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2015/07/07

  • 09:00 - 17:00
    Workshops (E-building): map of the locations
    RTSOPS 2015, WCET 2015, OSPERT 2015, WATERS 2015
  • 17:30
    Newcomer's reception. There will be a reception for the people who registered to the conference as a newcomer (first time at ECRTS). The reception will be right after the workshops, at 17.30, in the seminar room of the Department of Automatic Control (M-building – Maskinteknik, map), on the second floor. Newcomers are encouraged to participate in the event. You will have the opportunity to meet some of the main experts in the real-time systems community, and also to get to know each other.

2015/07/08

  • 08:00 - 12:00
    Registration (Palestra, map)

  • 08:45 - 09:00
    Opening Remarks: Karl-Erik Årzén and Steve Goddard

  • 09:00 - 10:00
    Keynote: Michael Paulitsch, Airbus/Thales
    Mixed-Criticality Systems - a Journey "Embedded" in Time and Space

  • 10:00 - 10:30
    Coffee Break

  • 10:30 - 12:00
    Mixed Criticality (Session Chair: Claire Pagetti)

    • 10:30 - 11:00
      Cyclic Executives, Multi-Core Platforms and Mixed Criticality Applications
      Alan Burns, Sanjoy Baruah, Tom Fleming

    • 11:00 - 11:30
      Resource Efficient Isolation Mechanisms in Mixed-Criticality Scheduling
      Xiaozhe Gu, Kieu-My Phan, Arvind Easwaran, Insik Shin

    • 11:30 - 12:00
      Mixed-Criticality Scheduling on Multiprocessors using Task Grouping
      Jiankang Ren and Linh Thi Xuan Phan

  • 12:00 - 13:30
    Lunch

  • 13:30 - 15:00
    Scheduling Network Packets (Session Chair: Christian Fraboul)

    • 13:30 - 14:00
      Hybrid EDF Packet Scheduling for Real-Time Distributed Systems - [slides]
      Tao Qian, Frank Mueller, Yunfeng Xin

    • 14:00 - 14:30
      Average and Worst-Case Latency Improvements in Mixed-Criticality Wormhole Networks-on-Chip
      Leandro Indrusiak, James Harbin, Alan Burns

    • 14:30 - 15:00
      On-line Data Link Layer Scheduling in Wireless Networked Control Systems - [slides]
      Shengyan Hong, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Tao Gong, Song Han

  • 15:00 - 15:30
    Coffee Break

  • 15:30 - 17:00
    Work In Progress, Tools, and Call for Action (Session Chair: Harini Ramaprasad)

  • 17:00 - 19:00
    Reception, Poster Session, Tool Demos

2015/07/09

  • 09:00 - 10:30
    Scheduling Analysis and Design (Session Chair: Rob Davis)

    • 09:00 - 09:30
      Integration of Cache Partitioning and Preemption Threshold Scheduling to Improve Schedulability of Hard Real-Time Systems - [slides]
      Chao Wang, Zonghua Gu, Haibo Zeng

    • 09:30 - 10:00
      Timing Analysis of Fixed Priority Self-Suspending Sporadic Tasks - [slides]
      Geoffrey Nelissen, José Fonseca, Gurulingesh Raravi, Vincent Nelis

    • 10:00 - 10:30
      Schedulability and Optimization Analysis for Non-Preemptive Static Priority Scheduling Based on Task Utilization and Blocking Factors - [slides]
      Georg von der Brüggen, Jian-Jia Chen, Wen-Hung Huang

  • 10:30 - 11:00
    Coffee Break

  • 11:00 - 12:00
    From Energy Constrained Systems to Quasi-Partitioned Scheduling (Session Chair: Nathan Fisher)

    • 11:00 - 11:30
      Worst-Case Energy Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Embedded Systems
      Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Timo Hönig, Heiko Janker, Rüdiger Kapitza, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

    • 11:30 - 12:00
      Experimental evaluation of optimal schedulers based on partitioned proportionate fairness - [slides]
      Davide Compagnin, Enrico Mezzetti, Tullio Vardanega

