Subject: IEEE-CS TC-RTS Newsletter for Sun May 30, 1999 _______________________________________________________________________________ __ _ __ ___ ___ __ __ I E E E Technical Committee |\ | |_ | | (_' | |_ | | |_ |_) C S on Real-Time Systems | \| |__ |/\| ,_) |__ |__ | | |__ | \ _______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Line ----------------- ---- 1. dipippo@cs.uri.edu [mailto:dipippo@cs.uri.edu] (399 lines) FW: RTAS'99 Advance Program / WIP Call for Papers.................. 3 2. Azer Bestavros (255 lines) Final Program for RTAW'99 (QoS Support for RT Internet Apps)....... 402 3. Christof Fetzer [mailto:cfetzer@cs.ucsd.edu] (94 lines) Special Issue on Wireless Real-Time Communications................. 657 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* START OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 1; Postmarked Wed Apr 21 08:08:17 1999 From: dipippo@cs.uri.edu [mailto:dipippo@cs.uri.edu] Subject: FW: RTAS'99 Advance Program / WIP Call for Papers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 16734 Fifth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel June 2-4, 1999 Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advance Program And Call For Participation http://rtas99.cs.uri.edu **** Early Registration Deadline -- May 7 **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symposium Highlights ==================== Along with a diverse program of technical papers, this year's RTAS includes several venues that highlight the state-of-the-art of real-time applications and research. Workshop: The symposium is kicked-off with a Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet Applications coordinated by Azer Bestavros. This workshop will bring together researchers interested in the design and implementation of novel protocols and architectures to support the requirements of applications that are subject to QoS constraints. Tutorials: The symposium includes four tutorials on Real-Time Java by Greg Bollella and Kelvin Nielsen, Real-Time Analysis Tools by Peter Kortman and Ragunathan Rajkumar, Real-Time CORBA by Jon Curry and Real-Time Communication by Wei Zhao. Work-in-Progress Sessions: There will be two WIP sessions throughout the symposium. These sessions will provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback from the real-time community at large. See http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/manas/rtas99wip/ for information regarding submission of papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Objectives and Scope ==================== The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium brings together real-time system developers and researchers from academia, industry and government to present the latest advances in real-time systems research, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. An exciting program that fosters discussions and technical exchanges is planned, including tutorials, panel discussions, technical paper presentations and work-in-progress sessions on various aspects of real-time computing and communication, ranging from multimedia applications, case studies, systems integration, application requirements, scheduling, operating systems, software engineering, dependability, databases, programming languages, system development tools, communications, performance modeling and formal techniques. The technical program for RTAS'99 is organized into nine sessions, covering various aspects of real-time systems technology and applications: namely Scheduling, Languages and Timing Constraints, Databases and Operating Systems, Real-Time Windows NT, Real-Time Middleware, Real-Time Communication, Quality ofService, and Experiences and Case Studies. In addition to these eigth technical sessions, this year's RTAS program features four tutorials on Real-Time Java, on Real-Time CORBA, on Real-Time Communication, and on Real-Time Analysis Tools. This year's RTAS will also include special Work-In-Progress (WIP) sessions. These sessions will feature a number of short technical presentations to elicit the community's feedback on and interest in on-going research projects and system building efforts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet Applications =========================================================== (accepting submissions until April 16) The Internet is increasingly being used to support a wide range of applications that are subject to QoS constraints for proper operation. This 1-day workshop preceding the RTAS'99 aims at bringing together researchers