Program

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December 8 Hot Topic Day
9:00–17:00 Hot Topic Day 18:00–19:30 Diversity Reception
December 9 Conference Day 1
Registration Welcome & Opening Remarks 9:25–10:30 1A: Scheduling: Theory & Applications 9:25–10:30 1B: Memory, Storage & Hardware Predictability Coffee Break 11:00–12:30 2A: LLMs & Generative Inference 11:00–12:30 2B: Shared Resources & Synchronization 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–15:30 TCRTS Award Ceremony & Award Talk Coffee Break 16:00–17:00 Brief Presentations: Work-in-Progress & Journal-First 17:00–18:00 RTSS@Work 18:00–19:30 Welcome Reception
December 10 Conference Day 2
Registration 9:00–10:30 3A: Autonomous & Embodied Systems 9:00–10:30 3B: Formal Methods & Timing Analysis Coffee Break 11:00–12:30 4A: Learning Systems for Real-Time Applications 11:00–12:30 4B: Reliability & Fault Tolerance 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–15:30 5A: GPUs & Accelerators 14:00–15:30 5B: Networking & In-Network Computing Coffee Break 16:00–17:15 Industry Panel 17:15–18:30 TCRTS Public Meeting Conference Banquet
December 11 Conference Day 3
Registration 9:00–10:30 Keynote Coffee Break 11:00–12:30 6A: Communication Middleware: ROS 2, Pub-Sub & TSN 11:00–12:30 6B: Streaming & Information Freshness 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–15:30 Outstanding Papers Closing Remarks
  • 9:00–17:00
    Hot Topic Day

    Program to be announced.

  • 18:00–19:30
    Diversity Reception

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SOCIAL EVENT
  • 8:30–9:00
    Registration

  • 9:00–9:15
    Welcome & Opening Remarks

    General Chair (conference logistics) and Program Chairs (statistics, and this year's review process) announcements.

  • 9:25–10:30

    Room A
    Session 1A: Scheduling: Theory & Applications

    • Restricted Blocking Global-EDF-Like Scheduling of Non-Preemptive Gang Tasks
      Shareef Ahmed (University of South Florida); Pritkumar Pagda (University of South Florida)
    • RAMP: Real-Time Mode Switch on Heterogeneous Platforms
      Jintao Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); An Zou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yuankai Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yinchen Ni (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yehan Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
    • Real-Time Multi-Telescope Scheduling to Search for Transient Astrophysical Phenomena Artifact Evaluated
      Daisy Wang (Washington University in St. Louis); Gregory Kehne (Washington University in St. Louis); Jeremy Buhler (Washington University in St. Louis); Filip Marković (University of Southampton); Kunal Agrawal (Washington University in St. Louis); Sanjoy Baruah (Washington University in St. Louis); Marion Sudvarg (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
    Room B
    Session 1B: Memory, Storage & Hardware Predictability

    • LaWL: Latency-aware Wear-Leveling for Real-Time NAND Flash Storage Systems
      Minjin Oh (DGIST); Sohyun Kim (DGIST); Gyeongtaek Kim (DGIST); Sungjin Lee (POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology)); Myungsuk Kim (Kyungpook National University); Hoon Sung Chwa (DGIST)
    • Guppy: an Open-source RISC-V GPGPU Core for Real-Time Systems Artifact Evaluated
      Noïc Crouzet (Université de Toulouse, IRIT); Thomas Carle (Université de Toulouse, IRIT); Christine Rochange (Université de Toulouse, IRIT)
    • JENGA: Exploiting Counter-Based RowHammer Countermeasures to Break Real-Time Predictability Artifact Evaluated
      Valentin Abgrall (Inria Rennes / IRISA lab); Maria Méndez Real (Univ. Bretagne-Sud, Lab-STICC UMR CNRS 6285, Lorient, France); Marcello Traiola (Inria / IRISA); Alessandro Palumbo (CentraleSupélec, Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA); Rubén Salvador (CentraleSupélec, IRISA, Inria); Angeliki Kritikakou (Univ. of Rennes 1, France)

