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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Sixth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium
OMNI Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C.
May 30 - June 2, 2000
Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Real-Time Systems
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Preliminary Program And Call For Participation
http://rtas.eng.ohio-state.edu
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Symposium Highlights
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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.
Tutorials: The symposium includes three tutorials on (i) Quality of
Service in IP Networks by Roch Guerin, (ii) Voice over IP by Henning
Schulzrinne, and (iii) Web Caching and Multimedia Streaming on the
Internet by Sanjoy Paul.
Keynote speech: Dr. Janos Sztipanovits of DARPA/ITO will deliver
the keynote speech entitled "Software for Embedded Systems:
Opportunities and Challenges."
Industry exhibition and demos: The symposium includes an industrial
exhibition chaired by Dr. Doug Locke of TimeSys Corporation.
Panel discussion: One panel entitled "Building a University and
Industry Partnership in the Research and Development of Real Time
Embedded Systems" will be organized by Prof. Lui Sha of University of
Illinois.
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. See http://rtas.eng.ohio-state.edu/
for information regarding submission of extended abstracts.
Nine paper sessions (in a single track, 3 full day format) featuring
state-of-the-art research results: including real-time system design,
system modeling and verification, scheduling, CORBA, QoS support in
operating systems, QoS management, network QoS, intrusion detection.
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Objectives and Scope
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The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium brings together
real-time system developers and researchers from academia, industry and
government to present the latest advances in real-time systems research,
and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions
adopted. An exciting program that fosters discussions and technical
exchanges is planned, including tutorials, panel discussions, full-paper
presentations and work-in-progress sessions.
The technical program for RTAS'00 is organized into nine sessions,
covering various aspects of real-time systems technology and applications:
namely real-time system design, system modeling and verification,
scheduling, CORBA, QoS support in operating systems, QoS management,
network QoS, intrusion detection. In addition to these nine technical
sessions, this year's RTAS program features one keynote speech by Dr.
Janos Sztipanovits on "Software for Embedded Systems: Opportunities and
Challenges;" three tutorials on quality of service in IP networks (Dr.
Roch Guerin), voice over IP (Henning Schulzrinne), and web caching and
multimedia streaming on the Internet (Dr. Sanjoy Paul), respectively; and
one panels on the rendezvous of industry and academia in real-time
research. This year's RTAS will also include two 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.
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Tutorials (see http://rtas.eng.ohio-state.edu or below for more
========= details about tutorials)
Quality of Service in IP Networks by Dr. Roch Guerin, University of Penn.
Tuesday May 30, 8:30am - 12:30pm
Voice over IP by Dr. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
Tuesday May 30, 8:30am - 5:30pm
Web Caching and Multimedia Streaming on the Internet by Sanjoy Paul,
Edgix Corporation, Tuesday May 30, 1:30pm - 5:30pm
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Industry Exhibition and Demos
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RTAS'00 will include an industrial exhibition in a centrally located
space, for vendors to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems, development
tools and applications; where RTAS attendees can engage in technical
discussions with product engineers and developers; and where company
representatives meet (and recruit) young researchers specializing in
real-time and embedded systems. To reserve space for the exhibition,
contact the RTAS'00 Industrial Chair, Dr. Doug Locke (mailto:
cdlocke@stny.lrun.com), or check the RTAS'00 Industrial Exhibition
webpage:
http://rtas.eng.ohio-state.edu/industry_exhibition.html
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Work-in-Progress Sessions
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(accepting submissions until April 7)
RTAS'00 Work in Progress will be devoted to the presentation of new and
on-going projects in real-time systems and applications, with an emphasis
on network QoS. 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'00 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'00 WIP proceedings that will be distributed to all RTAS'00
conference participants, and will be available electronically from the
IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW.