interested in the design and implementation of novel protocols and architectures to support the requirements of such applications in the context of the existing ubiquitous infrastructure of the Internet (i.e. HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP, MBone, etc.) For more information about paper submission, please visit the Workshop web site at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtaw99/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tutorials (see http://rtas99.cs.uri.edu for more details about tutorials) ========= Real-Time Java by Greg Bollella and Kelvin Nielsen Wed. June 2, 13:30-15:30 Real-Time Analysis Tools by Peter Kortman and Ragunathan Rajkumar Wed. June 2, 18:15-19:30 Real-Time CORBA by Jon Curry Thur. June 3, 13:30-15:30 Real-Time Communication by Wei Zhao Fri. June 4, 10:30-12:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Work-in-Progress Sessions ========================= (accepting submissions until April 15) RTAS'99 WIP will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems and applications. The prime purpose of this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback from the real-time community at large. Submissions on all aspects of real-time computing, applications, and systems are sought for this work-in-progress session. Of particular interest are papers exploring promising new ideas and approaches. There will be two RTAS'99 WIP sessions held on the first two days of the conference. These sessions will consist of 10-minute presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in a special RTAS'99 WIP proceedings that will be distributed to all RTAS'99 conference participants, and will be available electronically from the IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW. For information on submitting papers to the session, please visit the WIP web site at http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/manas/rtas99wip/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Program ================= Tuesday June 1, 1999 * 08:00-17:00 / IEEE Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet Applications * 17:00-19:00 / Symposium Registration and Informal Reception Wednesday June 2, 1999 * 07:30-08:15 / Registration * 08:15-08:30 / Opening Remarks o Azer Bestavros (General Chair) and Victor Fay Wolfe (Program Chair) * 08:30-10:00 / Session I: Scheduling o "Responsiveness Approach for Scheduling Fault Recovery Operations in Real-Time Systems", Pedro Mejia-Alvarez and Daniel Mosse. o "Adaptive Scheduling: Overloading Scheduling for Mission Critical Systems", Paul Richardson and Susanta Sarkar. o "Scalable Scheduling Support for Loss and Delay Constrained Media Streams", Richard West, Karsten Schwan and Christian Poellabauer. * 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break * 10:30-12:00 / Session II: Case Studies I o "A Dynamic Real-Time Benchmark for Assessment of QoS and Resource Management Technology", Lonnie R. Welch and Behrooz A. Shirazi. o "Static Properties of Commercial Embedded Real-Time Programs, and Their Implication for Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis", Jakob Engblom. o "Implementation of a Transient-Fault-Tolerance Scheme on DEOS - A Technology Transfer from and Academic System to an Industrial", Libin Dong, Rami Melhem, Daniel Mosse, Sunondo Ghosh, Walt Heimerdinger, Aaron Larson. * 12:00-13:30 / Lunch * 13:30-15:30 / Tutorial: Real-Time Java * 15:30-16:00 / Afternoon Break * 16:00-17:30 / Session III: Languages and Timing Constraints o "Implementation of JEM - A Java Composite Event Package", Guangtian Liu and Aloysius K. Mok. o "Tighter Timing Predictions by Automatic Detection and Exploitation of Value-Dependent Constraints", Christopher Healy and David Whalley. o "Timing Constraint Remapping to Avoid Time Discontinuities in Distributed Real-Time Systems", Minsoo Ryu, Jungkeun Park and Seongsoo Hong. * 17:30-18:15 / Work-in-Progress Session I * 18:15-21:00 / RTAS'99 Reception and Dinner * 18:15-19:30 / Tutorial and Demonstration: Real-Time Analysis Tools: Thursday June 3, 1999 * 08:00-8:30 / Breakfast * 8:30-10:00 / Session IV: Databases and Operating Systems o "MIRROR: A State-Conscious Concurrency Control Protocol for Replicated Real-Time Databases", Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant Haritsa and John Stankovic. o "Portable RK: A Portable Resource Kernel for Guaranteed and Enforced Timing Behavior", Shuichi Oikawa and Ragunathan Rajkumar. o "Experiences Using RT-Linux to Implement a Controller for a High Speed Magnetic