About

This project implements a middleware for Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) computing in decentralized collaborative edge environments. The system enables efficient resource discovery, function scheduling, and execution across distributed edge nodes.

Affiliations

This research was conducted in collaboration with:

• ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
• FIT - Future Internet Technologies, research group at ISEL
• IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
• INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento

Publications

GECON 2024

The initial research was accepted at GECON 2024 (21st International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services) and received the Best Student Paper Award.

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

An extended version has been published in Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), a leading journal in distributed and parallel computing systems. The paper presents the theoretical foundations, system architecture, and experimental evaluation of the faas-edge middleware.

Citation:

@article{goncalves2025faas,
  title={A Function-as-a-Service Middleware for Decentralized Collaborative Edge Computing},
  author={Gonçalves, Catarina and Simão, José and Veiga, Luís},
  journal={Future Generation Computer Systems},
  pages={108069},
  year={2025},
  issn={0167-739X},
  doi={10.1016/j.future.2025.108069},
  url={https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X25003632}
}

Full Reference:

Catarina Gonçalves, José Simão, Luís Veiga. "A Function-as-a-Service Middleware for Decentralized Collaborative Edge Computing." Future Generation Computer Systems, 2025, 108069, ISSN 0167-739X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2025.108069

For more details about the research methodology and experimental results, please refer to the published papers.