Conference Program

(Booklet in PDF)

December 10Hot Topics Day

Workshop on Machine-learning Enabled Safety-Critical Systems
Location: Crown Room (09:00 – 17:00)

2nd Workshop on OPtimization for Embedded and ReAl-time systems (OPERA)
Location: Wedgewood Room (10:45 – 17:00)

3rd International Workshop on Explainable Real-Time Systems and Their Analysis
Location: Minster Room (09:00 – 15:00)

Getting Started with the Quest RTOS and Quest-V Partitioning Hypervisor
Location: Minster Room (15:00 – 17:00)

Evening Drinks Reception
Location: Oak Room (18:00)

December 11 (Wednesday)

Locations: Events Centre; Evening drinks reception with posters and demos in the Oak Room.

December 12 (Thursday)

Locations: Events Centre

December 13 (Friday)

Locations: Events Centre


Session 1: Scheduling for Heterogeneous Resources (December 11, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM)

Session Chair: Bjorn Andersson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  • MESC: Re-thinking Algorithmic Priority and/or Criticality Inversion for Heterogeneous MCSs
    Authors: Jiapeng Guan, Ran Wei, Dean You, Yingquan Wang, Ruizhe Yang, Hui Wang and Zhe Jiang
  • Energy-Efficient Real-Time Job Mapping and Resource Management in Mobile-Edge Computing
    Authors: Chuanchao Gao, Niraj Kumar and Arvind Easwaran
  • Response Time Analysis for Limited-Preemptive Self-Suspending and Event-Driven Delay-Induced Tasks
    Authors: Srinidhi Srinivasan, Mario Günzel and Geoffrey Nelissen

Session 2: Real-Time Stream Processing (December 11, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM)

Session Chair: Tanya Amert, Carleton College, USA

  • Argus: Real-Time HQ Video Decoding with CPU Coordinating on Consumer Devices
    Authors: Qiang Chen and Changlong Li
  • Response-Time Analysis of a Soft Real-time NVIDIA Holoscan Application
    Authors: Philip N. Schowitz, Soham Sinha and Arpan Gujarati
  • BOXR: Body and head motion Optimization framework for eXtended Reality
    Authors: Ziliang Zhang, Zexin Li, Hyoseung Kim and Cong Liu

BP & RTSS@Work Session (December 11, 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM)

Location: Oak Room

Session Chairs: Hyoseung Kim, University of California, Riverside, USA and Alessandro Biondi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

Brief Presentation

  • Work-in-Progress: Real-Time Neural Network Inference on a Custom RISC-V Multicore Vector Processor
    Maximilian Kirschner, Konstantin Dudzik and Juergen Becker
  • Work-already-Published: TALESS: TSN with Legacy End-Stations Synchronization
    Daniel Bujosa, Julian Proenza, Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Thomas Nolte and Mohammad Ashjaei
  • Work-in-Progress: Dynamic Modeling and Real-time Simulation for Performance Analysis of Electric Vehicle Powertrain
    Byeon Hajin, Lim Jaeyoung, Han Yongha and Hong Jongsup
  • Work-in-Progress: Using Interaction Between Vehicles to Reduce Deadline Tardiness from a Route Assignment Perspective
    Thomas P. Carroll and Albert M. K. Cheng
  • Work-in-Progress: Utilizing Probabilistic Analysis to Fine-Tune Optimal IDK Cascades
    Anh-Vu Nguyen, Albert Cheng and Thomas P. Carroll
  • Work-in-Progress: Towards Real-time Collaborative 3D Object Detection Systems with Request-free Communication
    Shiqi Sun, Yantao Lu, Ning Liu, Bo Jiang, JinChao Chen and Ying Zhang
  • Work-in-Progress: Exploring Limited Preemption Approaches for the Phased Execution Model
    Thilanka Thilakasiri and Matthias Becker
  • Work-in-Progress: Multi-Deadline DAG Scheduling Model for Autonomous Driving Systems
    Atsushi Yano and Takuya Azumi
  • Work-already-Published: Real-time Intelligent On-device Monitoring of Heart Rate Variability with PPG Sensors
    Jingye Xu, Yuntong Zhang, Mimi Xie, Wei Wang and Dakai Zhu
  • Work-In-Progress: Energy and Thermal-Aware Scheduling based on HMARL for OpenMP DAG Workloads
    Mohammad Pivezhand, Aakriti Jain, Abusayeed Saifullah and Ali Jannesari
  • Work-already-Published: Analysis and Mitigation of Shared Resource Contention on Heterogeneous Multicore: An Industrial Case Study
    Heechul Yun
  • Work-in-Progress: Response Time Analysis of Partitioned and Clustered Systems with the Schedule-Abstraction Framework
    Geoffrey Nelissen
  • Work-in-Progress: Analyzing Worst-Case DDoS Traffic Scrub Effect and Recovery Delay via Attack Vector Combination
    Ziming Zhao, Zhaoxuan Li and Tingting Li

RTSS@Work (The proceedings can be found here.)

