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Workshop Chairs

Christian Dietrich
Technische Universität Hamburg

Dakshina Dasari
Robert Bosch GmbH

Daniel Casini
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Gedare Bloom
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Junjie Shi
Technische Universität Dortmund

Marine Sauze-Kadar
CEA-Leti

Ning Zhang
Washington University in St. Louis

Peter Wägemann
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

About

OSPERT 2025 is a satellite workshop of the 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025). Since 2005, OSPERT is a well-known ECRTS workshop and forum for researchers and engineers working on (and with) Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSes) to present advances and trends in RTOS technology, to promote new and existing initiatives and projects, and to identify and discuss the challenges that lie ahead. The workshop, now in its 19^th year, provides the RTOS community with an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, network, and discuss future directions.

Accepted Papers

Thank you to everybody who submitted to OSPERT this year! We had a large number of high-quality submissions, which prompted a competitive reviewing process. The list of accepted papers is now available; please stay tuned for the detailed program.

Yuwen Shen, Jorrit Vander Mynsbrugge, Nima Roshandel, Robin Bouchez, Hamed FirouziPouyaei, Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Bram Vanderborght, Wouter Joosen, Antonio Paolillo. "SentryRT-1: A Case Study in Evaluating Real-Time Linux for Safety-Critical Robotic Perception."

Viktor Reusch. "Bounded Resource Reclamation."

Andreas Kässens, Vitali Fendel, Daniel Lohmann. "IRx: RTOS-Aware Abstract Interpretation using an LLVM-based Interpreter."

Mattia Nicolella, Denis Hoornaert, Renato Mancuso. "RT-Bench: A Long Overdue Update."

Denis Hoornaert, Giulio Corradi, Renato Mancuso, Marco Caccamo. "UltraScale+ SpinalHDL Wrapper: Streamlining Ideas to Bitstream on UltraScale+ platforms."

Attilio Discepoli, Mathias Louis Huygen, Antonio Paolillo. "Compute Kernels as Moldable Tasks: Towards Real-Time Gang Scheduling in GPUs."

Marion Sudvarg, Ye Htet, Roger Chamberlain, Jeremy Buhler, James Buckley. "Call for Collaboration: Contributing to Multi-Messenger Astrophysics."

Daniele Ottaviano. "Real-Time Virtualization on Heterogeneous MPSoCs: A Hands-On Tutorial with Jailhouse and Omnivisor."

Yoshifumi Shu, Yutaka Matsubara, Yixiao Li, Hiroaki Takada. "Towards a Linux-based Unikernel for Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems."

Marion Sudvarg, Ao Li, Sanjoy Baruah, Chris Gill, Ning Zhang. "Tintin: PMU Scheduling to Minimize Uncertainty."

Scope and Topics of Interest

OSPERT is open to a broad spectrum of topics related to providing a reliable, predictable, and efficient operating environment for real-time and embedded applications.

Embedded systems are undergoing a profound transformation with the goal of delivering higher performance for next-generation real-time systems.  Following this trend, research on innovative RTOS architectures and advanced resource management techniques continues to be a hot topic. 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, cache and memory footprint, energy, network bandwidth, etc.), and on 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 cloud environments, where “tail latency” and QoS are a concern. The resulting market pressure continues to blur the line 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 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, accelerator-/FPGA-enabled, architectures
• Support for component-based development

Call for Contributions

OSPERT is a forum for researchers and engineers working on (and with) Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSs) to present recent advances in RTOS technology, promote new and existing initiatives and projects, and identify and discuss the challenges that lie ahead. The workshop, established in 2005, provides the RTOS community with an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, network, and discuss future directions.

OSPERT’25 strives for an interesting, interactive, inclusive, and diverse program. To this end, contributions are solicited in a number of different formats. All proposals and papers will be reviewed by the program committee. OSPERT is open to the following types of contributions with corresponding submission formats. The following types of submissions are sought:

1. technical papers (short papers and full workshop papers);
2. proposals for technical presentations (including talks on open problems, demos & tutorials, calls to action, etc.);
3. proposals for experiment reports (including replication studies, preliminary experiments, and experience reports).