S. Dustdar

This paper benchmarks the performance trade-offs among fully onboard, cloud-based, and split-computing architectures for lightweight VLMs using SmolVLM-256M as a representative lightweight VLM and shows that no deployment strategy is universally optimal.

Adaptive Score-based Routing Balancer is introduced, a dynamic, score-based request routing mechanism for Kubernetes-based service deployments over the computing continuum that jointly considers infrastructure-level information, response time measurements, and application-level quality indicators, with a particular focus on serving Machine Learning workloads.

This article categorizes existing UAV inspection architectures, identifies their key system challenges and architectural requirements, and experimentally assesses the feasibility of semantic edge intelligence on NVIDIA Jetson UAV-class hardware using the COCO-Bridge dataset.

Certified caching can boost edge image classification speed by 1.65x without compromising reliability.

A structured taxonomy reveals that traditional performance metrics fail to capture the complexities of modern distributed computing environments, potentially hindering system optimization.

Controller performance in edge clusters can swing dramatically based on workload intensity, with a deep reinforcement-learning approach losing to a simple heuristic by 29 percentage points under heavy load.

Forget incentive compatibility, can you even trust the marketplace operator?

ClusterLess slashes workflow completion times by up to 40% and nearly doubles deadline satisfaction in federated edge environments, outperforming existing methods.

Serverless orchestration falls apart when you move it to space, but this paper proposes a new architecture to fix it.

Pricings, inspired by SaaS subscription models, offer a surprisingly effective and generalizable way to represent and optimize resource allocation in complex computing environments.

Watch an agent learn to juggle the knobs of multiple stream processing services to meet latency goals in a resource-constrained edge environment.