ICSA 2026
Mon 22 - Fri 26 June 2026
Thu 25 Jun 2026 15:50 - 16:10 at Theatre 2 - Cloud-Native Operations Chair(s): Mahyar T. Moghaddam

Cloud-native microservice systems increasingly rely on autoscaling to maintain performance under fluctuating workloads, yet scaling decisions strongly influence energy consumption and carbon emissions, making sustainability a growing concern for modern cloud infrastructures. Traditional mechanisms such as the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler optimize only performance metrics and ignore the carbon intensity of electricity sources, leading to excessive provisioning and higher emissions. To address this limitation, this paper proposes a Carbon-Aware Autoscaling System based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks that jointly model workload dynamics and inter-service dependencies while integrating real-time regional carbon intensity. The autoscaler dynamically moderates scaling levels using carbon-aware thresholds, enabling adaptive trade-offs between performance and sustainability. We evaluated our approach on three benchmark microservice applications (TrainTicket, OnlineBoutique, and Bookinfo) using a synchronized monitoring stack for performance, energy, and carbon metrics. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves an average carbon emission reduction of approximately 24% in high-intensity regions (300 gCO2/kWh) and 17% in low-intensity regions (100 gCO2/kWh) as compared to HPA while maintaining comparable performance in low-carbon conditions.

Preprint (preprint_draft_53142.pdf)13.64MiB
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Thu 25 Jun

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15:30 - 16:45
Cloud-Native OperationsJournal First / Research Papers / Software Architecture in Practice / ‎​ at Theatre 2
Chair(s): Mahyar T. Moghaddam University of Southern Denmark
15:30
20m
Research paper
LEAF: A Layered Emission Assessment Framework for Cloud DeploymentsJournal First
Journal First
Prakhar Singhal International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad, Shaunak Biswas IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad, Kappagantu Ravi , Akhila Matathammal IIITH, Srinivas Katakam , Ch Pavan Harshit IIIT Hyderabad, India, Jitendra Chougala
15:50
20m
Research paper
Green Autoscaler for Performance Aware Microservices: a Machine Learning Approach
Research Papers
Thanh-Phuc Tran , Abhinandan Roul , Ishara Galbokka Hewage , Mahira Joytu , Roberta Capuano University of L'Aquila, Italy, Eoan O'Dea University of L'Aquila and University of Groningen, Rafiullah Omar University of L'Aquila, Hergys Rexha Åbo Akademi University, Sebastien Lanfond , Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila, Italy
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16:10
20m
Research paper
A Layered Control Loop Architecture for Transparent Self-AdaptationDistinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Martina Missana Politecnico di Milano, Arianna Paone Politecnico di Milano, Andrea Tarabotto Politecnico di Milano, Francesco Renato Negri Politecnico di Milano, Niccolò Nicolosi Politecnico di Milano, Matteo Camilli Politecnico di Milano, Raffaela Mirandola Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
16:30
15m
Paper
A Comparison of ROS 2 and AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform Against Industry-Elicited Automotive Middleware Requirements
Software Architecture in Practice