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Technical Program
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Tuesday May 30, 2000
* 08:30-17:30 / Tutorials
* 17:00-19:00 / Symposium Registration and Informal Reception
Wednesday May 31, 2000
* 08:00-08:30 / Registration
* 08:30-09:00 / Opening Remarks
o Kang G. Shin (General Chair) and Jennifer C. Hou (Program
Chair)
* 09:00-10:00 / Keynote Speech
o Dr. Janos Sztipanovits, DARPA/ITO
Software for Embedded Systems: Opportunities and Challenges
* 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
* 10:30-12:00 /Session I: Scheduling
o "Efficient On-Line Schedulability Tests for Priority Driven
Real-Time Systems," Tei-Wei Kuo, Yu-Hua Liu (National
Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan), Kwei-Jay Lin (Univ. of
California, Irvine)
o "Scheduling Distributed Real-Time Tasks in the DGMF Model,"
Deji Chen (Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc), Al Mok (Univ. of
Texas, Austin), Sanjoy Baruah (Univ of North Carolina)
o "Real-Time Disk Scheduling in a Mixed-Media File System,"
Peter Bosch, Sape J. Mullender (CWI and Univ. of Twente,
Netherlands)
* 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
* 13:30-15:00 / Session II: Real-Time System Design
o "An Engineering Approach to Determining Sampling Rates for
Switches and Sensors in Real-Time Systems," David
B. Stewart, Melissa Moy (University of Maryland)
o "Bounding Worst Case Garbage Collection Time for Embedded
Real-Time Systems," Taehyoun Kim, Naehyuck Chang, Heonshik
Shin (Seoul National University, Korea)
o "An Approach for Supporting Software Partitioning and Reuse
in Integrated Modular Avionics," Mohamed Younis, Mohamed
Aboutabl (Honeywell International Inc.), Daeyoung Kim
(Univ. of Florida)
* 15:00-15:30 / Afternoon Break
* 15:30-17:00 / Session III: QoS Support in Operating Systems
o "Chocolate: A Reservation-Based Real-Time Java Environment
on Windows/NT," Dionisio de Niz, Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie
Mellon University)
o "The Performance Trade-offs of Implementing a Large Scale
Real-time Application Using the Windows NT Operating System,"
Kevin M. Obenland, Lowell Rosen (Mitre Corporation)
o "KURT Linux Support for Distributed Fine-Grained Synchronous
Computations," Sean B House,Douglas Niehaus (Univ. of Kansas)
* 17:00-18:00 / Work-in-Progress Session I
* 18:15-21:00 / RTAS'2000 Reception and Dinner
Thursday June 1, 2000
* 08:00-8:30 / Breakfast
* 8:30-10:00 / Session IV: Network QoS
o "Achieving Real-Time Communication over Ethernet with
Adaptive Traffic Smoothing," Seok-Kyu Kweon (Cisco Systems,
Inc), Kang G. Shin (Univ. of Michigan), Gary Workman
(General Moters Tech. Center)
o "SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast,"
Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta (Boston Univ.)
o "Design and Implementation of a Caching System for Streaming
Media over the Internet," Ethendranath Bommaiah, Katherine
Guo, Markus Hofmann, Sanjoy Paul (Bell Labs, Lucent)
* 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
* 10:30-12:00 / Panel
o Building a University and Industry Partnership in the
Research and Development of Real Time Embedded Systems
* 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
* 13:30-15:00 / Session V: System Intrusion Detection and Verification
o "Intrusion Detection in Real-time Database Systems Via Time
Signatures," Victor C. S. Lee (City University of Hong
Kong), John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son (Univ. of Virginia)
o "Formal Verification of the MetaH Executive Using Linear
Hybrid Automata," Steve Vestal (Honeywell Technology Center)
o "Dynamic Optimization for Real-Time Rule-Based Systems using
Predicate Dependency," Yun-Hong Lee, Albert Mo Kim Cheng
(Univ. of Huston)
* 15:00-15:30 / Afternoon Break
* 15:30-16:30 / Work-in-Progress Session II
* 16:30-17:30 / Session VI: Scheduling II
o "Voltage-Switching Scheduling Algorithms for Low Power in
Hard Real-Time Systems," C. M. Krishna (Univ. of Mass.),
Yann-Hang Lee (Univ. of Florida)
o "Efficient Scheduling of Real-Time Multi-Task Applications
in Dynamic Systems," Giuseppe Lipari (University of Pisa,
Italy), Sanjoy K. Baruah (Univ. of North Carolina)
Friday June 2, 2000
* 08:00-08:30 / Breakfast
* 08:30-10:00 / Session VII: CORBA
o "Integrating Subscription-based and Connection-oriented
Communications into the Embedded CORBA for the CAN Bus,"
Kimoon Kim, Gwangil Jeon, Seongsoo Hong (Seoul National
Univ., Korea), Tae-Hyung Kim (Hanyang Univ., Korea),
Sunil Kim (Hong-Ik Univ., Korea)
o "Evaluating Policies and Mechanisms for Supporting
Embedded, Real-Time Applications with CORBA 3.0,"
Carlos O'Ryan, Doug Schmidt (Univ. of California, Irvine),
Fred Kuhns, Marina Spivak, Jeff Parsons, Irfan Pyarali and
David Levine (WUSL)
o "Integration of CORBA Services with a Dynamic Real-time
Architecture," Andreas Polze, Janek Schwarz (Humboldt
University of Berlin), Kristopher Wehner, Lui Sha (Univ. of
Illinois)
* 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
* 10:30-12:30 / Session VIII: QoS Management
o "An Automated Profiling Subsystem for QoS-Aware Services,"
Tarek F. Abdelzaher (Univ. of Virginia)
o "Policing Offloaded," Uwe Dannowski, Hermann Hrtig (Dresder
Univ. of Technology, Germany)
o "Dynamic Class-Based Queue Management for Scalable Media Servers,"
Aaron Striegel, Manimaran Govindarasu (Iowa State Univ.)
