Note we have a full program which will conclude around 18:30 on the final day of RTSS 2018 (Friday 14th Dec). Please plan your travel so that you can attend all of the conference.
Conference Booklet
The Conference Booklet contains full details of the conference program as well as other useful information.
Event locations and floor plan
Tuesday 11th Dec 2018: Workshops
Program for the 1st Workshop on Efficient Real-time Data Networks (ERDN)
Workshop Chairs: Huayu Zhang and ChinaHui Li
Program for the 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy and Real-time Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems (TREC4CPS)
Workshop Chairs: Aron Laszka and Abhishek Dubey
Program for the 6th International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC)
Workshop Chairs: Zhishan Guo and Jing Li
8:30 – Registration Opens
9:20 – 10:20 – Workshops Session 1
10:20 – 10:50 – Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:30 – Workshops Session 2
12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:40 – Workshops Session 3
15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:50 – Workshops Session 4
18:00 – Reception
Wednesday 12th Dec 2018: Conference day 1
8:00 – Registration Opens
8:40 – 9:00 – Opening remarks
Introduction: Robert I. Davis and Isabelle Puaut
[Presentation]
9:00 – 9:30 – Award Speech
Session Chair: Isabelle Puaut
Real-Time Computing and the Evolution of Embedded System Designs [Presentation]
Tei-Wei Kuo
9:30 -10:20 – Session 1: Networks
Session Chair: Isabelle Puaut
Rapid routing with guaranteed delay bounds [Presentation]
Sanjoy Baruah
Distributed Real-Time Shortest-Paths Computations with the Field Calculus [Presentation]
Giorgio Audrito, Ferruccio damiani, Mirko Viroli and Enrico Bini
10:20 – 10:50 – Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:30 – Session 2: Autonomous Systems and Applications
Session Chair: Tam Chantem
RIM: Robust Intersection Management for Connected Autonomous Vehicles [Presentation]
Mohammad Khayatian, Mohammadreza Mehrabian and Aviral Shrivastava
bCharge: Data-Driven Real-Time Charging Scheduling for Large-Scale Electric Bus Fleets [Presentation]
Guang-Wang, Xiaoyang Xie, Fan Zhang, Yunhuai Liu and Desheng Zhang
Dynamic Channel Selection for Real-time Safety Message Communication in Vehicular Networks [Presentation]
Yunhao Bai, Kuangyu Zheng, Zejiang Wang, Xiaorui Wang and Junmin Wang
ApNet: Approximation-aware Real-Time Neural Network [Presentation]
Soroush Bateni and Cong Liu
12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:40 – Session 3: Real-Time Support on GPUs
Session Chair: Alessandro Biondi
Making OpenVX Really “Real Time” [Presentation]
Ming Yang, Tanya Amert, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Otterness, James H. Anderson, F. Donelson Smith and Shige Wang
CycleTandem: Energy-Saving Scheduling for Real-Time Systems with Hardware Accelerators [Presentation]
Sandeep D’souza and Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar
PredJoule: A Timing-Predictable Energy Optimization Framework for Deep Neural Networks [Presentation]
Soroush Bateni, Husheng Zhou, Yuankun Zhu and Cong Liu
Deadline-based Scheduling for GPU with Preemption Support [Presentation]
Nicola Capodieci, Roberto Cavicchioli, Marko Bertogna and Aingara Paramakuru
15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:50 – Session 4: Brief Presentations / RTSS@Work
Session Chairs: Martina Maggio and Bryan Ward
List of Brief Presentations
18:00 – Posters and Demos reception
Thursday 13th Dec 2018: Conference day 2
8:00 Registration Opens
8:40-10:20 – Session 5: I/O and Formal Methods
Session Chair: Gedare Bloom
Partitioned Real-Time NAND Flash Storage [Presentation]
Katherine Missimer and Richard West
Tuned Pipes: End-to-end Throughput and Delay Guarantees for USB Devices [Presentation]
Ahmad Golchin, Zhuoqun Cheng and Richard West
Automatic Trace Generation for Signal Temporal Logic [Presentation]
Pavithra Prabhakar, Ratan Lal and James Kapinski
A Generic Coq Proof of Typical Worst-Case Analysis [Presentation]
Pascal Fradet, Maxime Lesourd, Jean-Francois Monin and Sophie Quinton
10:20 – 10:50 – Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:30 – Session 6: Multicore Systems
Session Chair: Zhishan Guo
Analysis of Dynamic Memory Bandwidth Regulation in Multi-core Real-Time Systems [Presentation]
Ankit Agrawal, Renato Mancuso, Rodolfo Pellizzoni and Gerhard Fohler
Optimal Implementation of Simulink Models on Multicore Architectures with Partitioned Fixed Priority Scheduling [Presentation]
