The ubiquitous deployment of mobile and sensor devices is creating a new environment,
namely the Internet of Things(IoT), that enables a wide range of future Internet applications. In …

Geo-distributed Situation Awareness applications are large in scale and are characterized
by 24/7 data generation from mobile and stationary sensors (such as cameras and GPS …

Serverless computing platforms allow developers to host single-purpose applications that
automatically scale with demand. In contrast to traditional long-running applications on …

The diversity of Fog Computing deployment models and the lack of publicly available Fog
infrastructure makes the design of an efficient application or resource management policy a …

A recent trend in communication networks --- sometimes referred to as fog computing ---
offers to execute computational tasks close to the access points of the networks. This enables …

The authors discuss a paradigm for structuring distributed operating systems, the potential
and implications this paradigm has for users, and research directions for the future. They …

Simple in-network data aggregation (or fusion) techniques for sensor networks have been
the focus of several recent research efforts, but they are insufficient to support advanced …

Stateful applications and virtualized network functions (VNFs) can benefit from state
externalization to increase their reliability, scalability, and inter-operability. To keep and share the …

Advances in deep learning have led to a resurgence of interest in video analytics. In an
exploratory video analytics pipeline, a data scientist often starts by searching for a global trend …

User file systems offer numerous advantages over their in-kernel implementations, such as
ease of development and better system reliability. However, they incur heavy performance …