5. RTAS 1999: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'99), 2-4 June, 1999, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. IEEE Computer Society, online publication: http://computer.org/proceedings/rtas/0194/0194toc.htm

Session I: Scheduling

Pedro Mejía-Alvarez, Daniel Mossé:
A Responsiveness Approach for Scheduling Fault Recovery in Real-Time Systems. 4-13
Paul Richardson, Susanta Sarkar:
Adaptive Scheduling: Overload Scheduling for Mission Critical Systems. 14-23
Richard West, Karsten Schwan, Christian Poellabauer:
Scalable Scheduling Support for Loss and Delay Constrained Media Streams. 24-

Session II: Case Studies I

Lonnie R. Welch, Behrooz Shirazi:
A Dynamic Real-Time Benchmark for Assessment of QoS and Resource Management Technology. 36-45
Jakob Engblom:
Static Properties of Commercial Embedded Real-Time Programs, and Their Implication for Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis. 46-55
Libin Dong, Rami G. Melhem, Daniel Mossé, Sunondo Ghosh, Walter L. Heimerdinger, Aaron Larson:
Implementation of a Transient-Fault-Tolerance Scheme on DEOS - A Technology Transfer from an Academic System to an Industrial System. 56-

Session III: Languages and Timing Constraints

Guangtian Liu, Aloysius K. Mok:
Implementation of JEM - A Java Composite Event Package. 68-78
Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley:
Tighter Timing Predictions by Automatic Detection and Exploitation of Value-Dependent Constraints. 79-88
Minsoo Ryu, Jungkeun Park, Seongsoo Hong:
Timing Constraint Remapping to Avoid Time Discontinuities in Distributed Real-Time Systems. 89-

Session IV: Databases and Operating Systems

Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant R. Haritsa, John A. Stankovic:
MIRROR: A State-Conscious Concurrency Control Protocol for Replicated Real-Time Databases. 100-110
Shuichi Oikawa, Ragunathan Rajkumar:
Portable RK: A Portable Resource Kernel for Guaranteed and Enforced Timing Behavior. 111-120
Marty Humphrey, Edgar Hilton, Paul Allaire:
Experiences using RT-Linux to Implement a Controller for a High Speed Magnetic Bearing System. 121-

Session V: Real-Time Windows NT

Allan Baril:
Using Windows NT in Real-Time Systems. 132-141
Kevin M. Obenland, John Kowalik, Tiffany Frazier, Jin S. Kim:
Comparing the Real-Time Performance of Windows NT to an NT Real-Time Extension. 142-

Session VI: Real-Time Middleware

Fred Kuhns, Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine:
The Design and Performance of a Real-Time I/O Subsystem. 154-163
Chia Shen, Oscar González, Krithi Ramamritham, Ichiro Mizunuma:
User Level Scheduling of Communicating Real-Time Tasks. 164-175
Mallikarjun Shankar, Miguel De Miguel, Jane W.-S. Liu:
An End-to-End QoS Management Architecture. 176-

Session VII: Real-Time Communication

Seok-Kyu Kweon, Kang G. Shin, Qin Zheng:
Statistical Real-Time Communication over Ethernet for Manufacturing Automation Systems. 192-202
Mikael Sjödin, Hans Hansson:
Analyzing Multimedia Traffic in Real-Time ATM Networks. 203-212
Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta:
QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm. 213-

Session VIII: Case Studies II

Jae-Chul Moon, Jun Ho Park, Soon-Ju Kang:
An Event Channel-based Embedded Software Architecture for Developing Telemetric and Teleoperation Systems on the WWW. 224-233
A. Luchetta, Gabriele Manduchi:
General Purpose Architecture for Real-Time Feedback Control in Nuclear Fusion Experiments. 234-244
Mark Swick, James White, Michael W. Masters:
A Summary of Communication Middleware Requirements for Advanced Shipboard Computing Systems. 245-254
Lorraine E. P. Rice, Albert Mo Kim Cheng:
Timing Analysis of the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicle Avionics. 255-

Session IX: Quality of Service

Lonnie R. Welch, Paul V. Werme, Larry A. Fontenot, Michael W. Masters, Behrooz Shirazi, Binoy Ravindran, D. Wayne Mills:
Adaptive QoS and Resource Management using a Posteriori Workload Characterizations. 266-275
Chen Lee, John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Daniel P. Siewiorek:
On Quality of Service Optimization with Discrete QoS Options. 276-

Invited Presentation

Michael B. Jones, John Regehr:
The Problems You're Having May Not Be the Problems You Think You're Having: Results from a Latency Study of Windows NT. 287-