  • 10:30–11:00
    Coffee Break

  • 11:00–12:30

    Room A
    Session 2A: LLMs & Generative Inference

    • RT-MoE: Real-Time Expert Management for Memory-Constrained MoE Decoding
      Ziwei Song (City University of Hong Kong); Ruoxiang Li (Shenzhen University); Fei Guan (Northeast Forestry University); Jen-Ming Wu (Hon Hai Research Institute); Jason Xue (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI); Nan Guan (City University of Hong Kong)
    • TiMoE: Timing-Predictable Inference System for MoE Large Language Models
      Shangshang Xiao (Shandong University); Wei Zhang (Shandong University); Yongxin Jiao (Shandong University); Fajun Xv (Shandong University); Naijun Zhan (Peking University & Zhongguancun Lab.); Lei Ju (Shandong University)
    • Deadline-Aware Token Scheduling for Physical-I/O LLM Agents Artifact Evaluated
      Md Ashikul Haque (University of Texas at Dallas); Abusayeed Saifullah (University of Texas at Dallas)
    • Orchestrating Test-Time Adaptation for Timely and Accurate DNN Inference
      Wonyeong Lee (Yonsei University); Seongtae Lee (Sungkyunkwan University); Seunghoon Lee (Sungkyunkwan University); Jinsoo Park (Sungkyunkwan University); Jinkyu Lee (Yonsei University)
    Room B
    Session 2B: Shared Resources & Synchronization

    • CoStressLLM: Victim-Aware LLM Synthesis for Empirical Multicore Timing Interference Analysis
      Jilu Zhang (East China Normal University); Yong Cai (East China Normal University); Weikai Miao (East China Normal University); Jiahao Ge (East China Normal University); Yi Liao (East China Normal University); Jiansheng Guan (FlyLite Aviation Technology)
    • The Priority Queue Locking Protocol
      Syed Ali (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); James Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    • HSTM: An Asymmetric Synchronization Framework for Real-Time and Best-Effort Workloads Artifact Evaluated
      Zewei Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Maolin Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Junyi Liu (Northeastern University); Xu Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Hongbiao Liu (Beijing Institute of Control Engineering); Bo Liu (Beijing Institute of Control Engineering)
    • Bottleneck-Aware Bandwidth Regulation for Heterogeneous Memory Subsystems
      Ivan Izhbirdeev (Boston University); Weifan Chen (Boston University); Heechul Yun (University of Kansas); Renato Mancuso (Boston University)

  • 12:30–14:00
    Lunch

  • 14:00–15:30
    TCRTS Award Ceremony & Award Talk

    Award presentation and award speech. Single track.

  • 15:30–16:00
    Coffee Break

  • 16:00–17:00
    Brief Presentations: Work-in-Progress & Journal-First

    Rapid talks introducing the posters and demos shown next door.

  • 17:00–18:00
    RTSS@Work

    Demo session for RTSS.

  • 18:00–19:30
    Welcome Reception

    Posters and demos are on display.

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  • 8:30–9:00
    Registration

  • 9:00–10:30

    Room A
    Session 3A: Autonomous & Embodied Systems

    • PECS: Perception-Driven End-to-End Co-Scheduling for Real-Time Control Systems
      Zitong Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jintao Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yuankai Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); An Zou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yehan Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
    • Proactive Routing and Elastic Scheduling for VLA Models in Real-Time Embodied Systems Artifact Evaluated
      Zhaomeng Deng (Peking University); Zhida An (Peking University); Yifeng Cai (Peking University); Guangyu Wu (Peking University); Xu Wang (Huawei); Yuxin Ren (Huawei); Ning Jia (Huawei); Ding Li (Peking University); Yao Guo (Peking University)
    • PAST: A Map-Localization-Navigation Scheduling for Real-Time and Throughput-Oriented Workloads in Embodied AI Systems
      Yinchen Ni (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Tianrui Ma (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Yuankai Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jintao Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yehan Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); An Zou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
    • RELAXR: Real-time Execution Framework for Latency-aware AI-native Extended Reality
      Ziliang Zhang (University of California, Riverside); Hyoseung Kim (University of California, Riverside); Cong Liu (University of California, Riverside)
    Room B
    Session 3B: Formal Methods & Timing Analysis

