Real-Time Systems Journal
Special Issue Call for Papers: Temperature/Energy Aware Real-Time Systems
Guest Editors:
- Daniel Mossé, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
- Julius C.B. Leite, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
- Dara Kusic, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2010
- First Decision: 30 September 2010
- Final Manuscript Deadline: 1 November 2010
- Final Decision: December 2010
- Publication: Early 2011
Real-time systems encompassing a range from small-scale embedded devices to large-scale data centers are increasingly challenged to reduce energy consumption while maintaining assurance that soft and hard deadlines will be met. Techniques such as software-controlled dynamic voltage scaling and demand-based on/off approaches have emerged as attractive alternatives to static management policies, yet their flexibility is often matched by the complexity of the solution, with the accompanying risk that deadlines will occasionally be missed. As the computational demands of real-time systems continue to grow, effective yet transparent energy-management schemes will become increasingly important to minimize energy consumption, extend battery
life, and reduce cooling requirements due to thermal loss.
To help advance such work, the Journal Real-Time Systems is planning a special issue on energy and thermal management in real-time systems. The special issue will primarily focus on novel theoretical and/or experience
with practical software-level solutions that advance the research in energy and thermal management of real-time systems. Soft- and hard-deadline real-time systems will be considered equally for the special issue. Realistic applications as testbeds are also of particular interest, examples of which include cyber-physical systems, medical
applications, and sensor networks. Results from real system implementations will be favored over those from simulation. Of particular interest are approaches and applications of energy management in real-time systems to
include, but not limited to:
- Energy-aware operating systems for embedded systems
- Energy and thermal-aware techniques for scheduling, memory management, and
- quality of service
- Energy reduction in communications over sensor networks
- Cluster-level virtualization, consolidation and load balancing techniques
- Dynamic frequency and voltage scaling
- Risk mitigation of deadline misses for demand-based strategies
- Techniques for reliability using energy/thermal metrics
- Case studies of energy and thermal management in real systems
Paper submission:
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Real-Time Systems a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://TIME.edmgr.com. This online system offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats.
