Orchestrating Serverless Applications in the Edge Cloud Space Continuum: What Breaks and What is Next?

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Autores principales: Malazi, Hadi Tabatabaee, Farahani, Reza, Mohan, Nitinder, Dustdar, Schahram
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Publicado: 2026
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author Malazi, Hadi Tabatabaee
Farahani, Reza
Mohan, Nitinder
Dustdar, Schahram
author_facet Malazi, Hadi Tabatabaee
Farahani, Reza
Mohan, Nitinder
Dustdar, Schahram
contents Serverless computing has matured into an effective execution model for edge cloud environments, enabling function level decomposition, demand driven scaling, and workflow execution across stable, well provisioned infrastructure. This success motivates extending it to the edge cloud space continuum, where Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations are increasingly explored as distributed compute substrates. However, existing serverless orchestration is not directly applicable in this setting, where LEO systems impose time varying contact graphs, intermittent link availability, and strict feasibility constraints on energy, memory, communication, and operational cost. This article identifies ten broken assumptions in existing serverless orchestration and organizes them into three core challenges: spatiotemporal execution over dynamic graphs, constraint aware function placement and scaling, and correctness and progress under decentralized and delayed state. It then proposes an architecture that enables robust and efficient serverless execution across the continuum, grounded in these challenges and demonstrated through a representative flood response use case.
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spellingShingle Orchestrating Serverless Applications in the Edge Cloud Space Continuum: What Breaks and What is Next?
Malazi, Hadi Tabatabaee
Farahani, Reza
Mohan, Nitinder
Dustdar, Schahram
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Serverless computing has matured into an effective execution model for edge cloud environments, enabling function level decomposition, demand driven scaling, and workflow execution across stable, well provisioned infrastructure. This success motivates extending it to the edge cloud space continuum, where Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations are increasingly explored as distributed compute substrates. However, existing serverless orchestration is not directly applicable in this setting, where LEO systems impose time varying contact graphs, intermittent link availability, and strict feasibility constraints on energy, memory, communication, and operational cost. This article identifies ten broken assumptions in existing serverless orchestration and organizes them into three core challenges: spatiotemporal execution over dynamic graphs, constraint aware function placement and scaling, and correctness and progress under decentralized and delayed state. It then proposes an architecture that enables robust and efficient serverless execution across the continuum, grounded in these challenges and demonstrated through a representative flood response use case.
title Orchestrating Serverless Applications in the Edge Cloud Space Continuum: What Breaks and What is Next?
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04316