OSPERT 2018

14th annual workshop on

Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time applications

July 3, 2018. Barcelona, Spain
held in conjunction with

Important Links:

Call for contributions [TXT|PDF]

Contribution formats & details

Submission instructions

Workshop Chairs:

Heechul Yun
University of Kansas

Adam Lackorzynski
TU Dresden / Kernkonzept

Program Committee:

Marcus Völp
Université du Luxembourg

Robert Kaiser
RheinMain University of Applied Sciences

Michael Engel
Coburg University of Applied Sciences

Michal Sojka
Czech Technical University in Prague

Gabriel Parmer
George Washington University

Olaf Spinczyk
Technische Universität Dortmund

Hyoseung Kim
University of California Riverside

Renato Mancuso
Boston University

Andrea Bastoni
SYSGO AG

Juri Lelli
Redhat

Daniel Lohmann
Leibniz Universität Hannover

Euiseong Seo
Sungkyunkwan University

ABOUT

OSPERT 2018 is a satellite workshop of the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018), the premier European venue for presenting research into the broad area of real-time and embedded systems. OSPERT is open to all topics related to providing a reliable operating environment for real-time and embedded applications.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Kai Lampka, Elektrobit Automotive GmbH

Dr. Michael Paulitsch, Intel

PROCEEDINGS

The full proceedings of OSPERT2018 may be downloaded from here

PROGRAM

(Electronic calendars: iCal, Google)

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:00 Keynote #1

• Mastering Security and Resource Sharing with future High Performance Controllers: A perspective from the Automotive Industry
  Dr. Kai Lampka, Elektrobit Automotive GmbH

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session I: RTOS Implementation and Evaluation

• Deterministic Futexes Revisited [slides]
  Alexander Züpke and Robert Kaiser

• Implementation and Evaluation of Multi-Mode Real-Time Tasks under Different Scheduling Algorithms [slides]
  Anas Toma, Vincent Meyers and Jian-Jia Chen

• Jitter Reduction in Hard Real-Time Systems using Intra-task DVFS Techniques
  Bo-Yu Tseng and Kiyofumi Tanaka

• Examining and Support Multi-Tasking in EV3OSEK [slides]
  Nils Hölscher, Kuan-Hsun Chen, Georg von der Brüggen and Jian-Jia Chen

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Keynote #2

• On safety and real-time in embedded operating systems using modern processor architectures in different safety-critical applications [slides]
  Dr. Michael Paulitsch, Intel

14:30-15:00 Session II: Best Paper

• Levels of Specialization in Real-Time Operating Systems [slides]
  Björn Fiedler, Gerion Entrup, Christian Dietrich and Daniel Lohmann

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session III: Shared Memory and GPU

• Verification of OS-level Cache Management [slides]
  Renato Mancuso and Sagar Chaki

• The case for Limited-Preemptive scheduling in GPUs for Real-Time Systems [slides]
  Roy Spliet and Robert Mullins

• Scaling Up: The Validation of Empirically Derived Scheduling Rules on NVIDIA GPUs [slides]
  Joshua Bakita, Nathan Otterness, James H. Anderson and F. Donelson Smith

• Evaluating Memory Subsystem of Configurable Heterogeneous MPSoC [slides]
  Ayoosh Bansal, Rohan Tabish, Giovani Gracioli, Renato Mancuso, Rodolfo Pellizzoni and Marco Caccamo

17:00-17:05 Closing Remarks

SCOPE

Developers of embedded RTOSs are faced with many challenges arising from two opposite needs: on the one hand there is a need for extreme resource usage optimization (processor cycles, energy, network bandwidth, etc.), and an the other hand there are also increasing demands in terms of scalability, flexibility, isolation, adaptivity, reconfigurability, predictability, serviceability, and certifiability, to name a few. Further, while special-purpose RTOSs continue to be used for many embedded applications, real-time services are also increasingly introduced and used in general-purpose operating systems, and market pressures continue to blur the lines between the two formerly distinct classes of operating systems. Notable examples are the various flavors of real-time Linux that support time-sensitive applications, the emergence of commercial and open-source real-time hypervisors, as well as the growth in features and scope of embedded OS and middleware specifications such as AUTOSAR.

OSPERT’18 is dedicated to the advances in RTOS technology required to address these trends. As such, areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Case studies and experience reports
• Consolidation of real-time and best-effort work on embedded platforms
• Certification and verification of RTOSs and middleware
• Coordinated management of multiple resources
• Dynamic reconfiguration and upgrading
• Empirical comparisons and evaluations of RTOSs
• Flexible processor, memory, and I/O scheduling
• Interaction with reconfigurable hardware
• Operating system standards (e.g., AUTOSAR, ARINC, POSIX, etc.)
• Power and energy management
• Quality of Service guarantees
• Real-time Linux variants
• Real-time virtualization and hypervisors
• RTOSs for manycore platforms
• Scalability, from very small scale embedded systems to full-fledged RTOSs
• Security and fault tolerance for embedded real-time systems
• Support for multiprocessor architectures
• Support for component-based development

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS [TXT|PDF]

OSPERT is a forum for researchers and engineers working on (and with) Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSs) to present recent advances in RTOS technology, to promote new and existing initiatives and projects, and to identify and discuss the challenges that lie ahead. The workshop, now in its eleventh year, provides the RTOS community with an opportunity to meet, to exchange ideas, to network, and to discuss future directions.

OSPERT’18 strives for an inclusive and diverse program and solicits a range of varied contributions. To this end, the following types of submissions are sought:

1. proposals for technical presentations (including talks on open problems, demos & tutorials, calls to action, etc.);
2. proposals for reports on empirical experiments (including replication studies, preliminary experiments, and experience reports); and
3. technical papers (short papers and full workshop papers).

The submission of a full paper is not required to present work at OSPERT. See the detailed description of the different types of contributions and the submission instructions for details.

Further information:

• Contribution formats & details
• Submission instructions

Template by Andreas Viklund