Student Presentations
The list of conferences/journals and topics should help you in finding papers
to present in class. Each student has to present 2 topics, each topic
should be based on 1-2 papers, and the 2 topics presented by a student should
not be related. Further, the lists below are merely suggestions/tips where
to start searching. There are countless other conferences and workshops that
have relevant pieces of work (use Google to find conferences, workshops, papers, etc.). Every topic/paper has to be approved 1 week before the presentation.
Presentation style is left to the student, i.e., you can choose Powerpoint
slides, working on the chalk board, etc. The course instructor will put
your papers on the course webpage for students to download. If you want
to distribute additional material (e.g., powerpoint slides), either print
them yourself or send them to the instructor early enough (about 2 days before
the presentation). The presentations will be interactive, i.e., students
may and will interrupt for questions, clarifications, etc. Each presentation
should be about 30 minutes. Please prepare well for your presentation, it will
be part of your final grade!
Relevant Conferences and Journals
- Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
- Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS)
- Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS)
- Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems
and Applications (RTCSA)
- Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
- Real-Time Systems Journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
- Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)
- Conference om Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
- Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
- Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI)
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Suggested Topics
- QoS in Wireless Networks (e.g., 802.11e)
- Real-Time Processing and Communication in Sensor Networks
- Real-Time Aspects of Robotics
- Case Study of a Real-Time Operating System
- Dynamic Voltage Scaling
- Real-Time in Ada
- Real-Time Task Scheduling on Multiprocessors
- Real-Time Databases
- Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis
- Multimedia Computing and Communication
- Real-Time CORBA
- Real-Time Programming Languages
- Fault Tolerance
- Resource Management
- Real-Time Java
- Testing, Debugging
- Energy Management
- Real-Time Cluster Computing
Paper Reviews
Every lecture will discuss 2-3 papers (i.e., 4-6 per week). It is expected that every student submits one detailed paper review per week, i.e., you choose a paper from the schedule BEFORE the presentation, write a detailed review, and
submit this review in the lecture the paper is being presented. Further, every
student will read two more papers per week and write a short review for those.
The rest of the papers can be skipped (but reading those papers too is highly
encouraged). The short review is about 1-2 paragraphs summarizing the problem
that is being addressed, the solution approach, and the conclusions the authors
make. The detailed review (minimum requirements: 1 page, 11pt font, 1.5 lines
spacing or narrower) goes beyond the short review by describing in detail the
solution approach, by discussing the results and measurements provided in
the paper, and by making suggestions of potential future work or describing
problems and mistakes found in the paper.