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Thesis

Scheduling High Criticality Real-Time Systems CISTER-TR-171102
Humberto Carvalho

Master Thesis. 17, Nov, 2017. Porto.

Reengineering and development of IoT Systems for Home Automation CISTER-TR-171204
Rafael Rocha

BEng Thesis. 9, Nov, 2017. Porto.

A Framework for Industry 4.0 CISTER-TR-171202
José Silva

Master Thesis. 19, Jul, 2017. Porto.

Integrating dataflow and non-dataflow real-time application models on multi-core platforms CISTER-TR-170512
Hazem Ali

PhD Thesis. 23, May, 2017. Porto.

Books & Book Chapters

Human Sensing Network Architecture and Challenges in Smart Cities CISTER-TR-180111
Tanmay Chaturvedi, Kai Li

Chapter in "Smart Cities: Technologies, Challenges and Future Prospects", Nova Science. 13, Sep, 2017, pp 117-140.Chapter 4. Human Sensing Network Architecture and Challenges in Smart Cities

Experiments with XDense: A Dense Grid Sensor Network for Distributed Feature Extraction CISTER-TR-170704
João Loureiro, Raghu R., Eduardo Tovar

Chapter in "Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 702)", Springer International. 12, Jul, 2017, pp 1-22.

The Arrowhead Framework architecture CISTER-TR-170113
Jerker Delsing, Pal Varga, Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano, Pablo Puñal Pereira, Jens Eliasson, Oscar Carlsson, Hasan Derhamy

Chapter in "IoT Automation: Arrowhead Framework", CRC Press Publisher. Feb 2017, pp 45-91.Chapter 3

Arrowhead Framework core systems and services CISTER-TR-170114
Jerker Delsing, Jens Eliasson, Michele Albano, Pal Varga, Luis Lino Ferreira, Hasan Derhamy, Csaba Hegedus, Pablo Puñal Pereira, Oscar Carlsson

Chapter in "IoT Automation: Arrowhead Framework", CRC Press Publisher. Feb 2017, pp 93-142.Chapter 4

Application system and services: design and implementation - a cook book CISTER-TR-170115
Jerker Delsing, Michele Albano, Luis Lino Ferreira, Fredrik Blomstedt, Per Olovsson, Pal Varga

Chapter in "IoT Automation: Arrowhead Framework", CRC Press Publisher. Feb 2017, pp 143-163.Chapter 5

Application system design – energy optimization CISTER-TR-170116
Michele Albano, Rodrigo Castiñeira, Chloé Desdouits, Luis Lino Ferreira, Thibaut Le Guilly, Inge Isasa, Jani Jokinen, Kaspars Kondratjevs, Nadezhda Kunicina, Lorenzo Manero, Aitor Milo, Javier Monge, Claude Le Pape, Per Pedersen, Torben Pedersen, Petur Olsen, Laurynas Siksnys, Arne Skou, Radislav Smid, Rafael Socorro, Petr Stluka, Anatolijs Zabasta

Chapter in "IoT Automation: Arrowhead Framework", CRC Press Publisher. Feb 2017, pp 217-252.Chapter 7

Robot Operating System (ROS) - The Complete Reference (Volume 2) CISTER-TR-170509
Anis Koubâa

2017, 655 pages.

Journal Papers

Joint Beamforming, Terminal Scheduling, and Adaptive Modulation with Imperfect CSIT in Rice Fading Correlated Channels with non-persistent Co-channel Interference CISTER-TR-171103
Ramiro Robles

International Journal of Advances in Telecommunications, Electrotechnics, Signals and Systems, IARIA. 31, Dec, 2017, Volume 10, Issue 3 and 4, pp 186-195.

FL-MTSP: a fuzzy logic approach to solve the multi-objective multiple traveling salesman problem for multi-robot systems CISTER-TR-180101
Sahar Trigui, Omar Cheikhrouhou, Anis Koubâa, Uthman Baroudi, Habib Youssef

Soft Computing, Springer. Dec 2017, Volume 21, Issue 24, pp 7351-7362.