o "Bandwidth Guarantee in a Distributed Multimedia File System
Using Network Attached Autonomous Disks," Cuneyt Akinlar
(Univ. of Maryland), Sarit Mukherjee (Panasonic Technologies, Inc.)
* 12:30-14:00 / Lunch
* 14:00-15:00 / Session IX: System Modeling and Analysis
o "Cell Loss Analysis for Some Novel Priority Queues,"
Andras Racz (Ericsson Ltd., Hungary)
o "Response Time Analysis under Errors for CAN," Sasi
Punnekkat, Hans Hansson, Christer Norstrm (Malardalen
University, Sweden)
* 15:00-15:15 / Closing Remarks
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Hotel Information
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The Conference will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, one of
Washington's premier hotels. The Omni Shoreham is located on eleven
picturesque acres in Rock Creek Park, at 2500 Calvert Street, NW (between
Connecticut Avenue and 28th Street). It is one hundred yards from the
Woodley Park Metro station (on the Red Line) and only minutes from the
Smithsonian museums, the White House, Capitol Hill, the Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts, the boutiques of Georgetown, and the exotic energy of
Adams Morgan. For more information contact the hotel at the address below
or visit it on the Web at
http://www.eng.umd.edu/rtas2000/local/hotel.shtml
The hotel guarantees the following rates for rooms:
* $139/day + tax for single/double rooms.
* To get this rate mention "IEEE RTAS'00"
* The rooms are guaranteed if reserved before May 10th.
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert St., NW
Washington D.C., 20008
Phone: (202) 234-0700
Fax: (202) 265-5333
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Conference Registration
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Detailed Description of Keynote Speech
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Title: Software for Embedded Systems: Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Janos Sztipanovits, DARPA/ITO
Abstract:
One of the most pervasive applications of computing is information
processing tightly integrated with physical processes. Embedded
information processing rapidly takes over the role of being a universal
integrator for physical systems. This trend is based on a fundamental
technical reason: information processing is uniquely suitable for
controlling and implementing complex interactions among physical system
components. From the point of view of the surrounding physical processes,
an embedded information system is "just another physical process" with
physical characteristics such as dynamics, noise, fault behavior,
reliability, size, power, etc. The embedded software provides the method
for customizing a "programmable physical device" so as to satisfy the
required physical characteristics. The talk will address the primary
challenges facing designers of embedded software and systems: (1) the lack
of composability for physical characteristics, (2) the difficulty of
adapting embedded software to changes in the physical environments and (3)
the lack of technology for designing networked embedded system
applications with rapidly changing structure.
Brief bio:
Dr. Sztipanovits is a program manager at DARPA-ITO. He is responsible for
the management of the Autonomous Negotiating Teams and Model-Based
Integration of Embedded Software programs. Dr. Sztipanovits is an IPA
from Vanderbilt University, where he is E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished
Professor of Engineering and founding director of the Institute for
Software Integrated Systems. His primary research interest is software and
systems engineering issues of embedded information systems, structurally
adaptive systems and model-integrated computing. His work has been applied
and fielded in several major aerospace and manufacturing industry
projects. He has published over 130 papers, he is the co-author of two
books and seven international patents.
