New Trends in Real-Time Embedded Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The never-ending evolutions of the applications and of the computing platforms are exacerbating most of the existing design issues, especially because the architectures are becoming more and more specialized and heterogeneous, and the workload rather mixed. Not purely functional design requirements are driving the choices of the system’ architects and application developers, and fulfilling the crucial needs of power consumption and timing predictability is becoming very problematic, especially if the cost-effectiveness of the computing platform remains one of the major constraints. Conservative solutions are still important, but many other approaches can be sought to balance performance and cost.

This Special Issue is tackling such a problem from a cross-domain perspective, focusing on the aspects of software, hardware, and real-time theory that are mostly affecting the timing behavior of modern embedded systems.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

• New trends in schedulability/feasibility analysis (e.g., theoretical and/or applied to academic/industrial use cases) in single/multi-core scenarios with focus on performance;
• New Trends in WCET analysis and evaluation with novel methodologies (e.g., AI/ML, pWCET, new approach to WCET estimation and evaluations);
• Dynamic (partial) reconfiguration for real-time embedded systems;
• HW accelerators for system performance enhancement and power/energy-awareness for real-time systems;
• Use of AI/ML for real-time embedded systems (e.g., schedulability, partitioning, dynamic allocation/binding, system predictions and simulations);
• Real-time embedded systems simulations, emulations, and analysis;
• Novel real-time communications models and Infrastructures for single/multi-core systems;
• New trends in hypervisors and mixed-criticality systems;
• New trends for security and/or reliability for real-time embedded systems.

Prof. Dr. William Fornaciari
Dr. Luigi Pomante
Dr. Giacomo Valente
Dr. Vittoriano Muttillo
Guest Editors

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