Real-Time Systems

August 2020

Best Paper

Sims Hill Osborne, Shareef Ahmed, Saujas Nandi, and James Anderson won the best paper award at RTCSA for their paper “Exploiting Simultaneous Multithreading in Priority-Driven Hard Real-Time Systems.”

July 2019

Dissertation Defense

Ming Yang successfully defended his dissertation, “Sharing GPUs for Real-Time Autonomous-Driving Systems.” Congratulations Ming!

November 2019

Best Paper

Clara Hobbs, Peter Tong, and James Anderson won the best paper award at RTNS for their paper “Optimal Soft Real-Time Semi-Partitioned Scheduling MadeSimple (And Dynamic).”

January 2019

Dissertation Defense

Namhoon Kim successfully defended his dissertation, “Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Criticality Provisioning in Multicore Real-Time Systems.” Congratulations Namhoon!

December 2018

Technical Achievement and Leadership Award

James Anderson was honored with the Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems during RTSS.

October 2018

Best Paper

Namhoon Kim, Stephen Tang, Nathan Otterness, James Anderson, Don Smith, and Don Porter won the best paper award at RTNS for their paper “Supporting I/O and IPC via Fine-Grained OS Isolation for Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Tasks.”

July 2018

Best Paper

Catherine Nemitz, Tanya Amert, and James Anderson won the best paper award at ECRTS for their paper “Using Lock Servers to Scale Real-Time Locking Protocols: Chasing Ever-Increasing Core Counts.”

June 2018

Dissertation Defense

Kecheng Yang successfully defended his dissertation, “Real-Time Scheduling on Asymmetric Multiprocessor Platforms.” Congratulations Kecheng!

December 2017

Best Presentation

Tanya Amert won the best presentation award at RTSS for presenting the paper “GPU Scheduling on the NVIDIA TX2: Hidden Details Revealed.”

October 2017

Best Student Paper

Catherine Nemitz, Tanya Amert, and James Anderson won the best student paper award at RTNS for their paper “Real-Time Multiprocessor Locks with Nesting: Optimizing the Common Case.”

August 2016

Dissertation Defense

Bryan Ward successfully defended his dissertation, “Sharing Non-Processor Resources in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems.” Congratulations Bryan!

June 2016

Dissertation Defense

Zhishan Guo successfully defended his dissertation, “Real-Time Scheduling of Mixed-Critical Workloads Upon Platforms with Uncertainties.” Congratulations Zhishan!

April 2016

Best Student Paper

Namhoon Kim, Bryan Ward, Micaiah Chisholm, Cheng-Yang Fu, James Anderson, and Don Smith won a best student paper award at RTAS for their paper “Attacking the One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem by Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Criticality Provisioning.”

July 2015

Car Project on TV

Our research project about future cars was shown on TV. WNCN link: UNC explores future of transportation.

April 2015

Dissertation Defense

Bipasa Chattopadhyay successfully defended her dissertation, “Integrating Pragmatic Constraints and Behaviors Into Real-Time Scheduling Theory.” Congratulations Bipasa!

March 2015

Dissertation Defense

Glenn Elliott successfully defended his dissertation, “Real-Time Scheduling of GPU’s with Applications in Advanced Automotive Systems, ” and has accepted a job at Tesla Motors. Congratulations Glenn!

January 2015

GPUSync

GPUSync: A Framework for Real-Time GPU Management has been released. GPUSync extends the LITMUS^RT Linux kernel patch to support a myriad of reconfigurable and adaptive multi-GPU scheduling algorithms.

January 2015

RTAS Program Chair

James Anderson serves as the Program Chair for the 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium.

January 2015

TCRTS Vice Chair

James Anderson has been named the Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. Congratulations!

January 2015

Dagstuhl Seminar

Sanjoy Baruah is organizing the Dagstuhl Seminar on Mixed Criticality on Multicore/Manycore Platforms.

January 2015

RTCSA 2015

James Anderson serves as the General Co-Chair for the 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2015).

December 2014

Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award

Sanjoy Baruah received the 2014 IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. Congratulations Sanjoy!

October 2014

Best Presentation

Bipasa Chattopadhyay won the best presentation award at RTNS for presenting the paper “Limited-Preemption Scheduling on Multiprocessors.” (co-authored with Sanjoy Baruah).

August 2014

Outstanding Paper

James Anderson, Jeremy Erickson, Umamaheswari Devi, Ben Casses won an outstanding paper award at RTCSA for their paper “Optimal Semi-Partitioned Scheduling in Soft Real-Time Systems.”

July 2014

Dissertation Defense

Jeremy Erickson successfully defended his dissertation, “Managing Tardiness Bounds and Overload in Soft Real-Time Systems, ” and has accepted a job at Google. Congratulations Jeremy!

December 2013

ACM Fellow

James Anderson has been named an ACM Fellow. Congratulations Jim!

July 2013

Outstanding Paper

Bryan Ward, Jonathan Herman, Chris Kenna, and Jim Anderson won an outstanding paper award at ECRTS for their paper “Making Shared Caches More Predictable on Multicore Platforms.”

July 2013

Dissertation Defense

Cong Liu successfully defended his dissertation, “Efficient Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Complex Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems,” and has accepted a job as a tenure-track professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Congratulations Cong!

July 2013

Kenan Distinguished Professor

Jim Anderson has been named a Kenan Distinguished Professor. Congratulations Jim!

April 2013

Dissertation Defense

Haohan Li successfully defended his dissertation, “Scheduling Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Systems,” and has accepted a job at Mathworks. Congratulations Haohan!

February 2013

Distinguished Dissertation Award

Recent graduate Björn Brandenburg received another award for his dissertation, the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award.

December 2012

Distinguished Dissertation Award

Recent graduate Björn Brandenburg received the 2012 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering for his dissertation.

November 2012

Sanjoy Baruah named IEEE Fellow

Sanjoy Baruah has been named an IEEE Fellow. Congratulations Sanjoy!

August 2012

Real-Time Linux Workshop

The 14th Real-Time Linux Workshop, which will be hosted at UNC by the Real-Time Systems Group, is only two and a half months away!

July 2012

Best Paper Award

Jeremy Erickson and James H. Anderson won the best paper award for their paper entitled “Fair Lateness Scheduling: Reducing Maximum Lateness In G-EDF-Like Scheduling” at the 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems in Pisa, Italy. Congratulations!

January 2012

Distinguished Dissertation Award

Recent graduate Björn Brandenburg received the Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering for his dissertation.

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