Best Paper Awards

This page lists papers that have been recognized for their high quality at the different TCRTS-sponsored conferences.

    • 2023

      • RTSS 2023

        • Best Paper Award: Jinghao Sun, Tianyi Wang, Yang Li, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Qingxu Deng and Guozhen Tan (SEAM: An Optimal Message Synchronizer in ROS with Well-Bounded Time Disparity)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Ruiqi Wang, Hanyang Liu, Jiaming Qiu, Moran Xu, Roch Guerin and Chenyang Lu (Progressive Neural Compression for Adaptive Image Offloading under Timing Constraints)

      • RTAS 2023

        • Best Paper Award: Cédric Courtaud and Björn Brandenburg (G(IP)2C: Temporally Isolated Multiprocessor Real-Time IPC with Server-to-Server Invocations)
        • Best Student Paper Award: José Martins and Sandro Pinto (Shedding Light on Static Partitioning Hypervisors for Arm-based Mixed-Criticality Systems)

    • 2022

      • RTSS 2022

        • Best Paper Award: Arpan Gujarati, Ningfeng Yang and Björn Brandenburg (In-ConcReTeS: Interactive Consistency meets Distributed Real-Time Systems, Again!)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Wenyuan Shao, Bite Ye, Huachuan Wang, Gabriel Parmer and Yuxin Ren (Edge-RT: OS Support for Controlled Latency in the Multi-Tenant, Real-Time Edge.)

      • RTAS 2022

        • Best Paper Award: Sayra Ranjha, Geoffrey Nelissen, and Mitra Nasri (Partial-Order Reduction for Schedule-Abstraction-based Response-Time Analyses of Non-Preemptive Tasks)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Anam Farrukh and Richard West (FlyOS: Integrated Modular Avionics for Autonomous Multicopters)

    • 2021

      • RTSS 2021

        • Best Paper Award: Sergey Bozhko, Georg von der Brüggen, and Björn Brandenburg (Monte Carlo Response-Time Analysis)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Mohsen Shekarisaz, Lothar Thiele, and Mehdi Kargahi (Automatic Energy-Hotspot Detection and Elimination in Real-Time Deeply Embedded Systems)
        • Best Solution Award for Industry Session: Jinghao Sun, Tianyi Wang, Kailu Duan, Bin Lu, Jiankang Ren, Zhishan Guo, and Guozhen Tan (Toward Real-Time Guaranteed Scheduling for Autonomous Driving Systems)

      • RTAS 2021

        • Best Paper Award: Olivier Nicole, Matthieu Lemerre, Sébastien Bardin, Xavier Rival (No Crash, No Exploit: Automated Verification of Embedded Kernels)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Tobias Klaus, Matthias Becker, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Peter Ulbrich (Constrained Data-Age with Job-Level Dependencies: How to Reconcile Tight Bounds and Overheads)

    • 2020

      • RTSS 2020

        • Best Paper Award: Shengzhong Liu, Shuochao Yao, Xinzhe Fu, Rohan Tabish, Simon Yu, Ayoosh Bansal, Heechul Yun, Lui Sha, and Tarek Abdelzaher (On Removing Algorithmic Priority Inversion from Mission-critical Machine Inference Pipelines)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Parul Sohal, Rohan Tabish, Ulrich Drepper, and Renato Mancuso (E-WarP: a System-wide Framework for Memory Bandwidth Profiling and Management)
        • Best Presentation Award: Gregory Stock (Cache Persistence Analysis: Finally Exact)

      • RTAS 2020

        • Best Paper Award: Shahin Roozkhosh and Renato Mancuso (The Potential of Programmable Logic in the Middle: Cache Bleaching)
        • Best Presentation Award: Martin Geier, Marian Brändle, Dominik Faller and
          Samarjit Chakraborty (Debugging FPGA-accelerated Real-time Systems)

    • 2019

      • RTSS 2019

        • Best Paper Award: Gregory Stock, Sebastian Hahn, and Jan Reineke (Cache Persistence Analysis: Finally Exact)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, Kecheng Yang, Samsil Arefin, Abusayeed Saifullah, Nan Guan, and Zhishan Guo. (Mixed-Criticality Multicore Scheduling of Real-Time Gang Task Systems)

      • RTAS 2019

        • Best Paper Award: Meng Xu, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Hyon-Young Choi, Yuhan Lin, Haoran Li, Chenyang Lu, and Insup Lee (Holistic Resource Allocation for Multicore Real-Time Systems)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Saeed Abedi, Neeraj Gandhi, Henri Maxime Demoulin, Yang Li, Yang Wu, and Linh Thi Xuan Phan (RTNF: Predictable Latency for Network Function Virtualization)
        • Best Presentation Award: Simon Schuster (Proving Real-Time Capability of Generic Operating Systems by System-Aware Timing Analysis)