Bearing System", Marty Humphrey, Edgar Hilton and Paul Allaire. * 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break * 10:30-12:00 / SessionV: Real-Time Windows NT o Invited Paper - MicroSoft (TBA). o "Using Windows NT in Real-Time Systems", Allan Baril. o "Comparing Real-Time Performance of Windows NT to an NT Real-Time Extension", Kevin M. Obenland, John Kowalik, Tiffany Frazier and Jin S. Kim.. * 12:00-13:30 / Lunch * 13:30-15:30 / Tutorial: Real-Time CORBA * 15:30-16:00 / Afternoon Break * 16:00-17:30 / Session VI: Real-Time Middleware o "The Design and Performance of RIO", Fred Kuhns, Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine and Rajeev Bector. o "User Level Scheduling of Communicating Real-Time Tasks", Chia Shen, Oscar Gonzalez, Krithi Ramamritham and Ichiro Mizunuma. o "An End-to-End QoS Management Architecture", Mallikarjun Shankar, Miguel DeMiguel, Jane W.S. Liu. * 17:30-18:30 / Work-in-Progress Session II * 18:30-19:00 / Semi-Annual IEEE-CS RTS Technical Committee Meeting: Chair Doug Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation. Friday June 4, 1999 * 08:00-08:30 / Breakfast * 08:30-10:00 / Tutorial: Real-Time Communication * 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break * 10:30-12:00 / Session VII: Real-Time Communication o "Statistical Real-Time Communication Over Ethernet for Manufacturing Automation Systems", Seok-Kyu Kweon, Kang G. Shin and Qin Zheng. o "Analyzing Multimedia Traffic in Real-Time ATM Networks", Mikael Sjodin and Hans Hansson. o "QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm", Liang Guo and Ibrahim Matta. * 12:00-13:30 / Lunch * 13:30-15:00 / Session VIII: Case Studies II o "A Event Channel-Based Embedded Software Architecture for Developing Telemetric and Teleoperation Systems on the WWW", Jae-Chul Moon, Myung-Jin Lee and Soon-Ju Kang. o "General Purpose Architecture for Real-Time Feedback Control in Nuclear Fusion Experiments", A. Luchetta and G. Manduchi. o "A Summary of Communication Middleware Requirements for Advanced Shipboard Computing Systems", Mark Swick, James White and Michael Masters. o "Timing Analysis of the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicle Avionics", Lorraine E. P. Rice and Albert M. K. Cheng. * 15:00-15:30 / Afternoon Break * 15:30-16:30 / Session IX: Quality of Service o "Adaptive QoS and Resource Management Using a Posteriori Workload Characterizations", Lonnie R. Welch, Paul V. Werme, Larry A. Fontenot, Michael W. Masters, Behrooz A Shirazi, Binoy Ravindran and D. Wayne Mills. o "On Quality of Service Optimization With Discrete QoS Options", Chen Lee. * 16:30-16:40 / Closing Remarks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotel Information ================= The Conference will be held at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, which is located at the heart of beautiful downtown Vancouver, minutes away from the Waterfront and from many other attractions. For more information contact the hotel at the address below or visit it on the Web at http://www.sheratonwallcentre.com. The hotel guarantees the following rates for rooms: * CND$195 for single/double rooms (equivalent to approximately US$127 based on today's exchange rate). * To get this rate mention "IEEE RTAS'99" * The rooms are guaranteed if reserved before May 7th. Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel 1088 Burrard Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2R9, Canada Tel: (604) 331-1000 Fax: (604) 893-7200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference/Workshop Registration ================================ Mail to: Ms. Linda Buss RTAS'99 E3774 - 550th Ave. Menomonie, WI 54751 USA Phone: 715-235-0487 Fax: (715) 235-2258 or (715) 232-6243 Email: ljbuss@win.bright.net Name: ____________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ Phone: ____________ Fax: __________________________ Email: ______________________________________________ IEEE Membership No: _______________________________ (All fees in US$$) RTAS'99 Fees On or Before May 7 After May 7 IEEE Members $390 $470 Non-Members $490 $585 Full-time Students$190 $220 Workshop Fees On or Before May 7 After May 7 Members $100 $120 Non-Members $125 $150 Full-time Students$100 $120 Registration can be done through electronic mail. The e-mail address is ljbuss@win.bright.net. Conference registration includes all the events of the symposium. To receive student rate, students are required to have advisor's name and signature at the time of registration. Advisor Name: __________________________ Advisor Signature: __________________________ Written request for refunds, subject to a processing fee, must be made no later than May 7, 1999. Payment can be made by check, money order, or credit card. Please make checks or money orders payable, in U.S. dollars, to RTAS'99. Payments in other currencies will not be accepted. Credit Card: [ ] Visa [ ] Mastercard [ ] American Express Credit Card Number: ____________________________ Cardholder Name: _____________________________ Credit Card Expiration Date:____________________ Total Charges Authorized:_______________________ Signature: ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee General Chair o Azer Bestavros, Boston University Program Committee Chair o Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island Publicity Chair o Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, University of Rhode Island Tutorials Coordinator o Neeraj Suri, Boston University Program Committee Members o Alia Atlas , BBN Technologies USA o Neil Audsley, University of York, England o Hanene Ben-Abdallah, FSEG, Univ. de Sfax, Tunisia o Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, University of Rhode Island, USA o Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA o Michael Gonzalez Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain o Jorgen Hansson, University of Skovde, Sweden o Marty Humphrey, University of VirginiaUSA o Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, USA o E. Douglas Jensen, MITRE Corporation, USA o Russell Johnston, US Navy SPAWAR SYSCEN San Diego, USA o Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, USA o Peter Kortman, Tri-Pacific Software, USA o Tei-Wei Kuo, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan o Jane Liu,University Of Illinois USA o Douglass Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA o Peter H. Mills, Applied Research Associates, Inc., USA o Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh, USA o Susan Nagy, EMC Corp., USA o Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA o Manas Saksena,Concordia University, Canada o Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, USA o Anoop Singhal, AT&T Labs, USA o Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA o Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information check RTAS'99 Home Page at http://rtas99.cs.uri.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 2; Postmarked Sun May 30 23:11:29 1999 From: Azer Bestavros Subject: Final Program for RTAW'99 (QoS Support for RT Internet Apps) Content-Length: 9186 --------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ON QOS SUPPORT FOR REAL-TIME INTERNET APPLICATIONS In Conjunction with The 5th IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel Tuesday June 1, 1999 ADVANCE PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtaw99 OBJECTIVE --------- The Internet is increasingly being used to support a wide range of applications that are subject to QoS constraints for proper operation. This 1-day workshop (preceding the 1999 IEEE RTAS'99 Symposium) aims at bringing together researchers interested in the design and implementation of novel protocols and architectures to support the requirements of such applications in the context of the existing ubiquitous infrastructure of the Internet. The Workshop consists of four main sessions on Differentiated Services, Routing and Channel Access, QoS Estimation and Adaptation, and Resource Allocation and Integration. Each of the sessions will feature a set of technical presentations to be followed by a discussion. The Workshop Proceedings, which will be distributed to all Workshop attendees, will include all presentations as well as a set of Project Summaries and Position Statements from Workshop participants. TECHNICAL PROGRAM ----------------- 08:00-08:30 Registration and Breakfast 08:30-08:45 Opening Remarks Azer Bestavros and Raj Rajkumar 08:45-10:30 Session I: Differentiated Services - A Prototype Implementation of the Two-Tier Architecture for Differentiated Services. Andreas Terzis, Jun Ogawa, Sonia Tsui, Lan Wang, Lixia Zhang (UCLA). - A Framework of IP QoS Service Model and Performance Byoung-Joon Lee, Minzhi Zhang, Roland Smith (Nortel Networks, Canada). - VBR bandwidth-guaranteed services over DiffServ networks F. Borgonovo, A. Capone, L. Fratta and C. Petrioli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy). - Using Differentiated Services to Enhance Network Protocol and Application Performance. Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research). 