RTN2017
RTN'2017


RTN'2017
The 15th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks

27th June, 2017, Dubrovnik, Croatia

In conjunction with the

29th Euromicro International Conference on Real-Time Systems

28-30th June, 2017, Dubrovnik, Croatia



Workshop Chairs

Jean-Luc Scharbarg
Université de Toulouse - IRIT/INPT/ENSEEIHT, France
Jean-Luc dot Scharbarg at enseeiht dot fr


Mathieu Jan
CEA LIST, France
Mathieu dot Jan at cea dot fr



Program Committee

Frédéric Ridouard
ENSMA, France

Eberle Rambo
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Paul Pop
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Leandro Soares Indrusiak
University of York, United Kingdom

Ramon Serna Oliver
TTTech, Austria

Ye-Qiong Song
LORIA, France

Jean-Dominique Decotignie
Swiss Center for Microtechnology, Switzerland

Luis Almeida
University of Porto, Portugal

Jörg Mische
Augsburg University, Germany

Moris Behnam
Mälardalen University, Sweden


Important dates

Submission deadline: 14th April 2017
Notification of acceptance: 8th May 2017
Conference and workshops early registration deadline:
12nd May, 2017
Submission of camera-ready papers:
14th May 2017

News And Updates

  • 12th May 2017: the list of accepted papers can be found here

  • 31st March 2017: the submission deadline has been extended to 14th April!

  • 1st February 2017: a keynote on TSN will be given by Lucia Lo Bello!

  • 24th November 2016: a keynote on real-time NoCs will be given by Leandro Soares Indrusiak!

  • 24th October 2016: web site opens

Workshop presentation



The Real-Time Networks (RTN) 2017 is a satellite workshop of the 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2017), the premier European venue for presenting research into the broad area of real-time and embedded systems.

The RTN workshop is the fifteenth in the series of workshops that started at the 2002 ECRTS conference. No edition took however place in 2015. To continue a new series of workshops, RTN 2017 focuses on the current technological challenges around real-time network infrastructures either between chips or on-chip (NoC). Besides, accepted papers will be published in SIGBED Review unless authors explicitly refuse in order to keep material for a later publication in a conference or journal.

The RTN workshop provides a relaxed forum for both industrial and academic participants to present and discuss new ideas, new research directions and to review current trends in the area of real-time networks and NoC. Schedule will provide significant time for discussions among the attendees.

The RTN workshop seeking regular research paper or position paper that should not exceed 6 pages. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Real-time network on chips (NoC)
  • Real-time Software Defined Networks (SDN)
  • Real-time message scheduling and mapping over off and on-chip networks (TSN, Ethernet, CAN, FlexRay, NoC, etc.)
  • Real-time applications (automotive, aerospace, multimedia, etc.): implementation, experimentation and evaluation
  • Performance evaluation, simulation and modeling tools of real-time networks (automotive, aerospace, multimedia, etc.)
  • Networked embedded systems and sensors, cyber-physical systems, internet of things
  • Real-time network management and time synchronization
  • Wireless technologies and Sensor Networks (WSNs) and applications

Workshop program


8:50 Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 Keynote talk (session chair: Jean-Luc Scharbarg)
Advances in Time-Sensitive Networking
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania.
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 SESSION 1: schedulability and timing analysis (session chair: Lucia Lo Bello)
Impact of Time-Triggered Transmission Window Placement on Rate-Constrained Traffic in TTEthernet Networks
Florian Heilmann and Gerhard Fohler
Routing Algorithms for IEEE802.1Qbv Networks
Naresh Ganesh Nayak, Frank Duerr and Kurt Rothermel
X-Lap: A Systems Approach for Cross-Layer Profiling and Latency Analysis for Cyber-Physical Networks
Stefan Reif, Andreas Schmidt, Timo Hönig, Thorsten Herfet and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Keynote talk and SESSION 2: NoC (session chair: Mathieu Jan)
Priority-based Wormhole Networks-on-Chip: challenges and opportunities
Leandro Soares Indrusiak, University of York
Traffic-aware Reconfigurable Architecture for Fault-tolerant 2D Mesh NoCs
Poona Bahrebar and Dirk Stroobandt
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 SESSION 3: flexibility and SDN (session chair: Luis Almeida)
Game-Theoretic Network Bandwidth Distribution for Self-Adaptive Cameras
Gautham Nayak Seetanadi, Luis Oliveira, Luis Almeida, Karl-Erik Arzen and Martina Maggio
Constraint-Aware Software-Defined Network for Routing Real-Time Multimedia in Multi-Path Networks
Oluwaseyi Oginni, Peter Bull and Yonghao Wang
Dependable End-to-End Delay Constraints for Real-Time Systems using SDN
Rakesh Kumar, Monowar Hasan, Smruti Padhy, Konstantin Evchenko, Lavanya Piramanayagam, Sibin Mohan and Rakesh B. Bobba
17:00 Discussion (subject to be announced)
17:45 Concluding remarks

Submission of papers

All papers will be reviewed by the workshop Program Committee and should be written in English.

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM SIGBED Review Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems unless authors explicitly refuse in order to keep material for a later publication in a conference or journal. By accepting that papers are published in the ACM SIGBED Review, authors give permission to publish and include the papers in ACM Digital Library.

Papers should not exceed 6 pages in ACM SIG format, see http://sigbed.seas.upenn.edu/submit.html. Research papers should present original research results not published or submitted for publication in other forums. Authors of accepted papers agree to attend the workshop and to present their work during the workshop.

The submission must be done through EasyChair, on this page : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtn2017

Keynote talks
  • Priority-based Wormhole Networks-on-Chip: challenges and opportunities

    Speaker: Leandro Soares Indrusiak, University of York.

    Abstract: Wormhole switching is widely used in network-on-chip (NoC) architectures due to small buffering requirements on each network router, which in turn results in low area and energy overheads. This is of key importance in multi-core and many-core processors, as the area and energy share of the on-chip interconnect itself can reach up to 30% of the area and energy used by the whole processor. However, the nature of wormhole switching allows a single packet to simultaneously acquire multiple links as it traverses the network, which can make worst-case packet latencies hard to predict. This becomes particularly severe in large and highly congested networks, where complex interference patterns become the norm.

    Different link arbitration mechanisms can result in different worst-case latency prediction models, and recent research has addressed NoCs with TDM, round-robin and priority arbitration. In this talk, I will focus on priority-preemptive wormhole NoCs. I will give a detailed account of the architectural features that can support that type of arbitration in NoCs, and will review the latest research on analytical methods aimed at predicting worst-case packet latency over such networks. I will then show opportunities and advantages of using priority-preemptive NoCs in the domains of multi-mode, mixed-criticality and secure systems, where the trade-off between flexibility and predictability that is inherent to such networks can be fully exploited.


  • Advances in Time-Sensitive Networking

    Speaker: Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania.

    Abstract: In many contexts, such as, industrial and automotive networks, for efficiency and cost reasons the time-sensitive traffic flows generated by applications requiring predictable transmission times, low latency and low jitter are mixed with flows originated from applications with less severe timing constraints. In these conditions, it is imperative to guarantee the timing behavior of time-sensitive traffic. The work within the IEEE 802.1 Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) Task Group, which is part of the IEEE 802.1 Working Group, goes into this direction. The talk will review the TSN set of standards and address some of the defined mechanisms to provide deterministic services through IEEE 802 networks, i.e., guaranteed packet transport with bounded latency, low packet delay variation, and low packet loss.
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