Embedded and real-time computing has seen dramatic growth in recent
years. This growth was underscored by major initiatives in the
international arena, promoting different aspect of this important field.
In the United States, a major NSF initiative has been the planning for a
next generation Internet testbed, called the Global Environment for
Network Innovations (GENI). For the first time, GENI will offer the
research community a national wide-area network that allows controlled
access to router code down to the communication fiber. By freeing
researchers from the ossification of the current Internet, the testbed
will allow radical innovation in protocol design and will support
slicing to isolate concurrent experiments on different network
protocols. GENI can be a significant boost to real-time and embedded
systems research, as it may allow wide-scale experimentation with
fundamentally new concepts in real-time communication for embedded
devices and control. Concurrently, Europe has made important strides
under ARTIST2, a major initiative of the European Union, towards next
generation embedded systems. Several research clusters were supported to
develop and execute visionary missions for fundamental advances in the
area under the auspices of the network of excellence on embedded systems
design. Significant advances have been achieved on compilers and timing
analysis, testing and verification, adaptive real-time, component-based
systems, execution platforms, and control for embedded systems. This
issue invited leaders of the above major international initiatives to
describe their vision and outline for the research community an agenda
of challenges and research problems to undertake in the foreseeable
future. The following three contributions describe embedded system
research directions under GENI in the US, as well as research on
real-time systems and control under ARTIST2 in Europe.
Guest Editors:
Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois
The 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked
Sensor Systems (SenSys 2006)
Boulder, Colorado, November 1-3, 2006
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
(IPSN 2007)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25-27, 2007 Abstract submission: November 6, 2006
Paper submission: November 13, 2006
The 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
(RTSS 2006)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 5-8, 2006
Conclusions of the ARTIST2 Roadmap on Control of Computing Systems
Karl-Erik Årzén, Anders Robertsson, Dan Henriksson Department Automatic Control, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Mikael Johansson, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Karl Henrik Johansson Department of Signals, Sensors and Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Real Time and Embedded (RTE) GENI
Lui Sha University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Ashok Agrawala University of Maryland at College Park
Welcome to the SIGBED Review. The peer-reviewed quarterly publication
provides a dissemination forum for research on embedded computing. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, embedded software, embedded system
architecture, model-based design, distributed real-time middleware, real-time
architectures, feedback control, low-power computing, sensor networks, security,
and embedded applications. Submissions on these and other topics should be sent
by e-mail to Tarek Abdelzaher,
Last update: 07-28-2006
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