An Enhanced WLAN Security System With FPGA Implementation for Multimedia Applications CISTER-TR-150601
Thaier Hayajneh, Sana Ullah, Bassam Jamil Mohd, Kiran Balagani

IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE. Dec 2017, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 2536-2545.

Dual Mode for Vehicular Platoon Safety: Simulation and Formal Verification CISTER-TR-170307
Oussama Karoui, Mohamed Khalgui, Anis Koubâa, Emna Guerfala, Zhiwu Li, Eduardo Tovar

Information Sciences, Elsevier. Sep 2017, Volume 402, pp 216-232.

Erratum to: Optimal minimal routing and priority assignment for priority-preemptive real-time NoCs CISTER-TR-181126
Borislav Nikolic, Luis Miguel Pinho

Real-time Systems, Springer US. Jul 2017, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp 613-613.

Optimal Minimal Routing and Priority Assignment for Priority-Preemptive Real-Time NoCs CISTER-TR-170301
Borislav Nikolic, Luis Miguel Pinho

Real-Time Systems, Springer. 30, Mar, 2017, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp 578-612.

Making system of systems interoperable – The core components of the arrowhead framework CISTER-TR-170513
Pal Varga, Fredrik Blomstedt, Luis Lino Ferreira, Jens Eliasson, Mats Johansson, Jerker Delsing, Iker Martínez de Soria

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier. Mar 2017, Volume 81, pp 85-95.

Move and Improve: a Market-Based Mechanism for the Multiple Depot Multiple Travelling Salesmen Problem CISTER-TR-180102
Anis Koubâa, Omar Cheikhrouhou, Hachemi Bennaceur, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Yasir JavedAdel Ammar

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer. Feb 2017, Volume 85, Issue 2, pp 307-330.

A Globally Arbitrated Memory Tree for Mixed-Time-Criticality Systems CISTER-TR-160801
Manil Dev Gomony, Jamie Garside, Benny Åkesson, Neil Audsley, Kees Goossens

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE. Feb 2017, Volume 66, Issue 2, pp 212-225.

End-to-End Response Time of 61499 Distributed Applications over Switched Ethernet CISTER-TR-170502
Per Lindgren, Johan Eriksson, Marcus Lindner, Andreas Lindner, David Pereira, Luis Miguel Pinho

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), IEEE. Feb 2017, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp 287-297.

Design and performance analysis of global path planning techniques for autonomous mobile robots in grid environments CISTER-TR-170308
Imen Chaari, Anis Koubâa, Hachemi Bennaceur, Adel Ammar, Maram Alajlan, Habib Youssef

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, SAGE. 2017, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp 1-15.

mRPL+: A mobility management framework in RPL/6LoWPAN CISTER-TR-170303
Hossein Fotouhi, Daniel Moreira, Mário Alves, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi

Computer Communications (COMCOM), Elsevier. 2017, Volume 104, pp 34-54.

Reducing the Complexity of Dataflow Graphs using Slack-based Merging CISTER-TR-160607
Hazem Ali, Sander Stuijk, Benny Åkesson, Luis Miguel Pinho

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Article No 24, ACM. Jan 2017, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp 24:1-24:22.

Performance Analysis of MRC Receivers with Adaptive Modulation and Coding in Rayleigh Fading Correlated Channels with Imperfect CSIT CISTER-TR-161102
Ramiro Robles, Egons Lavendelis, Eduardo Tovar

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Article No 6940368, Hindawi. Jan 2017, Volume 2016, pp 1-12.

Performance Evaluation of Vehicular Platoons using Webots CISTER-TR-170510
Oussama Karoui, Emna Guerfala, Anis Koubâa, Mohamed Khalgui, Eduardo Tovar, Naiqi Wu, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari, Zhiwu Li

IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Institution of Engineering and Technology. 2017, Volume 11, Issue 8, pp 441-449.

RoadSense: Smartphone Application to Estimate Road Conditions using Accelerometer and Gyroscope CISTER-TR-170511
Azza Allouch, Anis Koubâa, Tarek Abbes, Adel Ammar

IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE. 2017, Volume 17, Issue 13, pp 4231-4238.