10:30-10:45 Morning Break 10:45-12:30 Session II: Routing and Channel Access - Examining the Construction of Shared Trees Using Different Metrics. Ken Carlberg and Jon Crowcroft (University College London, UK). - QoS-sensitive routing for Real-time Multicasting. Shuqian Yan (University of Toronto), Michalis Faloutsos (UC Riverside), and Anindo Banerjea (ISI/USC). - Multi-QoS Constraints Based Routing for IP and ATM Networks Gang Luo, Kaiyuan Huang, Jianli Wang, Chris Hobbs and Ernst Munter (Nortel Networks, Canada). - A QoS Capable Medium Access Protocol for Mobile Networks Donald F. Gingras and Stephan K. Lapic (SPAWAR Systems Center, CA). 12:30-14:00 Workshop Lunch 14:00-15:30 Session III: QoS Estimation and Adaptation - Rate Probing Based Adaptation at End Hosts. Yoshito Tobe, Yosuke Tamura, Hideaki Nishino, Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio University). - Instantaneous Packet Delay Variation (IPDV). Carlo Demichelis and Enrico Petrov (CSELT, Italy). - How real-time can real-time be in a large-scale IP network? Harrie Bastiaansen, Kees van der Wal, Rob Kooij (KPN Research, Netherlands) and Michel Mandjes (Bell Labs). - Quality of Service Management within a Middleware for Multicast Applications. Alan Smith and Richard Jacobs (BT Laboratories, England). 15:30-15:45 Afternoon Break 15:45-17:30 Session IV: Resource Allocation and Integration - Boomerang -- A Simple Protocol for Resource Reservation in IP Networks. Gabor Feher, Krisztian Nemeth, Markosz Maliosz (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary), Istvan Cselenyi, Joakim Bergkvist, David Ahlard, and Tomas Engborg (Telia Research AB, Sweden). - The Renegotiable Variable Bit Rate Service: Characterisation and prototyping. Silvia Giordano and Jean-Yves Le Boudec (Institut pour les Communications Informatiques et lours Applications, Lausanne, Switzerland). - Cooperating Resource Managers. Hermann Hartig, Lars Reuther, Joan Wolter, Martin Borriss and Torsten Paul (Dresden University of Technology, Germany). - ELISA: An European Linkage between Internet Integrated and Differentiated Services over ATM. T.V. Do (Technical University of Budapest), H. Hussmann (Technical University of Dresden) Berthold Koch, C. Prehofer, I.S. Venieris, Siemens AG G. Mamais, Natioanl (Technical University of Athens), S. Salsano, CoRiTel J.-J. Tchouto, C. Tittel, and P. Todorova (GMD-Fokus). HOTEL INFORMATION: ----------------- The Workshop will be held at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, which is located at the heart of beautiful downtown Vancouver, minutes away from the Waterfront and from many other attractions. For more information contact the hotel at the address below or visit it on the Web at http://www.sheratonwallcentre.com/ Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel 1088 Burrard Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2R9, Canada Tel: (604) 331-1000 Fax: (604)331-1001 The hotel guarantees a rate of CND$195 for single/double rooms (equivalent to approximately US$127 based on recent exchange rates). To get this rate mention "IEEE RTAS'99". The rooms are guaranteed if reserved before May 7th. REGISTRATION INFORMATION ------------------------ The registration fees for the Workshop as well as for the Symposium are given below (all fees are in US Dollars). Registration Fees for RTAS'99 Workshop (June 1, 1999) Before May 7 After May 7 Members $100 $120 Non-Members $125 $150 Full-time Students $100 $120 Registration Fees for RTAS'99 Symposium (June 2-4,1999) Before May 7 After May 7 IEEE Members $390 $470 Non-Members $490 $585 Full-time Students $190 $220 Please mail your completed registration form (below) to: Ms. Linda Buss RTAS'99 E3774 - 550th Ave. Menomonie, WI 54751 USA Phone: 715-235-0487 Fax: (715) 235-2258 or (715) 232-6243 Email: ljbuss@win.bright.net Registration can be done through electronic mail. The e-mail address is ljbuss@win.bright.net. Symposium/Workshop registration includes all the events of the Symposium/Workshop (including meals and proceedings). To receive student rate, students are required to have advisor's name and signature at the time of registration. Written request for refunds, subject to a processing fee, must be made no later than May 7, 1999. Payment can be made by check, money order, or credit card. Please make checks or money orders payable, in U.S. dollars, to RTAS'99. Payments in other currencies will not be accepted. Registration Information: Name: _____________________________________________ Affiliation: ______________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ Phone: ____________ Fax: __________________________ Email: ____________________________________________ IEEE Membership No: _______________________________ Credit Card Information: [ ] Visa [ ] Mastercard [ ] American Express Credit Card Number: ____________________________ Cardholder Name: _____________________________ Credit Card Expiration Date:____________________ Total Charges Authorized:_______________________ Signature: ____________________________________ PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Azer Bestavros, Boston University Ragunathan Rajkumar, Carnegie Melon University PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS ------------------------- Alia Atlas, BBN Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina Ibrahim Matta, Northeastern University Ashish Mehra, IBM Katia Obraczka, USC Information Science Institute Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Kang Shin, University of Michigan Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia --------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information check the workshop's home page on the Web at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtaw99 and the symposium's home page at http://rtas99.cs.uri.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 3; Postmarked Sun May 30 23:12:55 1999 From: Christof Fetzer [mailto:cfetzer@cs.ucsd.edu] Subject: Special Issue on Wireless Real-Time Communications Content-Length: 2459 CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Real-Time Systems Special Issue on Wireless Real-Time Communications The advent of wireless computer communication facilities creates increasing interest in utilizing this technology for real-time computer communication. Among the promising prospects are seamless support of mobile nodes, e.g. in factory automation systems, increased fault-tolerance based upon multiple radio channels, and superior scalability. However, particular challenges are created if wireless communication is to be used in a real-time system. Apart from timing constraints, typical real-time applications impose stringent reliability and integrity requirements, which are difficult to guarantee on their own. New paradigms, algorithms and architectures are needed when several of those requirements are to be met simultaneously. The above mentioned special issue of Real-Time Systems focusses on this problem domain. You are invited to submit original theoretical and applied/practical papers that deal with wireless Algorithms and services Protocols Robust communications Hardware architectures Physical layer advances Applications and case studies related to Real-time communication Reliability and fault-tolerance Advanced security issues Particularly welcome are papers that consider several of the above issues simultaneously. Please email your contributions (in Postscript format) before December 1, 1999 to one of the editors Christof Fetzer Dept. of Comp. Science & Eng. Univ. of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive 0114 La Jolla, California 92093-0114 cfetzer@cs.ucsd.edu http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~cfetzer Alois M.J. Goiser Technische Univ. Wien Inst. für Angew. Elektronik und Quantenelektronik Gußhausstraße 25-27 A-1040 Vienna agoiser@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at Ulrich Schmid Technische Univ. Wien Inst. für Automation Treitlstraße 1 A-1040 Vienna s@auto.tuwien.ac.at J. Real-Time Systems encourages and favours the electronic submission of contributions marked-up in LaTeX under utilisation of a journal-specific style file. The LaTeX style file specifically developed for Real-Time Systems can be obtained via http://www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6443 Prospective authors may access instructions for submissions and an html version of this call for papers at http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~cfetzer/cfpwrtc.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* END OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The TC-RTS repository is maintained by Azer Bestavros at Boston University WWW Home Page of the TC-RTS is at: http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/Home.html Internet address for anonymous FTP to the TC-RTS repository is: cs-ftp.bu.edu Contributions to this forum should be sent via E-mail to: IEEE-RTTC@cs.bu.edu Requests / inquiries should be sent via E-mail to: IEEE-RTTC-request@cs.bu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------