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Special Tracks:
The
27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium in Rio
will feature special tracks on sensor networks, middleware, and
hardware/software co-design. Please see description of these tracks below.
Real-Time
Communication and Sensor Networks
Driven
by advances in MEMS micro-sensors, wireless networking, and embedded
processing, ad-hoc networks of sensors are becoming increasingly available
for commercial and military applications such as environmental monitoring
(e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrial sensing and diagnostics
(e.g., factory, appliances), monitoring critical infrastructures (e.g.,
power grids, water distribution, waste disposal), and collecting data for
battlefield awareness. Sensor networks is an interdisciplinary research
area, which spans the areas of signal processing/detection/estimation,
networking and protocols, embedded systems, data bases and information
management, as well as distributed algorithms. It opens up new research
venues, which include sensor tasking and control, tracking and
localization, sensor data fusion, communication protocols that address
timeliness, network coverage, connectivity, and capacity, as well as
system/software architecture and design methodologies. Moreover, all these
issues have to consider many cross-cutting requirements such as
efficiency/cost tradeoffs, robustness, self-organization, fault-tolerance,
scalability, and network longevity.
This
special track calls for papers that highlight technical issues from
physical device design, signal processing, network protocols/algorithms, to
revolutionary new applications enabled by sensor network technology. In
particular, we are seeking contributions in all aspects of sensor networks.
Of particular interest are:
1. papers that study the fundamental performance and
behavior limits of sensor networks with respect to sensor network capacity,
coverage, connectivity, and/or lifetime. As wireless sensor networks must
operate under extreme resource constraints, an understanding of the
fundamental performance limits of such networks will provide valuable
insights into what designs make sense and can help identify areas in which
theory promises performance much better than that attained by existing
designs.
2. papers that devise algorithms which realize certain
sensor network operation, such as localization, time synchronization, and
target tracking. Papers that compare alternative algorithms/approaches with
respect to various sensor network requirements are also sought.
3. papers that deal with system implementations,
experiments, and experiences in application domains. At an early stage of
sensor network development, one can analyze and predict network behavior
through simulation and theoretical reasoning. However, a true evaluation of
system performance can only be obtained through implementation and direct
measurement and experimentation of the prototype. Hence papers that report
the system implementation issues with an emphasis on the cross-layer design
tradeoffs will shed light on how effective the overall system design is.
Example
topical areas of interests include, but are not limited to:
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Coding and
information theory
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Detection,
classification, and estimation
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Distributed
networked sensing and control
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Data
compression, association, aggregation, and fusion
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Data-centric
routing and attribute based addressing
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Energy
efficient medium access control and resource management
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Localization,
tracking, and time synchronization
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Network
coverage, connectivity, and longevity
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Query
processing and optimization
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Security
Simulation environments and systems prototyping
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Sensor
network applications and services
Real-Time Middleware and Software Engineering
Real-time and embedded systems are increasingly being networked
together to form distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. We
therefore need principled techniques and tools for specifying, programming,
composing, integrating, and validating middleware that can satisfy
end-to-end quality of service (QoS) requirements of DRE applications. Key
research challenges include:
1.
Determining how a myriad of real-world physical constraints can be
integrated and satisfied simultaneously with multi-dimensional QoS and
functional constraints when designing middleware.
2.
Elevating the levels of abstraction at which middleware for DRE
systems are developed and validated, including model-based software
techniques, aspect-oriented programming, and QoS-enabled component models.
3.
Examining the current levels of abstraction used in developing DRE
middleware with a focus on improving the usefulness of metrics and
validation techniques.
4.
Increasing the use of formal modeling and analysis techniques in
developing DRE systems, and advancing the capabilities of the tools that
support those techniques to the point that they can be applied to the
design, development, and validation of DRE systems of reasonable scale and
complexity.
The Real-Time Middleware and Software Engineering track for RTSS
therefore invites papers in areas that are relevant to next-generation DRE
middleware, including but not limited to the following topics:
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Real-Time Java support and applications
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DRE middleware, e.g., Real-Time CORBA and Distributed Real-Time Java
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Secure DRE middleware
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Novel middleware-level mechanisms
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Open middleware architectures for resource management
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DRE software component models
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QoS-aware application design and patterns
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DRE system modeling and analysis techniques,
tools, and case studies
Hardware/Software Co-design
Research in
Hardware/Software Co-design addresses strategic techniques, tools and
methodologies for the design of modern electronic embedded systems.
These embedded
systems are increasingly complex, both in their applications and in their
architectures. Single processor embedded controllers have been replaced by
heterogeneously structured Multiprocessor-Systems-On-Chip (MpSoC) that
employ multiple programmable processors together with hardware
accelerators, special purpose function units, specialized memory
structures, and multi-hop internal communication networks.
Programmable
and reconfigurable hardware/software systems are moving into traditionally
hardware dominated applications due to their superior flexibility. At the
same time, such MpSoCs are configured to networked distributed systems that
add to architecture and design complexity.
This RTSS
special track covers all aspects of hardware/software-co-design in the
context of real-time systems including hardware and software architectures,
design space exploration, synthesis, and design process.
This special
track seeks papers in all areas of hardware/software co-design, as well as
emerging areas that relate specifically to real-time embedded systems.
Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Computer-Aided Co-Design Techniques: Specification and modeling, design representation,
synthesis, partitioning, estimation, design space exploration, co-design
for reliable systems.
2. Software for Co-Design: Software
development environments, real-time operating systems supporting HW/SW
architectures, scheduling algorithms for complex HW/SW-systems, hardware
dependent software, software synthesis, retargetable compilation.
3. Co-Design Architectures: Hardware/software interfaces, distributed, multiprocessor,
and heterogeneous SOC architectures, re-configurable platforms, on-chip
communication networks.
4. System Development Process: Design methodology, concurrent engineering, design reuse, process
management, intellectual property, system integration.
5. Verification and Test of Hardware/Software
Systems: Co-Simulation,
formal verification, test strategies, emulation and debugging, rapid
prototyping.
6. Applications: Frameworks, tools, case studies, new application
areas.
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