MyBot: Cloud-Based Service Robot using Service-Oriented Architecture CISTER-TR-170306
Anis Koubâa, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Yasir Javed, Maram Alajlan, Basit Qureshi, Fatma Ellouze, Abdelrahman Mahmoud

robótica, PUBLINDUSTRIA. 2017, Volume 107, pp 8-13.

Real-time semi-partitioned scheduling of fork-join tasks using work-stealing CISTER-TR-170803
Cláudio Maia, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Luis Miguel Nogueira, Luis Miguel Pinho

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Article No 2017:31, Springer International Publishing. 2017, pp 1-14.

Conference or Workshop Papers/Talks

Integrated Analysis of Cache Related Preemption Delays and Cache Persistence Reload Overheads CISTER-TR-170902
Syed Aftab Rashid, Geoffrey Nelissen, Sebastian Altmeyer, Robert Davis, Eduardo Tovar

IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2017 (RTSS 2017). 5 to 8, Dec, 2017, pp 188-198. Paris, France.

Formal Verification of AADL Models Using UPPAAL CISTER-TR-171101
Fernando Gonçalves, David Pereira, Eduardo Tovar, Leandro Becker

VII Brazilian Symposium on Computing Systems Engineering (SBESC 2017). 7 to 10, Nov, 2017, Session 10: Development and Tools - B, pp 117-124. Curitiba, Brasil.

The EnerGAware Middleware Platform CISTER-TR-170801
Paulo Barbosa, António Barros, Luis Miguel Pinho

IECON 2017. 29, Oct to 1, Nov, 2017, 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), pp 8662-8667. Beijing, China.

Improved Response Time Analysis of Sporadic DAG Tasks for Global FP Scheduling CISTER-TR-170901
José Fonseca, Geoffrey Nelissen, Vincent Nélis

International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems 2017 (RTNS 2017). 4 to 6, Oct, 2017, pp 28-37. Grenoble, France.Outstanding Paper and Best Paper Awards

Real-Time Dense Wired Sensor Network Based on Traffic Shaping CISTER-TR-170602
João Loureiro, Raghu R., Borislav Nikolic, Leandro Indrusiak, Eduardo Tovar

23rd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2017). 16 to 18, Aug, 2017. Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Schedulability Analysis for Global Fixed-Priority Scheduling of the 3-Phase Task Model CISTER-TR-170603
Cláudio Maia, Geoffrey Nelissen, Luis Miguel Nogueira, Luis Miguel Pinho, Daniel Gracia Pérez

23rd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2017). 16 to 18, Aug, 2017. Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The Way Cyber Physical Systems Will Revolutionise Maintenance CISTER-TR-170409
Erkki Jantunen, Urko Zurutuza, Michele Albano, Giovanni di Orio, Pedro Maló, Csaba Hegedus

30th Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM 2017). 10 to 13, Jul, 2017, pp 448-456. Preston, United Kingdom.

The P-SOCRATES timing analysis methodology for parallel real-time applications deployed on many-core platforms CISTER-TR-170505
Vincent Nélis, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Luis Miguel Pinho

29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2017), Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. 27 to 30, Jun, 2017, WCET 2017, pp 10:1-10:9. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Increasing Fixed-Priority Schedulability using Non-Periodic Load Shapers CISTER-TR-170506
Mitra Nasri, Geoffrey Nelissen

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29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2017). 27 to 30, Jun, 2017, RTSOPS 2017, pp 17-18. Dubrovnik, Croatia.Best Open Problem Award
http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/rtsops2017/RTSOPS17_proceedings.pdf

Mixed-Criticality Systems with Partial Lockdown and Cache Reclamation Upon Mode Change CISTER-TR-170507
Konstantinos Bletsas, Muhammad Ali Awan, Pedro Souto, Benny Åkesson, Eduardo Tovar

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Work in Progress Session, 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2017). 27 to 30, Jun, 2017, pp 22-24. Dubrovnik, Croatia.http://www.ecrts.org/fileadmin/files_ecrts17/Proceedings_ECRTS-WiP2017.pdf

Mixed-criticality Scheduling with Dynamic Redistribution of Shared Cache CISTER-TR-170202
Muhammad Ali Awan, Konstantinos Bletsas, Pedro Souto, Benny Åkesson, Eduardo Tovar

29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2017). 27 to 30, Jun, 2017, Main track, pp 18:1-18:21. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

PELE: Power Efficient Legitimate Eavesdropping via Jamming in UAV Communications CISTER-TR-170404
Xiaoming Wang, Kai Li, Salil S. Kanhere, Demin Li, Xiaolu Zhang, Eduardo Tovar

13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017). 26 to 30, Jun, 2017, Vehicular Communications Symposium, pp 402-408. Valencia, Spain.