  • SAG 3.0: A Consolidated and Faster Schedule-Abstraction Graph Framework
    Geoffrey Nelissen, Pourya Gohari, Srinidhi Srinivasan, Richard Verhoeven, Björn Brandenburg and Mitra Nasri
  • METASAT: High-Performance Meets Real-Time and Reliability in Future Space Systems
    Marc Solé Bonet, Aridane Álvarez Suárez, Jannis Wolf, Matina Maria Trompouki and Leonidas Kosmidis
  • TEACH: Transferable RTOS Education with Accessible MicroController Hardware
    Christian Hakert, Kay Heider, Daniel Biebert, Kuan-Hsun Chen and Jian-Jia Chen
  • LLVMTA: An LLVM-Based Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis Tool
    Nils Hölscher, Jian-Jia Chen and Jan Reineke
  • Double-adaptive Hardware Queuing System
    Joanna Weissenberg and Marek Michalski
  • Kopernic Dynamic Benchmarks (KDBench) – open source measurement-based benchmarks
    Yves Sorel, Ismail Hawila, Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, Mehdi Mezouak, Hadrien Clarke and Slim Ben Amor

Session 3: Real-Time for AI/ML (December 12, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM)

Session Chair: Arpan Gujarati, University of British Columbia, Canada

  • IDK Cascades for Time-Series Input Streams
    Authors: Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, Alan Burns and Jinhao Zhao
  • Deadline-Safe Reach-Avoid Control Synthesis for Cyber-Physical Systems with Reinforcement Learning
    Authors: Mengyu Liu, Pengyuan Lu, Xin Chen, Oleg Sokolsky, Insup Lee and Fanxin Kong
  • DuoJoule: Accurate On-Device Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy and Timeliness
    Authors: Soheil Shirvani, Aritra Samanta, Zexin Li and Cong Liu

Session 4: Networking (December 12, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM)

Session Chair: Leandro Soares Indrusiak, University of Leeds, UK

  • Optimizing Quantum Assignment for DRR in TSN: A Network Calculus-Based Method
    Authors: Anlan Xie, Feng He and Luxi Zhao
  • An Improved Worst-Case Response Time Analysis for AVB Traffic in Time-Sensitive Networks
    Authors: Daniel Bujosa, Julián Proenza, Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Thomas Nolte and Mohammad Ashjaei
  • Burst-MAC: A MAC Protocol for Handling Burst Traffic in LoRa Network
    Authors: Aakriti Jain, Md Ashikul Haque, Abusayeed Saifullah and Haibo Zhang

Session 5: Real-Time Control Systems (December 12, 1:00 PM – 2:40 PM)

Session Chair: Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Exploring Real-Time Satellite Computing: From Energy and Thermal Perspectives
    Authors: Qing Li, Shangguang Wang, Chenren Xu, Xiao Ma, Mengwei Xu, Ao Zhou, Ruolin Xing, Boyuan Yang, Zuo Zhu, Ying Zhang and Xuanzhe Liu
  • ROTA-I/O: Hardware/Algorithm Co-design for Real-Time I/O Control with Improved Timing Accuracy and Robustnes
    Authors: Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Gang Chen, Xin Si and Nan Guan
  • Performance Optimization and Stability Guarantees for Multi-tier Real-Time Control Systems
    Authors: Yehan Ma, Ruijie Fu, An Zou, Jing Li, Cailian Chen, Chenyang Lu and Xinping Guan
  • SCENIC: Capability and Scheduling Co-Design for Intelligent Controller on Heterogeneous Platforms
    Authors: Jintao Chen, An Zou, Yuankai Xu and Yehan Ma

Session 6: Dealing with Uncertainty (December 12, 3:10 PM – 4:50 PM)

