OSPERT 2018 - 14th annual workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time applications

OSPERT’18 is open to all topics related to providing a reliable operating environment for real-time and embedded applications.
Developers of embedded RTOSs are faced with many challenges arising from two opposite needs: on the one hand there is a need for extreme resource usage optimization (processor cycles, energy, network bandwidth, etc.), and an the other hand there are also increasing demands in terms of scalability, flexibility, isolation, adaptivity, reconfigurability, predictability, serviceability, and certifiability, to name a few. Further, while special-purpose RTOSs continue to be used for many embedded applications, real-time services are also increasingly introduced and used in general-purpose operating systems, and market pressures continue to blur the lines between the two formerly distinct classes of operating systems. Notable examples are the various flavors of real-time Linux that support time-sensitive applications, the emergence of commercial and open-source real-time hypervisors, as well as the growth in features and scope of embedded OS and middleware specifications such as AUTOSAR.
OSPERT’18 is dedicated to the advances in RTOS technology required to address these trends. As such, areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Case studies and experience reports
Consolidation of real-time and best-effort work on embedded platforms
Certification and verification of RTOSs and middleware
Coordinated management of multiple resources
Dynamic reconfiguration and upgrading
Empirical comparisons and evaluations of RTOSs
Flexible processor, memory, and I/O scheduling
Interaction with reconfigurable hardware
Operating system standards (e.g., AUTOSAR, ARINC, POSIX, etc.)
Power and energy management
Quality of Service guarantees
Real-time Linux variants
Real-time virtualization and hypervisors
RTOSs for manycore platforms
Scalability, from very small scale embedded systems to full-fledged RTOSs
Security and fault tolerance for embedded real-time systems
Support for multiprocessor architectures
Support for component-based development