Simulation Module and Tools for XDense Sensor Network CISTER-TR-170401
João Loureiro, Pedro José Santos, Raghu R., Eduardo Tovar

Workshop on NS-3 (WNS3'17). 13 to 14, Jun, 2017, pp 110-117. Porto, Portugal.

Combining Dataflow Applications and Real-time Task Sets on Multi-core Platforms CISTER-TR-170405
Hazem Ali, Benny Åkesson, Luis Miguel Pinho

20th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES 2017). 12 to 13, Jun, 2017, pp 60-63. Sankt Goar, Germany.

OpenMP tasking model for Ada: safety and correctness CISTER-TR-170503
Sara Royuela, Xavier Martorell, Eduardo Quiñones, Luis Miguel Pinho

22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2017). 12 to 16, Jun, 2017, pp 184-200. Vienna, Austria.Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10300)

A serious game enhancing social tenants’ behavioral change towards energy efficiency CISTER-TR-170504
Miquel Casals, Marta Gangolells, Marcel Macarulla, Alba Fuertes, Vincent Vimont, Luis Miguel Pinho

Workshop on Energy Efficient Solutions based on IoT (EESIoT 2017). 6 to 9, Jun, 2017, pp 279-284. Geneve, Switzerland.Workshop of Global IoT Summit 2017

Worst-Case Bound Analysis for the Time-Critical MAC behaviors of IEEE 802.15.4e CISTER-TR-170501
Harrison Kurunathan, Ricardo Severino, Anis Koubâa, Eduardo Tovar

13th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems Communication in Automation (WFCS 2017). 31, May to 2, Jun, 2017, Main track. Trondheim, Norway.

A Pilot for Proactive Maintenance in Industry 4.0 CISTER-TR-170407
Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano, José Silva, Diogo Martinho, Goreti Marreiros, Giovanni di Orio, Pedro Maló, Hugo Ferreira

13th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2017). 31, May to 2, Jun, 2017. Trondheim, Norway.

Quality of Service on the Arrowhead Framework CISTER-TR-170408
Michele Albano, Paulo Barbosa, José Silva, Roberto Duarte, Luis Lino Ferreira, Jerker Delsing

13th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2017). 31, May to 2, Jun, 2017. Trondheim, Norway.

Stability and Delay of Network-Diversity Multiple Access with Backlog Retransmission Control CISTER-TR-170402
Ramiro Robles

The Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing - from Sensing to Applications (SIGNAL 2017). 21 to 25, May, 2017, 5Gsignalwave, pp 62-67. Barcelona, Spain.

Joint Beamforming, Terminal Scheduling, and Adaptive Modulation with Imperfect CSIT in Rayleigh Fading Correlated Channels with Co-channel Interference CISTER-TR-170403
Ramiro Robles

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The Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing - from Sensing to Applications (SIGNAL 2017). 21 to 25, May, 2017, 5Gsignalwave, pp 54-61. Barcelona, Spain.Best Paper Award recipient

On Power Consumption Profiles for Data Intensive Workloads in Virtualized Hadoop Clusters CISTER-TR-170304
Basit Qureshi, Sultan Alwehaibi, Anis Koubâa

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017). 1 to 4, May, 2017, Workshop Big Data and Cloud Performance, pp 42-47. Atlanta, U.S.A..

A Service-Oriented Cloud-Based Management System for the Internet-of-Drones CISTER-TR-170305
Anis Koubâa, Basit Qureshi, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Yasir Javed, Eduardo Tovar

17th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2017). 26 to 30, Apr, 2017, pp 329-335. Coimbra, Portugal.

