09:00 – 10:10
CLD-CON-S1
Orchestration & Cloud Continuum
Room: 116
Session Chair: Zhiying Tu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Opening Remarks
Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, IEEE Cloud General Chair
CLD_REG_131: A Hybrid Approach for Intent-Driven Recommendation of CEI Orchestration Frameworks
Chaimaa Zidane, Hayet Brabra, Imen Jerbi, Elimane Yassine Seidou, Ali Nour Eldin, Mohamed Sellami and Walid Gaaloul
CLD_REG_128: Intent-Aware Multi-Domain Cloud Continuum Coordination through Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning
Anna Lackinger, Andrea Morichetta and Schahram Dustdar
CLD_SHT_20: Aura: A Type-Safe, Multi-Paradigm Cloud Simulation Framework in Scala 3
Andrea Cappelletti
CLD_WIP_74: A Neurosymbolic Prolog Skill for LLM-Driven Service Placement
Jacopo Massa, Giuseppe Bisicchia, Patrizio Dazzi and Antonio Brogi
10:40 – 11:50
CLD-CON-S2
Container Placement & Microservice Scheduling
Room: 116
Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )
CON_REG_8: REACH: Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Microservice Rescheduling in the Cloud–Edge Continuum
Xu Bai, Adel N. Toosi, Rajkumar Buyya and Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam
CLD_REG_66: BridgeScheduler: Non-Intrusive Sensing and Collaborative Scheduling for Hybrid Edge-Cloud Environments
Song He, Yuehao Xu, Jiasheng Wang, Jian Yu and Zhijun Ding
CLD_SHT_7: Enhancing Task-based Workflows Deployment Across the Compute Continuum with Kubernetes Multiclusters
Alba Cañete-Garrucho, Bernat Xandri-Zaragoza, Kemalcan Bora, Elli Karstakli and Eduardo Quiñones
CLD_SHT_148: LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration for Constrained Multi-Objective Container Placement
Suvarthi Sarkar, Abhishek Hazra, Akshat Mittal and Aryabartta Sahu
11:50 – 13:00
CLD-CON-S3
Serverless Workflow Scheduling
Room: 116
Session Chair: Nan Yang (Westren Sydeny University)
CLD_REG_107: An SLO-Driven Feedback Controller for Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
Angelo Marchese and Orazio Tomarchio
CLD_REG_99: Data-Parallel and Heterogeneity-Aware Scheduling for Geo-Distributed Serverless Scientific Workflows
Shubhradeep Roy, Suvarthi Sarkar, Mukka Koushik, Tanish and Aryabartta Sahu
CLD_REG_76: Two-level Network Bandwidth Allocation for Multi-tenant AI Clouds in Kubernetes
Sunyanan Choochotkaew, Lionel Jouin and Tatsuhiro Chiba
14:00 – 15:10
CLD-INV-S1
Room: 116
Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )
Keynote: Rethinking the Cloud for Agentic AI
Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, United States
15:40 – 16:50
CLD-CON-S4
Cloud Economics: Cost & Spot Markets
Room: 116
Session Chair: Aryabartta Sahu, IIT Guwahati, India
CLD_REG_162: SpotWhisk: Transferring the Spot Instances Cost-Efficiency to Serverless Data Analytics Pipelines
Enrique Molina-Giménez, Pedro García-López and Javier Fabra
CLD_REG_163: Ding-Dong Ditch: Peeking Into Spot Instance Availability
Kyumin Kim, Moohyun Song, Taeyoon Kim and Kyungyong Lee
CLD_REG_30: Understanding Cross-Cloud Interconnects: Hands-On Measurements and Cost Optimization
Eitan Eliav, Isaac Keslassy, David Breitgand, Dean Lorenz and Avi Weit
13:00 – 14:10
CLD-INV-S2
Room: 116
Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )
Keynote: The Rise of Edge-Native Clinical AI: Generative Models, Distributed Systems, and the Future of Medicine
Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia
