Topic of Interest

The 31st edition of RTCSA will bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry to promote cross-fertilization and discuss advances and trends in the technology of embedded and real-time systems and their emerging applications, including the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. RTCSA 2025 seeks papers that describe original research in the following areas, but are not limited to:

*** REAL-TIME SYSTEMS TRACK ***

    Real-Time scheduling
    Timing analysis
    Workload models for real-time systems
    Temperature/Energy-aware scheduling
    Scheduling and resource management in heterogeneous architectures
    Scheduling over distributed architectures
    Formal methods for temporal guarantees
    Programming languages and run-time systems
    Analyzing, understanding, and improving timing predictability of middlewares (ROS, Ray, Kubernete, …)
    Communication networks and protocols for real-time systems
    Time-sensitive media processing and transmissions
    Latency and throughput in real-time databases
    Real-time machine learning
    Learning-enabled real-time systems
    Learning-assisted real-time systems

*** IoT, CPS, AND EMERGING APPLICATIONS TRACK ***

    Systems, technology and foundations of IoT and CPS
    Applications and case studies of IoT and CPS
    Smart and connected health
    Industrial internet and industry 4.0
    Smart city technology and applications
    Smart transportation and infrastructure
    Cyber-physical co-design
    Cloud, middleware and networks for IoT and CPS
    Wireless sensor-actuator networks for IoT and CPS
    Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) for IoT
    Emerging IoT protocols and network abstractions including 5G/6G
    Medical CPS
    CPS software/system engineering

*** EMBEDDED SYSTEMS TRACK ***

    Multi-core embedded systems
    Operating systems
    Compiler and embedded software
    Embedded system design tools and methodologies
    Non-volatile memory and storage
    Power/Thermal aware design
    Fault tolerance, reliability and security
    Sensor-based systems and applications
    Embedded Systems for Machine-Learning
    Reconfigurable computing architectures and software support
    Ubiquitous and distributed embedded systems and networks