Real-Time Systems in Emerging IoT-Embedded Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The objective of this Special Issue is the design, development, and implementation of real-time systems for emerging IoT and industrial IoT-embedded systems and their applications. Research on real-time control of time-sensitive systems has attracted great interest in recent years due to the increasing utilization of embedded control systems in the IoT and cloud. Embedded systems have made possible the realization of highly-effective controllers in many domains (smart manufacturing, smart home, smart autonomous vehicles, smart mobile devices, UAVs, etc.). The increase in implementations of such applications and their special timing requirements, in particular, for safety-critical systems, brings new challenges and issues in real-time systems. There is a need to research and propose novel efficient solutions. Therefore, we focus on real-time systems issues (e.g., efficiency, reliability, timely response, energy consumption, cost) from an architectural point of view, as well as from an operating systems perspective (e.g., real-time operating systems). There will be special emphasis on new designs and developments and their applications in various sectors (healthcare, manufacturing, industrial IoT, cloud systems, automotive, aerospace, etc.).

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

• Real-time systems and applications performance issues
• Real-time system architectures and real-time operating systems
• Real-time systems and application studies in various environments (e.g., manufacturing, IoT, cloud and edge computing, control systems, mechatronics and robotics, healthcare services)
• Emerging and future real-time systems.

Dr. George K. Adam
Guest Editor

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