14:10 – 15:20
CLD-CON-S5
Distributed Stream Processing & Data Management
Room: 116
Session Chair: Zhiying Tu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
CLD_REG_37: Federated Querying of Heterogeneous Spatiotemporal Data over Polyglot Stores
Everett Lewark, Nathan Orwick, Paige Hansen, Ayush Adhikari, Sangmi Lee Pallickara and Shrideep Pallickara
CLD_REG_61: Effectiveness of Coded Redundancy for Reducing Task Average Latency in Distributed Stream Processing Systems
Yuxuan Lin, Bin Tang, Shengjing Wang, Lei Chen, Xutong Jiang and Rajkumar Buyya
CLD_REG_135: Topology-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Resource Allocation in Cloud-Native Stream Processing
Sunday Awine and Jinwei Liu
15:50 – 17:00
CLD-CON-S6
Cloud Data Management & Performance Prediction
Room: 107
Session Chair: Reza Farahani ( TU Vienna)
CLD_REG_72: Predicting Lakehouse Performance in Clouds: An Empirical Exploration of Query Runtime Variance
James Nurdin, Wei Liu, Richard McCreadie and Lauritz Thamsen
CLD_REG_14: Semantic-Aware Graph Schema Discovery for Heterogeneous Cloud Metadata
Yann Ramusat, Jeremy Mechouche, Nada El Mansouri and Zakaria Maamar
CLD_SHT_36 (Short): Small-Sample Tail Latency Prediction for Cloud Time-Series Database Services via Censoring-Aware Extreme Value Theory
Fuming Fu
CLD_SHT_46: Regime-Aware Resource Demand Forecasting for Cloud Scheduling: When History Beats ML and When ML Matters
Kalab Kiros and Jinwei Liu
15:50 – 17:00
CLD-CON-S7
Energy & Resource Efficiency
Room: 116
Session Chair: Mahdi Taheri (Brandenburg University)
CON_REG_9: Augur: Pre-Execution Energy Prediction for Workflow Tasks in Heterogeneous Clusters
Kathleen West, Vasilis Bountris, Philipp Thamm, Ulf Leser, Yehia Elkhatib and Lauritz Thamsen
CLD_REG_50: Nf-PEAK: Process-Based Energy Attribution for Nextflow Workflows on Kubernetes Clusters
Philipp Thamm, Somayeh Mohammadi, Kathleen West, Knut Reinert, Lauritz Thamsen and Ulf Leser
CLD_REG_63: MLOPSHER: A Lightweight MLOps Usher with a Minimal Operational Contract for DVC–MLflow–FastAPI on Kubernetes
Junsu Park and Hyoungwoo Park
13:00 – 14:10
CLD-INV-S3
Room: 116
Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )
Keynote: The Future of AI Platforms: Resilient Self-Sustaining Clouds delivering Application Specific SLOs
Ravishankar K. Iyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
14:10 – 15:20
CLD-CON-S8
Cloud Systems & Performance
Room: 116
Session Chair: Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia
CLD_REG_84: Estimating Execution Progress of Black-Box Tasks with Resource-Consumption Models
Sami Kharma, Tobias Wies, Florian Schintke and Björn Scheuermann
CLD_REG_160: DITTO: Online Memory Rightsizing and Value-Aware Eviction for Reducing Cold Starts in Serverless Platforms
Dongjae Lee, Kyuli Park, Yeonwoo Jeong, Hongsu Byun and Sungyong Park
CLD_REG_158: CODA: Breaking CPU Bottlenecks for Scalable Ceph with DPU-Based OSD Decoupling
Kyuli Park, Sungmin Yoon, Awais Khan, Sungyong Park and Youngjae Kim
15:50 – 17:00
CLD-CON-S9
Efficient LLM Inference
Room: 116
Session Chair: Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia
CLD_REG_113: BYSTANDER: State-Aware Execution-Time Prediction for Heterogeneous LLM Inference Scheduling
Minjae Jung, Hyungjun Kim, Hokun Park, Hwamin Lee and Heonchang Yu
CLD_REG_12: Can Byte-Level and Bit-Level Optimizations Enhance The Parameter Lossless Compression of Large Language Models?
Miaowei Liu, Hongcai He, Chengda Wu, Hui Xu, Zetao Zheng and Jie Shao
CLD_SHT_54: Reducing Memory Requirements of LLM Inference Through Online rANS Decompression
Väinö-Waltteri Granat, Jakub Žádník, Markku Mäkitalo, Joonas Multanen and Pekka Jääskeläinen
CLD_SHT_150: Energy Efficiency and Fairness of Local Large Language Models in Data Stream Processing
Hessel Tjeerdsma, Roya Nasiri, Joshua Owotogbe, Indika Kumara, Damian Andrew Tamburri and Willem-Jan van den Heuvel
13:00 – 14:10
CLD-CON-S10
Storage & Memory Systems
Room: 107
Session Chair: Joon Yong Hwang (Cornelis Networks)
CLD_REG_95: NetCAS: Dynamic Cache and Backend Device Management in Networked Environments
Joon Yong Hwang, Chanseo Park and Younghoon Kim
CLD_REG_40: FATE: Fairness-Aware Memory Allocation for Multi-Tenant Tiered Memory Environments
Minwoo Jo, Binwon Song, Hayong Jeong and Heeseung Jo
CLD_SHT_35: Tail Erase Count: A Wear Metric for Lifetime-Aware Management in Heterogeneous SSD Clusters
Ilhoon Shin
CLD_SHT_149: Input-Agnostic Runtime Metric Based Memory Optimization for Serverless Functions
Seunghun Kim and Youngjoo Shin
13:00 – 14:10
CLD-CON-S11
Networking & Distributed Infrastructure
Room: 116
Session Chair: Shaleeza Sohail (University of Newcastle)
CLD_REG_56: PRISM: Workload-Aware Autonomous Network Fault Recovery for Hyperscale AI Training Fabrics
Rohan Bhosle
CLD_REG_41: ContaTOE: FPGA SmartNIC-Based TCP Offloading for Scalable Multi-Container Networking
Tatsuya Kawano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gongyu Deng, Takaaki Fukai and Takahiro Hirofuchi
CLD_SHT_166: Secure and Efficient Monitoring of Confidential VMs Using Programmable Read-ahead with eBPF
Kanta Uesugi and Kenichi Kourai
CLD_SHT_153: C-PCP: Correlation-Aware Proportional Critical Path Scheduling for Input-Sensitive Serverless Workflows
G Vasantha Reddy, Chandrashekhar Dharmarajan, Suvarthi Sarkar and Aryabartta Sahu
10:40 – 11:50
CLD-CON-S12
Serving, Offloading & Routing for Cloud-Edge AI Systems
Room: 107
Session Chair: Reza Farahani ( TU Vienna)
CLD_REG_82: Design Methodology and Performance Trade-offs Management for Compound AI Systems
Milos Gravara, Andrija Stanisic and Stefan Nastic
CLD_SHT_144: Resource-Aware Multi-Model Serving for GPU Cloud Infrastructure
Bhanu Prakash Vangala and Tanu Malik
CLD_SHT_4: Task-Aware Offloading for Heterogeneous DC-HAP Systems
Jichen Lu, Balsam Alkouz, Osama Amin and Basem Shihada
CLD_SHT_47: A Cooperative MADRL Approach for Joint Computing Offloading and Route Optimization in Cloud-Edge Networks
Yi Yue, Shuai Zhang, Zhengxin Han, Ying Liu, Chang Cao and Xiongyan Tang
CLD_SHT_57: Fairness-Aware Dynamic Pricing and Service Routing for Cloud-Edge Systems via Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Learning
Yun Xia, Gang Zhou, Zhipeng Gao, Lichuan Pan, Ming Zhang, Jian Yang and Yang Yang
10:40 – 11:50
CLD-CON-S13
AI & LLM Inference Serving
Room: 116
Session Chair: Sunyanan Choochotkaew (IBM Research)
CLD_REG_38: InferScale: Kubernetes-Native Predictive Autoscaling for SLO-Aware AI Inference
Wen Huang
CLD_REG_73: Dynamic Pipeline Inference Optimization for LLMs: Load-Aware Partitioning, Updating, and Migration
Yingxin Wang, Binbin Feng and Zhijun Ding
CLD_REG_45: WVA: A Global Optimization Control Plane for llmd
Abhishek Malvankar, Lionel Villard, Mohammed Abdi, Tommaso Sgreccia, Evgeny Shindin, Braulio Dumba, Vishakha Ramani, Asser Tantawi and Tamar Eilam
13:00 – 14:10
CLD-CON-S14
AIOps & Emerging Cloud
Room: 107
Session Chair: Ba Hung Nguyen (Hitachi RDG)
CLD_REG_116: AnchorDL: Dual-Locality-based Scheduling for Serverless Inference Workflows
Min Chang Kim, Hyungjun Kim, Hokun Park, Minjae Kang, Hwamin Lee and Heonchang Yu
CLD_SHT_112: Ada-MGAD: Adaptive Multi-Modal Graph Anomaly Detection
Linlin Zhang, Xiaoran Zhao and Chuan Luo
CLD_SHT_108: QCOEM: Quantum Cloud Orchestration with Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization
Tam N. Pham, Hoa T. Nguyen and Quan Le-Trung
CLD_WIP_145: Operational Intelligence for Incident Management through OSS MCP-Based Agentic Orchestration
Ba Hung Nguyen and Hitoshi Yabusaki
CLD_WIP_97: SplitPGV: Separating Neighbors from Element for Efficient HNSW Indexing
Beomjoon Shin and Jonghyeok Park
13:00 – 14:10
CLD-CON-S15
Cloud Security & Zero Trust
Room: 116
Session Chair: Thai T. Vu (University of Wollongong)
CLD_REG_8: Detecting False Assurance in Cloud Control Inheritance Using a Federated Compliance Integrity Graph
Arun Chowdary Sanna
CLD_REG_53: Kernel-Anchored Zero-Trust: A Sidecar-less Service Mesh for Low-Latency Financial Edge Applications
Shrikant Sonparote and Sudhanshu Maurya
CLD_REG_39: Penny: Reducing Storage Costs for Ethereum Synchronization with Hybrid Storage Devices
Yunhyeong Seo, Inhwi Hwang, Hyeonsang Eom and Jin Yong Ha
14:10 – 15:20
CLD-CON-S16
Adaptive & Energy-Efficient Cloud Systems
Room: 107
Session Chair: Sunyanan Choochotkaew (IBM Research)
*CLD_REG_86: GreenGNN: Energy-Aware Windowed Communication Optimization for Distributed GNN Training
Arefin Niam, Tevfik Kosar and M. S. Q. Zulkar Nine
CLD_REG_42: HYADES: Adaptive Consumer Tuning in Redis Streams via Hybrid Expert Selection
Kemalcan Bora, Elli Kartsakli and Eduardo Quiñones
CLD_SHT_59: Flare: Leveraging Serverless Elasticity to Absorb Microservice Load Spikes
Dilina Dehigama, Shyam Jesalpura, David Schall, Marios Kogias, Antonis Katsarakis, Rakesh Kumar and Boris Grot
14:10 – 15:20
CLD-CON-S17
Data Protection & Storage Security
Room: 116
Session Chair: Zhiying Tu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
CLD_REG_105: Probabilistic Marking based Secure Cross-user Deduplication in Cloud Storage
Lele Rao, Jiaxin Li and Xin Tang
CLD_INV_1: A Cloud and IoT-Based Secure Data Sharing Model for Smart Homes and Cyber-Physical Systems
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Maribel Fernandez, Jenjira Jaimunk and Weerasak Chiangsoi
CLD_SHT_91: Grouping based Double Obfuscation Strategy for Secure Cross-user Deduplication in Cloud Storage
Ruoxi Zhao, Ranshang Sun, Chuqiao Song and Xin Tang
CLD_SHT_109: Closing the Agent Blind Spot: Zero Trust Behavioral Verification for Human and Non-Human Identities in Cloud Storage
Venkata Saikumar Thalupuru and Vishal Gupta