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Detailed Description of Tutorials
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1. Quality of Service in IP Networks
Roch Guerin, University of Pennsylvania (half day)
This tutorial provides an overview of service differentiation technology
for IP networks. The first part of the tutorial is an overview of basic
mechanisms and principles for supporting QoS. These include data path
mechanisms (e.g., policing, scheduling, and buffer management), control
path mechanisms (e.g., signaling and call admission), and policy issues.
The second part of the tutorial describes current standard activities and
protocols that build on those principles to enable the deployment of
service differentiation in IP networks. These comprise IntServ and
DiffServ IETF efforts to define and deploy several services varying in
degree of quality assurance.
Brief bio:
Roch Guerin received the Diplome d'Ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, in 1983, and his M.S.
and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, both in Electrical
Engineering, in 1984 and 1986 respectively. He joined the department of
Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, where he
is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications Networks and
the director of the Telecommunications and Networking Professional Masters
program. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, he had been with
IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York,
where he was the Manager of the Network Control and Services department
prior to his departure. His current research interests are in the general
area of Quality-of-Service support in high- speed networks, and in
particular QoS routing, scheduling, and buffer management mechanisms. He
is also interested in service verification issues and service aggregation
techniques for scalable service deployment. Dr. Guerin has been an editor
for several leading publications in the communications area, has served on
the program committees of many conferences, and is active in professional
societies. His email address is guerin@ee.upenn.edu.
2. Voice Over IP
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University (full day)
This tutorial describes the motivation, technologies and remaining
problems of providing telephone-like services over IP networks. The major
components needed to construct VoIP services are described, including
signaling (e.g., H.323, SIP and MGCP), QoS assurance (discussed briefly),
multimedia transport (e.g., using RTP/RTCP), audio/video compression and
billing and operational issues. Possible architectures for an Internet
telephony system are described with examples of an IP centrex or campus-
level service. Important regulatory and service design issues will be
outlined.
Brief bio:
Henning Schulzrinne received his undergraduate degree in economics and
electrical engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt,
Germany, his MSEE degree as a Fulbright scholar from the University of
Cincinnati, Ohio in 1987 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1992. He was a member of
technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill and an associate
department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin), before joining the Computer Science
and Electrical Engineering departments at Columbia University, New York in
1996. His research interests encompass real-time, multimedia network
services in the Internet and modeling and performance evaluation. Dr.
Schulzrinne is an editor of several leading publications, is active in
technical committees of the IEEE and in top research conferences. He is
currently serving as a member of the IAB (Internet Architecture Board).
Protocols co-developed by him are now Internet standards, used by almost
all Internet telephony and multimedia applications. His e-mail address is
schulzrinne@cs.columbia.edu.
3. Web Caching and Multimedia Streaming on the Internet
Sanjoy Paul, Edgix Corporation (half day)
Web caching pushes content closer to the end-user in order to avoid the
congested Internet backbone. Caches are being deployed by ISPs as well as
Corporations at the edges of the network as storage devices for content.
There are many efforts to use the same caches for intelligently storing
portions of media files to improve the overall quality of streaming in the
Internet. This tutorial will provide a timely overview of both the best
practice in web caching and stand-alone and distributed web caching
architectures, web switching and load the state-of-the-art research in
multimedia streaming. Topics covered include balancing strategies, and
streaming architectures. Case studies of commercial efforts in this area
will be presented.
Brief bio:
Sanjoy Paul (M'92-SM'97) received a B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur, India, followed by M.S and Ph.D. degrees from
University of Maryland, College Park, in 1988 and 1992 respectively. On
completing his graduate studies he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Remaining at Bell Laboratories (now in Lucent Technologies) until
recently, he conducted networking software research as a distinguished
member of technical staff. Currently, Dr. Paul is the Vice President of
Technology in Edgix Corporation where he is the principal architect for
the next- generation content-distribution products and services. His
research interests include content distribution, caching; multimedia
streaming; multicasting; transport, network, and link-layer protocol
issues; formal methods; security; and mobile networking. Dr. Paul holds
nine U.S. patents, has published widely in international conferences and
journals, and has been on the program committees of several IEEE
conferences. He is the author of the book "Multicasting on the Internet
and its Applications", published by Kluwer Academic Press in 1998. His
e-mail address is sanjoy@edgix.com.
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