  • 12:00 - 13:30
    Lunch

  • 13:30 - 15:00
    Scheduling and Analysis for Embedded Systems (Session Chair: Rolf Ernst)

    • 13:30 - 14:00
      A Computation Offloading Framework for Soft Real-Time Embedded Systems
      Yuchuan Liu, Cong Liu, Xia Zhang, Wei Gao, Liang He, Yu Gu

    • 14:00 - 14:30
      Feasibility Analysis of Engine Control Tasks under EDF Scheduling
      Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo, Stefano Simoncelli

    • 14:30 - 15:00
      An Efficient Method for Assigning Harmonic Periods to Hard Real-time Tasks with Period Ranges - [slides]
      Mitra Nasri and Gerhard Fohler

  • 15:00 - 15:30
    Coffee Break

  • 15:30 - 17:00
    Managing WCET to Improve Schedulability (Session Chair: Marko Bertogna)

    • 15:30 - 16:00
      Minimizing Cache Overhead via Loaded Cache Blocks and Preemption Placement
      John Cavicchio, Corey Tessler, Nathan Fisher

    • 16:00 - 16:30
      WCET(m) Estimation in Multi-Core Systems using Single Core Equivalence - [slides]
      Renato Mancuso, Rodolfo Pellizzoni, Marco Caccamo, Lui Sha, Heechul Yun

    • 16:30 - 17:00
      Parallelism-Aware Memory Interference Delay Analysis for COTS Multicore Systems - [slides on slideshare]
      Heechul Yun, Rodolfo Pellizzoni, Prathap Kumar Valsan

  • 18:30 - 22:00
    Banquet at Luftkastellet
    Luftkastellet is a conference and exhibition place just south of Malmö. It was created during the building of the Öresund bridge to host an exhibition about the bridge project. From the building you have excellent views of the bridge and of the Öresund. After the dinner there will be possibilities to round off the evening with drink or beer in Malmö. Buses will leave from Bangatan (close to Lund Central station) at 18:30.

2015/07/10

  • 09:00 - 10:30
    Multiprocessor Scheduling (Session Chair: Rodolfo Pellizzoni)

    • 09:00 - 09:30
      An Optimal Semi-Partitioned Scheduler for Uniform Heterogeneous Multiprocessors - [slides]
      Kecheng Yang and James H. Anderson

    • 09:30 - 10:00
      Response-Time Analysis of Conditional DAG Tasks in Multiprocessor Systems - [slides]
      Alessandra Melani, Marko Bertogna, Vincenzo Bonifaci, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Giorgio Buttazzo

    • 10:00 - 10:30
      The Global EDF scheduling of systems of conditional sporadic DAG tasks - [slides]
      Sanjoy Baruah, Vincenzo Bonifaci, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela

  • 10:30 - 11:00
    Coffee Break

  • 11:00 - 12:00
    Analyzing Response Times (Session Chair: Alan Burns)

    • 11:00 - 11:30
      Probabilistic Response Time and Joint Analysis of Periodic Tasks
      Bogdan Tanasa, Unmesh D. Bordoloi, Petru Eles, Zebo Peng

    • 11:30 - 12:00
      Improved Deadline Miss Models for Real-Time Systems using Typical Worst-Case Analysis
      Wenbo Xu, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Sophie Quinton, Alexander Kröller, Rolf Ernst

  • 12:00 - 12:30
    ECRTS Future Publication Model Discussion (Session Chair: Gerhard Fohler)

  • 12:30 - 14:00
    Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:30
    Outstanding Papers (Session Chair: Steve Goddard)

    • 14:00 - 14:30
      A Bailout Protocol for Mixed Criticality Systems - [slides]
      Iain Bate, Alan Burns, Robert Davis

    • 14:30 - 15:00
      Supporting Component-based Development in Partitioned Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems
      Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo, Marko Bertogna

    • 15:00 - 15:30
      Uniprocessor Feasibility of Sporadic Tasks with Constrained Deadlines is Strongly co-NP-Complete - [slides]
      Pontus Ekberg and Wang Yi

  • 15:30 - 15:45
    Best Paper Award and Closing

  • 15:45 - onwards
    Conference After Work Session