    • 2018

      • RTSS 2018

        • Best Paper Award: Mohamed Hassan (On the Off-chip Memory Latency of Real-Time Systems: Is DDR DRAM Really the Best Option?)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Sebastian Hahn and Jan Reineke (Design and Analysis of SIC: A Provably Timing-Predictable Pipelined Processor Core)
        • Best Presentation Award: Alessandro Biondi (Memory Feasibility Analysis of Parallel Tasks Running on Scratchpad-Based Architectures)

      • RTAS 2018

        • Best Paper Award: Husheng Zhou, Soroush Bateni, and Cong Liu
          (S^3DNN: Supervised Streaming and Scheduling for GPU-accelerated Real-Time DNN Workloads)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Yuxin Ren, Guyue Liu, Gabriel Parmer, and Björn Brandenburg (Scalable Memory Reclamation for Multi-Core, Real-Time Systems)
        • Best Presentation Award: Pratyush Patel, Iljoo Baek, Hyoseung Kim, and Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar (Analytical Enhancements and Practical Insights for MPCP with Self-Suspensions)

      2017

      • RTSS 2017

        • Best Paper Award: Pontus Ekberg and Wang Yi (Fixed-Priority Schedulability of Sporadic Tasks on Uniprocessors is NP-hard)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Yecheng Zhao and Haibo Zeng (The Virtual Deadline based Optimization Algorithm for Priority Assignment in Fixed-Priority Scheduling)
        • Best Presentation Award: Tanya Amert, Nathan Otterness, Ming Yang, Jim Anderson, and F.Donelson Smith (GPU Scheduling on the NVIDIA TX2: Hidden Details Revealed)

      • RTAS 2017

        • Best Paper Award: Pratyush Patel, Manohar Vanga, and Björn Brandenburg (TimerShield: Protecting High-Priority Tasks from Low-Priority Timer Interference)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Zhuoqun Cheng, Richard West, and Ying Ye (Building Real-Time Embedded Applications on QduinoMC: A Web-connected 3D Printer Case Study)
        • Best Presentation Award: Adwait Dongare, Anthony Rowe, Patrick Lazik, and Niranjini Rajagopal (Pulsar: A Wireless Propagation-Aware Clock Synchronization Platform)

    • 2016

      • RTSS 2016

        • Best Paper Award: Björn Brandenburg and Mahircan Gül (Global Scheduling Not Required: Simple, Near-Optimal Multiprocessor Real-Time Scheduling with Semi-Partitioned Reservations)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Monowar Hasan, Sibin Mohan, Rakesh Bobba and Rodolfo Pellizzoni (Exploring Opportunistic Execution for Integrating Security into Legacy Hard Real-Time Systems)
        • Best Presentation Award:  David Kozhaya (Right on Time Distributed Shared Memory)

      • RTAS 2016

        • Best Paper Award:   Prathap Kumar Valsan, Heechul Yun and Farzad Farshchi (Taming Non-blocking Caches to Improve Isolation in Multicore Real-Time Systems)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Namhoon Kim, Bryan C. Ward, Micaiah Chisholm, Cheng-Yang Fu, James H. Anderson and F. Donelson Smith (Attacking the One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem by Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Criticality Provisioning)
        • Best Presentation Award: Renato Mancuso (A Real-Time Scratchpad-centric OS for Multi-core Embedded Systems)

    • 2015

      • RTSS 2015

        • Best Paper Award:Pontus Ekberg and Wang Yi (Uniprocessor Feasibility of Sporadic Tasks Remains coNP-complete Under Bounded Utilization)

      • RTAS 2015

        • Best Paper Award: Martin Hoffmann, Florian Lukas, Christian Dietrich and Daniel Lohmann (dOSEK: The Design and Implementation of a Dependability-Oriented Static Embedded Kernel)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Amir Aminifar, Petru Eles and Zebo Peng (Jfair: A Scheduling Algorithm to Stabilize Control Application)

    • 2014

      • RTSS 2014

        • Best Paper Award: A. Saifullah, S. Sankar, J. Liu, C. Lu, R. Chandra and B. Priyantha (CapNet: a Real-Time Wireless Management Network for Data Center Power Capping)

      • RTAS 2014

        • Best Paper Award: Hyoseung Kim, Dionisio de Niz, Björn Andersson, Mark Klein, Onur Mutlu and Raj Rajkumar (Bounding Memory Interference Delay in COTS-based Multi-Core Systems)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Qi Wang and Gabriel Parmer (FJOS: Practical, Predictable, and Efficient System Support for Fork/Join Parallelism)

    • 2013

      • RTSS 2013

        • Best Paper Award: Yi-Hung Wei, Quan Leng, Song Han, Aloysius K. Mok, Wenlong Zhang and Masayoshi Tomizuka (RT-WiFi: Real-Time High-Speed Communication Protocol for Wireless Cyber-Physical Control Applications)

      • RTAS 2013

        • Best Paper Award: Bernard Blackham and Gernot Heiser (Sequoll: A framework for model checking binaries)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Renato Mancuso, Roman Dudko, Emiliano Betti, Marco Cesati, Marco Caccamo and Rodolfo Pellizzoni (Real-Time Cache Management Framework for Multi-core Architectures)

