Real-Time Systems - Call for Papers: From Cache and Memory Management to WCET Analysis
Motivations
It is essential that safety-critical real-time systems meet timing requirements. The management of shared resources within these systems, such as cache and memory, plays an increasingly important role in making workload timing behaviors more predictable and improving resource efficiency as well as quality of service of the overall system.
Objectives
The goal of this special issue is to collect new ideas, methodologies, and techniques on cache and/or memory management for increasing the time predictability and resource efficiency of real-time systems, as well as timing analysis of such systems.
Submissions to this special issue must address some form of cache/memory or timing analysis aspects of real-time systems with the aim of providing timing guarantees. Theoretical papers, and papers considering exclusively empirical validation of timing requirements are welcome. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts or extended ones from conference publications on topics including, but not limited to:
- Cache partitioning
- Cache interference analysis
- Task and memory mapping/allocation
- Timing analysis and WCET analysis
- Communication analysis and timing guarantees
- Store buffers and timing anomalies
Important dates
Submission deadline: January 31, 2024
Guest Editors
Zhishan Guo is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University. He received a Ph. D. degree from UNC- Chapel Hill in 2016. His research interests lie in real-time scheduling theory, machine learning theory, and their applications to Cyber-Physical Systems.
Marc Boyer received the Engineering degree in computer science from Toulouse INP-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, in 2001.
Submission Guidelines
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Real-Time Systems website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/time/default2.aspx (this opens in a new tab) and select “Cache/Memory Management and WCET Analysis" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at RTNS 2023 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of RTNS 2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.