Session Chair: Giuseppe Lipari, University of Lille, France

  • (Outstanding Paper) A Distribution-Agnostic and Correlation-Aware Analysis of Periodic Tasks
    Authors: Filip Markovic, Georg von der Brüggen, Mario Günzel, Jian-Jia Chen and Björn Brandenburg
  • In Search of Butterflies: Exceedance Analysis for Real-Time Systems under Transient Overload
    Authors: Matteo Zini, Filip Markovic, Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi and Björn Brandenburg
  • Drawing Lines for Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis
    Authors: Tadeu Nogueira Costa de Andrade, George Lima and Veronica Maria Cadena Lima
  • Towards Principled Budget Enforcement in Real-Time Systems
    Authors: Joseph Goh and Jim Anderson

Session 7: Autonomous Systems (December 13, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM)

Session Chair: Yehan Ma, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  • RT-BEV: Enhancing Real-Time BEV Perception for Autonomous Vehicles
    Authors: Liangkai Liu, Jinkyu Lee and Kang G. Shin
  • Jigsaw: Taming BEV-centric Perception on Dual-SoC for Autonomous Driving
    Authors: Lingyu Sun, Chao Li, Xiaofeng Hou, Tianhao Huang, Cheng Xu, Xinkai Wang, Guangjun Bao, Bingchuan Sun, Shibo Rui and Minyi Guo
  • FLEX: Adaptive Task Batch Scheduling with Elastic Fusion in Multi-Modal Multi-View Machine Perception
    Authors: Yuhang Xu, Zixuan Liu, Xinzhe Fu, Shengzhong Liu, Fan Wu and Guihai Chen

Session 8: Memory/Resource Contention (December 13, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM)

Session Chair: Daniel Casini, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

  • Interference-free Operating System: A 6 Years’ Experience in Mitigating Cross-Core Interference in Linux
    Authors: Zhaomeng Deng, Ziqi Zhang, Ding Li, Yao Guo, Yunfeng Ye, Yuxin Ren, Ning Jia and Xinwei Hu
  • (Outstanding Paper) Coherence-Aided Memory Bandwidth Regulation
    Authors: Ivan Izhbirdeev, Denis Hoornaert, Weifan Chen, Alexander Zuepke, Youssef Hammad, Marco Caccamo and Renato Mancuso
  • Per-Bank Bandwidth Regulation of Shared Last-Level Cache for Real-Time Systems
    Authors: Connor R. Sullivan, Alex Manley, Mohammad Alian and Heechul Yun

Session 9: Multiprocessor Systems (December 13, 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM)

Session Chair: George Lima, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

  • (Outstanding Paper) FRAP: A Flexible Resource Accessing Protocol for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems
    Authors: Shuai Zhao, Hanzhi Xu, Nan Chen, Ruoxian Su and Wanli Chang
  • Mixed-Criticality Federated Scheduling for Relaxed-Deadline DAG Tasks
    Authors: Fei Guan, Jinkyu Lee, Jason Xue, Jen-Ming Wu and Nan Guan
  • (Outstanding Paper) Job-Level Batching for Software-Defined Radio on Multi-Core
    Authors: Abigail Eisenklam, Will Hedgecock and Bryan C. Ward

Session 10: Optimization for System Constraints (December 13, 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM)

Session Chair: Georg von der Brüggen, TU-Dortmund, Germany

  • Subtask-Level Elastic Scheduling
    Authors: Marion Sudvarg, Daisy Wang, Jeremy Buhler and Chris Gill
  • Priority Optimization for Autonomous Driving Systems to Meet End-to-End Latency Constraints
    Authors: Xisheng Li, Ye Ma, Yuting Chen, Jinghao Sun, Wanli Chang, Nan Guan, Liming Chen and Qingxu Deng
  • Partial Context-Sensitive Pointer Integrity for Real-time Embedded Systems
    Authors: Yujie Wang, Cailani Lemieux-Mack, Thidapat (Tam) Chantem, Sanjoy Baruah, Ning Zhang and Bryan C. Ward

Important Dates

Dates
Paper Submission DeadlineThursday, May 23, 2024
Rebuttal PeriodFrom Friday, Jul 12 to Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
Author Notification of Acceptance DecisionWednesday, July 31, 2024
Artifact Evaluation DeadlineFriday, August 23, 2024
Submission of camera-ready papers:Friday, October 4, 2024
Author Registration DeadlineSunday, October 27, 2024
Early Registration DeadlineMonday, November 11, 2024
Hot-Topics DayTuesday, Dec 10, 2024
Main ConferenceWednesday, Dec 11 to Friday Dec 13, 2024
(All times are UTC-12, or “anywhere on earth,” unless otherwise stated.)

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