    • 2012

      • RTSS 2012

        • Best Paper Award: Hoon Sung Chwa, Hyoungbu Back, Sanjian Chen, Jinkyu Lee, Arvind Easwaran, Insik Shin and Insup Lee (Extending Task-Level to Job-Level Fixed Priority Assignment and Schedulability Analysis using Pseudo-Deadlines)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Farhana Dewan and Nathan Fisher (Efficient Admission Control for Enforcing Arbitrary Real-Time Demand-Curve Interfaces)

      • RTAS 2012

        • Best Paper Award: Shahriar Nirjon, Angela Nicoara, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Jatinder Singh and John Stankovic (MultiNets: Policy Oriented Real-Time Switching of Wireless Interfaces on Mobile Devices)
        • Best Student Paper Award: Miroslav Pajic, Zhihao Jiang, Insup Lee, Oleg Sokolsky and Rahul Mangharam (From Verification to Implementation: A Model Translation Tool and a Pacemaker Case Study)

  • 2011

    • RTSS 2011

      • Best Paper Award: Paul Regnier, George Lima, Ernesto Massa, Greg Levin and Scott Brandt (RUN: Optimal Multiprocessor Real-Time Scheduling via Reduction to Uniprocessor)
      • Best Student Paper Award: Abusayyed Saifullah, Kunal Agrawal, Chenyang Lu and Christopher Gill (Multi-core Real-Time Scheduling for Generalized Parallel Task Models)

    • RTAS 2011

      • Best Paper Award: Hassan Ghasemzadeh and Roozbeh Jafari (Ultra-low Power Granular Decision Making using Cross Correlation: Optimizing Bit Resolution for Template Matching)
      • Best Student Paper Award: Jinkyu Lee, Arvind Easwaran and Insik Shin (Maximizing Contention-Free Executions in Multiprocessor Scheduling)

  • 2010

    • RTSS 2010

      • Best Paper Award: Sadaf Zahedi, Mani Srivastava, Chatschik Bisdikian and Lance Kaplan (Quality Tradeoffs In Object Tracking With Duty-Cycled Sensor Networks)
      • Best Student Paper Award: Bjorn B. Brandenburg, James H. Anderson (Optimality Results For Multiprocessor Real-Time Locking)

    • RTAS 2010

      • Best Paper Award: Qing Cao, Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao (Energy-optimal Batching Periods for Asynchronous Multistage Data Processing on Sensor Nodes: Foundations and an mPlatform Case Study)
      • Best Student Paper Award: Robert Glaubius, Terry Tidwell, Braden Sidoti, David Pilla, Justin Meden, Christopher Gill, and William D. Smart (Scalable Scheduling Policy Design for Open Soft Real-Time Systems)

  • 2009

    • RTSS 2009

      • Best Paper Award: Nan Guan, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi and Ge Yu (New Response Time Bounds for Fixed Priority Multiprocessor Scheduling)
      • Best Student Paper Award: Cong Liu and James Anderson (Task Scheduling with Self-Suspensions in Soft Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems); Karthik Lakshmanan, Dionisio de Niz and Ragunathan €œRaj€ Rajkumar (Coordinated Task Scheduling, Allocation and Synchronization on Multiprocessors)

  • 2008

    • RTSS 2008

      • Best Paper Award: Yefu Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Ming Chen and Xiaoyun Zhu (Power-Efficient Response Time Guarantees for Virtualized Enterprise Servers)
      • Best Student Paper Award: Jack Whitham and Neil Audsley (Predictable Out-of-order Execution Using Virtual Traces)

    • RTAS 2008

      • Best Student Paper Award: Tim Kaldewey, Theodore Wong, Richard Golding, Anna Povzner, Scott Brandt and Carlos Maltzahn (Virtualizing Disk Performance)

  • 2007

    • RTSS 2007

      • Best Paper Award: Jianjia Wu, Jyh-Charn Liu and Wei Zhao (Utilization-based schedulability analysis of weighted round robin schedulers)

  • 2006

    • RTAS 2006

      • Best Paper Award: Richard West and Gabriel Parmer (Application-Specific Service Technologies for Commodity Operating Systems in Real-Time Environments)

  • 2004

    • RTAS 2004

      • Best Student Paper Award: Lin Gu and John Stankovic (Radio-Triggered Wake-Up Capability for Sensor Networks)

    • RTSS 2004

      • Best Paper Award: Sourav Ghosh, Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, Jeffery Hansen, and John Lehoczky (Integrated Resource Management and Scheduling with Multi-Resource Constraints)
      • Best Student Paper Award: Sathish  Gopalakrishnan, Marco Caccamo, Chi-Sheng Shih, Chang-Gun Lee, and Lui Sha (Finite-Horizon Scheduling of Radar Dwells with Online Template Construction)

  • 2003

    • RTSS 2003

      • Best Paper Award: Insik Shin and Insup Lee (Periodic Resource Model for Compositional Real-Time Guarantees)