Fifth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel June 2-4, 1999
	Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems

 

Symposium Highlights	Hotel Information
Objectives and Scope	Conference Registration
Technical Program	Organizing Committee
Tutorials	RTAS'99 Call for Papers
Work-In-Progress Sessions	Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time        Internet Applications

Along with a diverse program of technical papers, this year's RTAS includes several venues that highlight the state-of-the-art of real-time applications and research.

Workshop:  The symposium is kicked-off with a Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet Applications coordinated by Azer Bestavros.  This workshop will bring together researchers interested in the design and implementation of novel protocols and architectures to support the requirements of applications that are subject to QoS constraints.

Tutorials:  The symposium includes four tutorials on Real-Time Java by Greg Bollella and Kelvin Nilsen, Real-Time Analysis Tools by Ben Watson and Srini Vasan, Real-Time CORBA by Jon Curry and Real-Time Communication by Wei Zhao.

Work-in-Progress Sessions:  There will be two WIP sessions throughout the symposium.  These sessions will provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback from the real-time community at large.

Objectives and Scope

The technical program for RTAS'99 is organized into nine sessions, covering various aspects of real-time systems technology and applications: namely Scheduling, Languages and Timing Constraints, Databases and Operating Systems, Real-Time Windows NT, Real-Time Middleware, Real-Time Communication, Quality ofService, and Experiences and Case Studies. In addition to these eigth technical sessions, this year's RTAS program features four tutorials on Real-Time Java, on Real-Time CORBA, on Real-Time Communication, and on Real-Time Analysis Tools.  This year's RTAS will also include special Work-In-Progress (WIP) sessions. These sessions will feature a number of short technical presentations to elicit the community's feedback on and interest in on-going research projects and system building efforts.

The Internet is increasingly being used to support a wide range of applications that are subject to QoS constraints for proper operation. This 1-day workshop preceding the RTAS'99 aims at bringing together researchers interested in the design and implementation of novel protocols and architectures to support the requirements of such applications in the context of the existing ubiquitous infrastructure of the Internet (i.e. HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP, MBone, etc.)

For more information about paper submission, please visit the Workshop web site at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtaw99/.

Real-Time Java by Greg Bollella and Kelvin Nilsen
Wed. June 2,  13:30-15:30

Real-Time Analysis Tools by Ben Watson and Srini Vasan
Wed. June 2,  18:15-19:30

Real-Time CORBA by Jon Curry
Thur. June 3,  13:30-15:30

Real-Time Communication by Wei Zhao
Fri. June 4,  8:30-10:30

RTAS'99 WIP will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems and applications. The prime purpose of this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback from the real-time community at large. Submissions on all aspects of real-time computing, applications, and systems are sought for this work-in-progress session. Of particular interest are papers exploring promising new ideas and approaches.

There will be two RTAS'99 WIP sessions held on the first two days of the conference. These sessions will consist of 10-minute presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in a special RTAS'99 WIP proceedings that will be distributed to all RTAS'99 conference participants, and will be available electronically from the IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW.

For information on submitting papers to the session, please visit the WIP web site at http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/manas/rtas99wip/

Technical Program

Tuesday June 1, 1999

• 08:00-17:00 / IEEE Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet Applications
• 17:00-19:00 / Symposium Registration and Informal Reception

Wednesday June 2, 1999

• 07:30-08:15 / Registration
• 08:15-08:30 / Opening Remarks
  • Azer Bestavros (General Chair) and Victor Fay Wolfe (Program Chair)
• 08:30-10:00 / Session I:  Scheduling
  • "Responsiveness Approach for Scheduling Fault Recovery Operations in Real-Time Systems", Pedro Mejia-Alvarez and Daniel Mosse.
  • "Adaptive Scheduling:  Overloading Scheduling for Mission Critical Systems", Paul Richardson and Susanta Sarkar.
  • "Scalable Scheduling Support for Loss and Delay Constrained Media Streams", Richard West, Karsten Schwan and Christian Poellabauer.
• 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
• 10:30-12:00 / Session II:  Case Studies I
  • "A Dynamic Real-Time Benchmark for Assessment of QoS and Resource Management Technology", Lonnie R. Welch and Behrooz A. Shirazi.
  • "Static Properties of Commercial Embedded Real-Time Programs, and Their Implication for Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis", Jakob Engblom.
  • "Implementation of a Transient-Fault-Tolerance Scheme on DEOS - A Technology Transfer from and Academic System to an Industrial", Libin Dong, Rami Melhem, Daniel Mosse, Sunondo Ghosh, Walt Heimerdinger, Aaron Larson.
• 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
• 13:30-15:30 / Tutorial:  Real-Time Java
• 15:30-16:00 / Afternoon Break
• 16:00-17:30 / Session III:  Languages and Timing Constraints
  • "Implementation of JEM - A Java Composite Event Package", Guangtian Liu and Aloysius K. Mok.
  • "Tighter Timing Predictions by Automatic Detection and Exploitation of Value-Dependent Constraints", Christopher Healy and David Whalley.
  • "Timing Constraint Remapping to Avoid Time Discontinuities in Distributed Real-Time Systems",  Minsoo Ryu, Jungkeun Park and Seongsoo Hong.
• 17:30-18:15 / Work-in-Progress Session I
• 18:15-21:00 / RTAS'99 Reception and Dinner
• 18:15-19:30 / Tutorial and Demonstration:  Real-Time Analysis Tools:

Thursday June 3, 1999

• 08:00-8:30 / Breakfast
• 8:30-10:00 / Session IV: Databases and Operating Systems
  • "MIRROR:  A State-Conscious Concurrency Control Protocol for Replicated Real-Time Databases", Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant Haritsa and John Stankovic.
  • "Portable RK:  A Portable Resource Kernel for Guaranteed and Enforced Timing Behavior", Shuichi Oikawa and Ragunathan Rajkumar.
  • "Experiences Using RT-Linux to Implement a Controller for a High Speed Magnetic Bearing System", Marty Humphrey, Edgar Hilton and Paul Allaire.
• 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
• 10:30-12:00 / SessionV: Real-Time Windows NT
  • "The Problems You are having may not be the problems you think you are hanving: Results from a Latency Study of Windows NT", Invited Presentation by Mike Jones, MicroSoft Research.
  • "Using Windows NT in Real-Time Systems", Allan Baril.
  • "Comparing Real-Time Performance of Windows NT to an NT Real-Time Extension", Kevin M. Obenland, John Kowalik, Tiffany Frazier and Jin S. Kim..
• 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
• 13:30-15:30 / Tutorial:  Real-Time CORBA
• 15:30-16:00 / Afternoon Break
• 16:00-17:30 / Session VI: Real-Time Middleware
  • "The Design and Performance of RIO", Fred Kuhns, Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine and Rajeev Bector.
  • "User Level Scheduling of Communicating Real-Time Tasks", Chia Shen, Oscar Gonzalez, Krithi Ramamritham and Ichiro Mizunuma.
  • "An End-to-End QoS Management Architecture", Mallikarjun Shankar, Miguel DeMiguel, Jane W.S. Liu.
• 17:30-18:30 / Work-in-Progress Session II
• 18:30-19:00 / Semi-Annual IEEE-CS RTS Technical Committee Meeting: Chair Doug Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Friday June 4, 1999

• 08:00-08:30 / Breakfast
• 08:30-10:00 / Tutorial:  Real-Time Communication
• 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
• 10:30-12:00 / Session VII: Real-Time Communication
  • "Statistical Real-Time Communication Over Ethernet for Manufacturing Automation Systems", Seok-Kyu Kweon, Kang G. Shin and Qin Zheng.
  • "Analyzing Multimedia Traffic in Real-Time ATM Networks", Mikael Sjodin and Hans Hansson.
  • "QDMR:  An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm", Liang Guo and Ibrahim Matta.
• 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
• 13:30-15:00 / Session VIII:  Case Studies II
  • "A Event Channel-Based Embedded Software Architecture for Developing Telemetric and Teleoperation Systems on the WWW", Jae-Chul Moon, Myung-Jin Lee and Soon-Ju Kang.
  • "General Purpose Architecture for Real-Time Feedback Control in Nuclear Fusion Experiments",  A. Luchetta and G. Manduchi.
  • "A Summary of Communication Middleware Requirements for Advanced Shipboard Computing Systems",  Mark Swick, James White and Michael Masters.
  • "Timing Analysis of the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicle Avionics",  Lorraine E. P. Rice and Albert M. K. Cheng.
• 15:00-15:30 / Afternoon Break
• 15:30-16:30 / Session IX: Quality of Service
  • "Adaptive QoS and Resource Management Using a Posteriori Workload Characterizations", Lonnie R. Welch, Paul V. Werme, Larry A. Fontenot, Michael W. Masters, Behrooz A Shirazi, Binoy Ravindran and D. Wayne Mills.
  • "On Quality of Service Optimization With Discrete QoS Options", Chen Lee.
• 16:30-16:40 / Closing Remarks

Hotel Information

The hotel guarantees the following rates for rooms:

• CND$195 for single/double rooms (equivalent to approximately US$127 based on today's exchange rate).
• To get this rate mention "IEEE RTAS'99"
• The rooms are guaranteed if reserved before May 7th.

Conference/Workshop Registration

Ms. Linda Buss
RTAS'99
E3774 - 550th Ave.
Menomonie, WI 54751
USA
Phone: 715-235-0487
Fax: (715) 235-2258 or (715) 232-6243
Email: ljbuss@win.bright.net

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(All fees in US$$)

RTAS'99 Fees	On or Before May 7	After May 7
IEEE Members	$390	$470
Non-Members	$490	$585
Full-time Students	$190	$220

Workshop Fees	On or Before May 7	After May 7
Members	$100	$120
Non-Members	$125	$150
Full-time Students	$100	$120

 

Registration can be done through electronic mail. The e-mail address is ljbuss@win.bright.net. Conference registration includes all the events of the symposium. To receive student rate, students are required to have advisor's name and signature at the time of registration.
 

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Organizing Committee

General Chair

• Azer Bestavros, Boston University

Program Committee Chair

• Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island

Publicity Chair

• Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, University of Rhode Island

Tutorials Coordinator

• Neeraj Suri, Boston University

Program Committee Members

• Alia Atlas , BBN Technologies USA
• Neil Audsley, University of York, England
• Hanene Ben-Abdallah, FSEG, Univ. de Sfax, Tunisia
• Lisa Cingiser DiPippo,University of Rhode Island, USA
• Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
• Michael Gonzalez Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
• Jorgen Hansson, University of Skovde, Sweden
• Marty Humphrey, University of VirginiaUSA
• Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, USA
• E. Douglas Jensen, MITRE Corporation, USA
• Russell Johnston, US Navy SPAWAR SYSCEN San Diego, USA
• Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, USA
• Peter Kortman, Tri-Pacific Software, USA
• Tei-Wei Kuo, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
• Jane Liu,University Of Illinois USA
• Douglass Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
• Peter H. Mills, Applied Research Associates, Inc., USA
• Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Susan Nagy, EMC Corp., USA
• Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Manas Saksena,Concordia University, Canada
• Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, USA
• Anoop Singhal, AT&T Labs, USA
• Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA
• Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA