi-provider infrastructures, enabling stateful cross-cloud function orchestration.
**Why notable** — Addresses the underexplored intersection of BaaS, serverless, and federation, offering a practical blueprint for multi-cloud serverless applications.
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### Slim and Fast: Low-Overhead Container Overlay Network With Fast Connection Setup
*Fusheng Lin, Xin Zhang 0117, Guo Chen 0001, Li Chen 0008 *et al.**
**TL;DR** — A redesigned container overlay network that minimizes control-plane overhead and dramatically reduces connection setup latency for microservice-dense deployments.
**Why notable** — The implementation targets real Kubernetes environments and directly improves east-west latency for microservices at scale.
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### Trustless Collaborative Cloud Federation
*Bishakh Chandra Ghosh, Sandip Chakraborty 0001*
**TL;DR** — A blockchain-backed protocol that enables resource sharing across competing cloud providers without requiring a trusted third party.
**Why notable** — Tackles the fundamental trust barrier in multi-cloud federation with a practical, decentralized design that avoids provider lock-in.
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### An Adaptive Cloud Resource Quota Scheme Based on Dynamic Portraits and Task-Resource Matching
*Zuodong Jin, Dan Tao, Peng Qi 0006, Ruipeng Gao*
**TL;DR** — Builds dynamic workload portraits per tenant and matches them to resource quotas in real time, improving utilization while respecting SLAs in IaaS/PaaS clouds.
**Why notable** — Moves beyond static quota assignment with a data-driven approach validated on production cloud workload traces.
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### Aggregate Monitoring for Geo-Distributed Kubernetes Cluster Federations
*Chih-Kai Huang 0001, Guillaume Pierre*
**TL;DR** — Proposes a scalable monitoring architecture for Kubernetes federations that aggregates metrics across geo-distributed clusters with low overhead.
**Why notable** — Practical multi-cloud observability is rarely addressed at the federation layer; this work provides a deployable solution with measured performance on real clusters.
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### Root Cause Analysis for Cloud-Native Applications
*Bartosz Zurkowski, Krzysztof Zielinski*
**TL;DR** — A graph-based RCA framework for microservice architectures that correlates traces, metrics, and logs to pinpoint fault origins in cloud-native deployments.
**Why notable** — Directly applicable to production microservice operations, offering automated diagnosis that reduces mean time to recovery in complex service graphs.
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### RAM: A Resource-Aware DDoS Attack Mitigation Framework in Clouds
*Fangyuan Xing, Fei Tong 0001, Jialong Yang, Guang Cheng 0001 *et al.**
**TL;DR** — RAM dynamically allocates cloud resources for DDoS mitigation based on attack intensity, balancing protection effectiveness against resource cost.
**Why notable** — Combines attack detection and elastic resource provisioning in a single framework, making it immediately relevant for cloud security operations.
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### Enabling Multi-Layer Threat Analysis in Dynamic Cloud Environments
*Salman Manzoor, Antonios Gouglidis, Matthew Bradbury, Neeraj Suri*
**TL;DR** — A multi-layer threat analysis system that correlates security events across IaaS, PaaS, and application layers to detect composite attacks in dynamic cloud deployments.
**Why notable** — Addresses the gap between per-layer security tools and cross-layer attack detection, which is critical for securing modern cloud stacks.
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### Hyperion: Hardware-Based High-Performance and Secure System for Container Networks
*Myoungsung You, Minjae Seo, Jaehan Kim, Seungwon Shin 0001 *et al.**
**TL;DR** — Hyperion offloads container network security enforcement to programmable hardware, achieving line-rate packet processing with strong isolation guarantees.
**Why notable** — Shows that hardware offload can simultaneously improve both throughput and security in container networking, with real implementation results.
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### D-STACK: High Throughput DNN Inference by Effective Multiplexing and Spatio-Temporal Scheduling of GPUs
*Aditya Dhakal, Sameer G. Kulkarni, K. K. Ramakrishnan*
**TL;DR** — D-STACK multiplexes multiple DNN inference jobs on shared GPUs via spatio-temporal scheduling, significantly increasing throughput without latency SLO violations.
**Why notable** — Addresses a critical cloud resource management challenge for AI inference services, with a real system implementation and evaluation against production workloads.