Xhare-a-Ride: A Search Optimized Dynamic Ride Sharing System with Approximation Guarantee CISTER-TR-181122
Raja Subramaniam Thangaraj, Koyel Mukherjee, Gurulingesh Raravi, Asmita Metrewar, Narendra Annamaneni, Koushik Chattopadhyay

33rd International Conference on Data Engineering 2017 (ICDE 2018). 19 to 22, Apr, 2017, pp 1117-1128. San Diego, CA, U.S.A..

Partitioning and Analysis of the Network-on-Chip on a COTS Many-Core Platform CISTER-TR-170302
Matthias Becker, Borislav Nikolic, Dakshina Dasari, Benny Åkesson, Vincent Nélis, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte

24th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2017). 18 to 20, Apr, 2017, pp 101-112. Pittsburgh, U.S.A..

Semi-partitioned mixed-criticality scheduling CISTER_TR_161102
Muhammad Ali Awan, Konstantinos Bletsas, Pedro Souto, Eduardo Tovar

30th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2017). 3 to 6, Apr, 2017, Session 6: Scheduling, pp 205-218. Vienna, Austria.Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10172).

High-performance parallelisation of real-time applications CISTER-TR-170203
Luis Miguel Pinho, Vincent Nélis, Eduardo Quinoñes, Paolo Burgio, Andrea Marongiu, Paolo Gai, Juan Sancho

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Embedded World Conference 2017. 14 to 16, Mar, 2017, Session 19: HiPEAC – High Performance Embedded Architectures. Nuremberg, Germany.

Conference or Workshop Posters/Demos

Timing Analysis Solutions for Multicore Systems CISTER-TR-170601
Luis Miguel Pinho

Demo in EMC2 Open Day. 31, May to 1, Jun, 2017. Granada.

High-Performance Parallelisation of Real-Time Applications with the Upscale SDK CISTER-TR-170204
Luis Miguel Pinho

Demo in Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2017). 27 to 31, Mar, 2017, 6.8 HiPEAC: European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation. Lausanne.

The Industrial Internet of Things CISTER-TR-170112
Michele Albano, José Silva, Luis Lino Ferreira

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Demo in 22º Seminário da Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis (RTCM 2017). 18, Jan, 2017, Session III. Lisboa.

IoT for Energy-Efficiency: connecting a serious game with energy metering in the EnerGAware project CISTER-TR-170903
Paulo Barbosa, António Barros, Luis Miguel Pinho

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Poster presented in INForum Simpósio de Informática 2017 (INForum 2017). 12 to 13, Oct, 2017. Aveiro, Portugal.

ERRATARIUM for Real-Time Systems CISTER-TR-170703
Geoffrey Nelissen

Poster presented in 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2017). 27 to 30, Jun, 2017, Interactive Session. Dubrovnik, Croatia.During the Interactive Session of ECRTS 2017, Geoffrey Nelissen presented a call for action to build an "Erratarium" for the Real-Time Systems community: a platform that would serve as a centralized repository for errata and discussion forum around errors discovered in published results on real-time systems.

Parallel Software Framework for Time-Critical many-core Systems CISTER-TR-170120
Project consortium

Poster presented in 12th Conference on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HIPEAC 2017). 23 to 25, Jan, 2017, EU Projects Poster Session. Stockholm, Sweden.

Technical Reports

Time-Triggered Co-Scheduling of Computation and Communication with Jitter Requirements CISTER-TR-181123
Anna Minaeva, Benny Åkesson, Zdeněk Hanzálek, Dakshina Dasari

2, Oct, 2017.

Mixed-criticality Scheduling with Dynamic Redistribution of Shared Cache CISTER-TR-181124
Muhammad Ali Awan, Konstantinos Bletsas, Pedro F. Souto, Benny Åkesson, Eduardo Tovar

28, Apr, 2017.

Errata: Timing Analysis of Fixed Priority Self-Suspending Sporadic Tasks CISTER-TR-170205
Geoffrey Nelissen, José Fonseca, Gurulingesh Raravi, Vincent Nélis

2017.

Worst-Case Bound Analysis for the Time-Critical MAC behaviors of IEEE 802.15.4e CISTER-TR-170406
Harrison Kurunathan, Ricardo Severino, Anis Koubâa, Eduardo Tovar

2017.

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