    • SAGA: Schedule Abstraction Graphs at GPU Speed Artifact Evaluated
      Heng Zhao (The University of British Columbia); Zhengan Zhao (University of Victoria); Arpan Gujarati (The University of British Columbia)
    • On Synthesis of Metric Interval Temporal Logics Artifact Evaluated
      Hsi-Ming Ho (University of Sussex); Shankara Narayanan Krishna (IIT Bombay); Khushraj Madnani (IIT Guwahati)
    • Mining DTA with SMT by Exploiting Simple Elementary Language and Timed Augmented Prefix Acceptor
      Ziran Wang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Jie An (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Naijun Zhan (Peking University & Zhongguancun Lab.)
    • From Estimates to Guarantees: Verified Exceedance Analysis on Commodity Hardware Artifact Evaluated
      Kimaya Bedarkar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Bite Ye (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Deepak Garg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Derek Dreyer (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Björn Brandenburg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS))

  • 10:30–11:00
    Coffee Break

  • 11:00–12:30

    Room A
    Session 4A: Learning Systems for Real-Time Applications

    • Accuracy Anomalies in Classifier Cascades Artifact Evaluated
      Sanjoy Baruah (Washington University in St. Louis); Ishrak Jahan Ratul (Texas State University); Kecheng Yang (Texas State University)
    • Real-Time Energy-Efficient Decentralized Federated Learning via Self-Improving RL-based Dynamic Quantization Artifact Evaluated
      Jun Xia (East China Normal University); Zhaorong Zhu (East China Normal University); Mingsong Chen (East China Normal University, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)
    • Real-Time Semi-Supervised Defect Detection for Edge Industrial Inspection under Sparse Annotation
      Jingshan Hong (Zhejiang University of Technology); Haigen Hu (Zhejiang University of Technology); Yuesheng Fan (Zhejiang University of Technology); Huihuang Zhang (Zhejiang University of Technology); Changjian Xiong (Zhejiang University of Technology); Xiaoqin Zhang (Zhejiang University of Technology)
    • DTRL: Reinforcement Learning Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems with Dynamic Time Requirements Artifact Evaluated
      Yufeng Yang (Washington State University); Dacheng Shen (Washington State University); Mengyu Liu (Washington State University)
    Room B
    Session 4B: Reliability & Fault Tolerance

    • CABS: Bounding the Consecutive Deadline-Failure Probability of Periodic Tasks via Backlog Sampling Artifact Evaluated
      Oleksandr Marmaliuk (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Mario Günzel (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Bite Ye (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Filip Marković (University of Southampton); Björn Brandenburg (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS))
    • RT-PreQEC: Gate Selective Decoding with Pauli-Frame-Lag-Aware Scheduling for Real-Time Quantum Error Correction Artifact Evaluated
      Yu Peng (Zhejiang University); Junyu Chen (Zhejiang University); Fanqi Kong (Zhejiang University); Ke Shi (University of Science and Technology of China); Fulun Ye (Zhejiang University); Fangming Zhao (Zhejiang University); Tingting Li (Zhejiang University); Xiaofei Yue (Beijing Institute of Technology); Zhaoxuan Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Ziming Zhao (Zhejiang University)
    • Lightweight and Tunable Soft Error Resilience for Protecting Caches and Memory against 2-Bit Errors
      Shao-Yu Huang (Purdue University); Jungi Jeong (Google); Hiroshi Sasaki (Institute of Science Tokyo); Changhee Jung (Purdue University)

  • 12:30–14:00
    Lunch

  • 14:00–15:30

    Room A
    Session 5A: GPUs & Accelerators

    • GPU-resident Execution for Timing-predictable Sensor Processing Systems
      Soham Sinha (NVIDIA); Rahul Choudhury (NVIDIA); Shekhar Dwivedi (NVIDIA); Gregory Lee (NVIDIA); Gigon Bae (NVIDIA); Anisha Goel (NVIDIA); Elena Agostini (NVIDIA); Patrick O'Grady (NVIDIA); Yosi Levi (NVIDIA); Mahdi Azizian (NVIDIA)
    • Transformer-based Performance Attribution For GPU Kernels Interference At PTX Level
      Zaineb Boukhetala (LMCS, École Supérieure d'Informatique Alger); Abderaouf Nassim Amalou (Nantes Université, École Centrale Nantes, CNRS, LS2N, UMR 6004); Sébastien Faucou (Nantes Université, École Centrale Nantes, CNRS, LS2N, UMR 6004); Amina S. Haichour (École Supérieure d'Informatique Alger); Pierre-Emmanuel Hladik (École Centrale Nantes, Nantes Université, CNRS, LS2N, UMR 6004)
    • GPU-Aware Response-Time Analysis for Holoscan Applications under CUDA Green Contexts Artifact Evaluated
      Philip Schowitz (The University of British Columbia); Shubhaankar Sharma (The University of British Columbia); Soham Sinha (NVIDIA); Arpan Gujarati (The University of British Columbia)
    • Real-Time Continual Learning on Embedded GPUs Artifact Evaluated
      Zexin Li (University of California, Riverside & Nanyang Technological University); Dongjoo Seo (University of California, Irvine); Nikil Dutt (University of California, Irvine); Jun Sheng (University of California, Riverside); Cong Liu (University of California, Riverside)
    Room B
    Session 5B: Networking & In-Network Computing

    • Arthas: Real-Time In-Network Machine Learning via Switch ASIC and SmartNIC Co-Design
      Zhifan Jiang (Zhejiang University); Longlong Zhu (Zhejiang University); Jiashuo Yu (Zhejiang University); Yuchen Xian (Zhejiang University); Xingyuan Li (Zhejiang University); Siyuan Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Xi Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Hongyan Liu (Fuzhou University); Dong Zhang (Fuzhou University); Chunming Wu (Zhejiang University); Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University)
    • TurboPlan: Taming Resource-Optimal and Timely Data Plane Offloading by Reducing Task Copies
      Linying Zheng (Zhejiang University); Jiashuo Yu (Zhejiang University); Longlong Zhu (Zhejiang University); Jitang Niu (Zhejiang University); Jialu Tian (Zhejiang University); Dezhang Kong (Zhejiang University); Hongyan Liu (Fuzhou University); Jianshan Zhang (Minjiang University); Xuan Liu (Yangzhou University); Dong Zhang (Fuzhou University); Chunming Wu (Zhejiang University); Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University)
    • BWP-Aware Real-Time Scheduling for Heterogeneous UEs in Industrial 5G Systems
      Tianyu Zhang (The University of Iowa); Subasree Balamurali (The University of Iowa); Mainak Mondal (University of Connecticut); X. Sharon Hu (University of Notre Dame); Song Han (University of Connecticut)
    • DART: Deadline-Aware Transferable Autoscaling for Real-Time IoT Microservices at the Edge
      Haogang Tong (Sun Yat-sen University); Chunyang Meng (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yang Yu (Sun Yat-sen University)

  • 15:30–16:00
    Coffee Break

  • 16:00–17:15
    Industry Panel

    Panellists to be announced. Single track.

  • 17:15–18:30
    TCRTS Public Meeting

    Open to all attendees, directly after the industry panel.

  • 19:00–21:30
    Conference Banquet

    PACIFICO Yokohama Conference Center 3F, about a 20-minute walk (1.4 km) from the conference venue.

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  • 8:30–9:00
    Registration

  • 9:00–10:30
    Keynote

    Speaker to be announced. Single track.

  • 10:30–11:00
    Coffee Break

  • 11:00–12:30

    Room A
    Session 6A: Communication Middleware: ROS 2, Pub-Sub & TSN

    • Schedulability Analysis for Pub-Sub Graphs Under Global EDF Scheduling
      Shareef Ahmed (University of South Florida); Sizhe Liu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Yiyi Wang (University of South Florida); Rohan Wagle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); James Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    • Analysis of TSN Credit-Based Shapers using the Schedule Abstraction Graph Methodology
      Srinidhi Srinivasan (Eindhoven University of Technology); Geoffrey Nelissen (Eindhoven University of Technology); Mario Günzel (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Nirvana Meratnia (Eindhoven University of Technology)
    • Reintegrating ROS 2 into RTOS: A Native Deterministic Real-Time Execution Scheme Artifact Evaluated
      Xu Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Xiantong Luo (Beijing University of Technology); Juan Fang (Beijing University of Technology); Nan Guan (City University of Hong Kong); Di Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
    Room B
    Session 6B: Streaming & Information Freshness

    • PartSR: Buffer-Aware Edge-Client Scheduling for Regional Super-Resolution in Live Streaming
      Wanxin Shi (Fudan University, East China University of Science and Technology); Yuchen Wang (The University of Hong Kong, Fudan University); Weijia Lang (Fudan University); Gengbiao Shen (Tecorigin); Yang Xu (Fudan University)
    • AoI Minimization in Rechargeable Monitoring Systems with Rate Adaptation
      Chenchen Fu (Southeast University); Zhongyu Sun (Southeast University); Sujunjie Sun (Southeast University); Xiaoxing Qiu (Southeast University); Weiwei Wu (Southeast University); Song Han (University of Connecticut)
    • PAPS: A Predictable and Adaptive Priority Scheme for Tasks with Variable Data Latency
      Nan Chen (University of York); Xiaotian Dai (University of York); Alan Burns (University of York); Iain Bate (University of York); Shuai Zhao (Sun Yat-sen University)
    • Real-Time Hard Peak Age-of-Information Safety with No-Regret Learning
      Wentao Zhang (Tsinghua University); Wentao Mo (Tsinghua University)

  • 12:30–14:00
    Lunch

  • 14:00–15:30
    Outstanding Papers

    The outstanding papers of RTSS 2026. Single track.

    • Fabricate-then-Exploit: Unified Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Arbitrary-Deadline DAG Tasks on Clustered Multicores Outstanding Paper Artifact Evaluated
      Xiangzhen Xiao (Hunan University); Weijie Wang (Hunan University); Wanli Chang (Hunan University)
    • DARTS^rt: A Real-Time MARL Framework with Bounded Auction Latency and Schedulability Outstanding Paper Artifact Evaluated
      Yifan Chen (University of California, Riverside); Cong Liu (University of California, Riverside)
    • Query-Centric Adaptive Scheduling of BEV Perception for Real-Time Autonomous Driving Outstanding Paper Artifact Evaluated
      Haobo Jia (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Xu Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Nan Guan (City University of Hong Kong); Yichen Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Xingyu Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Xin Meng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
    • ProsaBuddy: Assisting Mechanized Real-Time Schedulability Analysis with LLM-based Agents Outstanding Paper
      Junyi Liu (City University of Hong Kong, Northeastern University); Tianchi Ren (City University of Hong Kong); Fei Guan (Northeast Forestry University); Xu Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Zhe Jiang (Southeast University); Wang Yi (Uppsala University); Nan Guan (City University of Hong Kong)

  • 15:30–15:45
    Closing Remarks

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