Shamit Bansal, Yecheng Zhao, Haibo Zeng and Kehua Yang
Scheduling Multi-Periodic Mixed Criticality DAGs on Multi-Core Architectures [Presentation]
Roberto Medina, Etienne Borde and Laurent Pautet
NoCo: ILP-based Worst-Case Contention Estimation for Mesh Real-Time Manycores [Presentation]
Jordi Cardona, Carles Hernandez, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella and Francisco J. Cazorla
12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:40 – Session 7: Industry Panel Session
Session Chair: Xenofon Koutsoukos
Topic: Real-time Internet of Things: Existing Solutions, Current Problems, and Future Challenges
Pop-up presentation due to late speaker cancellations
Transferring Real-Time Systems Research into Industrial Practice: Four Impact Case Studies [Presentation]
Robert Davis
15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:25 – Session 8: Communications
Session Chair: Ahlem Mifdaoui
TDMH-MAC: Real-time and multi-hop in the same wireless MAC [Presentation]
Federico Terraneo, Paolo Polidori, Alberto Leva and William Fornaciari
MC-SDN: Supporting Mixed-Criticality Scheduling on Switched-Ethernet Using Software-Defined Networking [Presentation]
Kilho Lee, Taejune Park, Minsu Kim, Hoon Sung Chwa, Jinkyu Lee, Seungwon Shin and Insik Shin
Optimizing Network Calculus for Switched Ethernet Network with Deficit Round Robin [Presentation]
Aakash Soni, Xiaoting LI, Jean-Luc Scharbarg and Christian Fraboul
17:30 – 18:15 – TCRTS meeting
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18:30 -22:00 – Museum visit and Banquet
Friday 14th Dec 2018: Conference day 3
8:00 Registration Opens
8:40-10:20 – Session 9: Memory and I/O
Session Chair: Robert Kaiser
Memory Feasibility Analysis of Parallel Tasks Running on Scratchpad-Based Architectures [Presentation]
Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, Geoffrey Nelissen and Giorgio Buttazzo
BUNDLEP: Prioritizing Conflict Free Regions in Multi-Threaded Programs to Improve Cache Reuse [Presentation]
Corey Tessler and Nathan Fisher
Semi-Extended Tasks: Efficient Stack Sharing Among Blocking Threads [Presentation]
Christian Dietrich and Daniel Lohmann
Exploiting Locality for the Performance Analysis of Shared Memory Systems in MPSoCs [Presentation]
Selma Saidi and Alexander Syring
10:20 – 10:50 – Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:30 – Session 10: Uni-Processor Scheduling
Session Chair: Julio Medina
The SRP Resource Sharing Protocol for Self-Suspending Tasks [Presentation]
Geoffrey Nelissen and Alessandro Biondi
Uniprocessor Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Graceful Degradation by Completion Rate [Presentation]
Zhishan Guo, Kecheng Yang, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Samsil Arefin, Sajal K. Das and Haoyi Xiong
An Efficient Knapsack-Based Approach for Calculating the Worst-Case Demand of AVR Tasks [Presentation]
Sandeep Kumar Bijinemula, Aaron Willcock, Thidapat Chantem and Nathan Fisher
Schedulability Analysis of Adaptive Variable-Rate Tasks with Dynamic Switching Speeds [Presentation]
Chao Peng, Yecheng Zhao and Haibo Zeng
12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:40 – Session 11: Multi-Processor Scheduling
Session Chair: Enrico Bini
An Optimal Semi-Partitioned Scheduler Assuming Arbitrary Affinity Masks [Presentation]
Sergey Voronov and James H. Anderson
Partitioned Fixed-Priority Scheduling of Parallel Tasks Without Preemptions [Presentation]
Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, Geoffrey Nelissen and Giorgio Buttazzo
Dependency Graph Approach for Multiprocessor Real-Time Synchronization [Presentation]
Jian-Jia Chen, Georg von der Brüggen, Junjie Shi and Niklas Ueter
An Improved Speedup Factor for Sporadic Tasks with Constrained Deadlines under Dynamic Priority Scheduling [Presentation]
Xin Han, Liang Zhao, Zhishan Guo and Xingwu Liu
15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:50 – Session 12: Outstanding Papers
Session Chair: Rob Davis
Shedding the Shackles of Time-Division Multiplexing [Presentation]
Farouk Hebbache, Mathieu Jan, Florian Brandner and Laurent Pautet
Design and Analysis of SIC: A Provably Timing-Predictable Pipelined Processor Core [Presentation]
Sebastian Hahn and Jan Reineke
Reservation-Based Federated Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Tasks [Presentation]
Niklas Ueter, Georg von der Brüggen, Jian-Jia Chen, Jing Li and Kunal Agrawal
On the Off-chip Memory Latency of Real-Time Systems: Is DDR DRAM Really the Best Option? [Presentation]
Mohamed Hassan