Cliffhanger: An Experimental Evaluation of Stateful Serverless at the Edge
2024 (English)In: 2024 19th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference, WONS 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024, p. 41-48Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The serverless computing paradigm has transformed cloud service deployment by enabling automatic scaling of resources in response to varying demand. Building on this, stateful serverless computing introduces critical capabilities for data management, fault tolerance, and consistency, which are particularly relevant in the context of distributed deployments, notably in edge computing environments. In this work, we explore the feasibility of stateful serverless computing in resource-limited edge environments through an empirical study utilizing a multi-view object tracking application. Our results show that while these systems perform well in cloud environments, their effectiveness is severely affected at the edge due to state, application, and resource management solutions optimized for cloud environments. Existing solutions are most detrimental to applications with intermittent workloads, as typical combinations of concurrency handling and resource reservation can lead to minutes of unstable system behavior due to cold starts. Our results highlight the need for a tailored approach in stateful serverless systems for edge computing scenarios.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024. p. 41-48
Keywords [en]
Environmental management; Fault tolerance; Fog computing; Information management; Automatic scaling; Cloud environments; Cloud services; Computing environments; Computing paradigm; Distributed deployment; Edge computing; Empirical studies; Experimental evaluation; Service deployment; Edge computing
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-76344DOI: 10.23919/WONS60642.2024.10449637Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85187550320ISBN: 9783903176614 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-76344DiVA, id: diva2:1926631
Conference
19th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference, WONS 2024. Chamonix. 29 January 2024through 31 January 2024
Note
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for thisresearch provided by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Resilient Stateful Serverless Computing at the Edge),the Vinnova Center for Trustworthy Edge Computing Systemsand Applications (TECoSA), and the European Commissionthrough the Horizon Europe project SovereignEdge.Cognit(grant agreement 101092711).
2025-01-132025-01-132025-09-23Bibliographically approved