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Front Matter
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.11.1.0
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Artifact Evaluation Process, Artifact Evaluation Committee

Authors: Catherine E. Nemitz and Bryan C. Ward

Published in: DARTS, Volume 11, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025)

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Front Matter, Table of Contents, Artifact Evaluation Process, Artifact Evaluation Committee
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Special Issue of the 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 0:i-0:x, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@Article{nemitz_et_al:DARTS.11.1.0,
  author =	{Nemitz, Catherine E. and Ward, Bryan C.},
  title =	{{Front Matter, Table of Contents, Artifact Evaluation Process, Artifact Evaluation Committee}},
  pages =	{0:i--0:x},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{11},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Nemitz, Catherine E. and Ward, Bryan C.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.11.1.0},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237736},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.11.1.0},
  annote =	{Keywords: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Artifact Evaluation Process, Artifact Evaluation Committee}
}
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Artifact
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.7.1.3
Light Reading: Optimizing Reader/Writer Locking for Read-Dominant Real-Time Workloads (Artifact)

Authors: Catherine E. Nemitz, Shai Caspin, James H. Anderson, and Bryan C. Ward

Published in: DARTS, Volume 7, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021)

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This paper is directed at reader/writer locking for read-dominant real-time workloads. It is shown that state-of-the-art real-time reader/writer locking protocols are subject to performance limitations when reads dominate, and that existing schedulability analysis fails to leverage the sparsity of writes in this case. A new reader/writer locking-protocol implementation and new inflation-free schedulability analysis are proposed to address these problems. Overhead evaluations of the new implementation show a decrease in overheads of up to 70% over previous implementations, leading to throughput for read operations increasing by up to 450%. Schedulability experiments are presented that show that the analysis results in schedulability improvements of up to 156.8% compared to the existing state-of-the-art approach.
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Catherine E. Nemitz, Shai Caspin, James H. Anderson, and Bryan C. Ward. Light Reading: Optimizing Reader/Writer Locking for Read-Dominant Real-Time Workloads (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 3:1-3:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@Article{nemitz_et_al:DARTS.7.1.3,
  author =	{Nemitz, Catherine E. and Caspin, Shai and Anderson, James H. and Ward, Bryan C.},
  title =	{{Light Reading: Optimizing Reader/Writer Locking for Read-Dominant Real-Time Workloads (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{3:1--3:3},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{7},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Nemitz, Catherine E. and Caspin, Shai and Anderson, James H. and Ward, Bryan C.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.7.1.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-139828},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.7.1.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reader/writer, real-time, synchronization, spinlock, RMR complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.6
Light Reading: Optimizing Reader/Writer Locking for Read-Dominant Real-Time Workloads

Authors: Catherine E. Nemitz, Shai Caspin, James H. Anderson, and Bryan C. Ward

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 196, 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021)

Abstract
This paper is directed at reader/writer locking for read-dominant real-time workloads. It is shown that state-of-the-art real-time reader/writer locking protocols are subject to performance limitations when reads dominate, and that existing schedulability analysis fails to leverage the sparsity of writes in this case. A new reader/writer locking-protocol implementation and new inflation-free schedulability analysis are proposed to address these problems. Overhead evaluations of the new implementation show a decrease in overheads of up to 70% over previous implementations, leading to throughput for read operations increasing by up to 450%. Schedulability experiments are presented that show that the analysis results in schedulability improvements of up to 156.8% compared to the existing state-of-the-art approach.
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Catherine E. Nemitz, Shai Caspin, James H. Anderson, and Bryan C. Ward. Light Reading: Optimizing Reader/Writer Locking for Read-Dominant Real-Time Workloads. In 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 196, pp. 6:1-6:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{nemitz_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.6,
  author =	{Nemitz, Catherine E. and Caspin, Shai and Anderson, James H. and Ward, Bryan C.},
  title =	{{Light Reading: Optimizing Reader/Writer Locking for Read-Dominant Real-Time Workloads}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-192-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{196},
  editor =	{Brandenburg, Bj\"{o}rn B.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-139378},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reader/writer, real-time, synchronization, spinlock, RMR complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2019.2
Control-Flow Integrity for Real-Time Embedded Systems

Authors: Robert J. Walls, Nicholas F. Brown, Thomas Le Baron, Craig A. Shue, Hamed Okhravi, and Bryan C. Ward

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 133, 31st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2019)

Abstract
Attacks on real-time embedded systems can endanger lives and critical infrastructure. Despite this, techniques for securing embedded systems software have not been widely studied. Many existing security techniques for general-purpose computers rely on assumptions that do not hold in the embedded case. This paper focuses on one such technique, control-flow integrity (CFI), that has been vetted as an effective countermeasure against control-flow hijacking attacks on general-purpose computing systems. Without the process isolation and fine-grained memory protections provided by a general-purpose computer with a rich operating system, CFI cannot provide any security guarantees. This work proposes RECFISH, a system for providing CFI guarantees on ARM Cortex-R devices running minimal real-time operating systems. We provide techniques for protecting runtime structures, isolating processes, and instrumenting compiled ARM binaries with CFI protection. We empirically evaluate RECFISH and its performance implications for real-time systems. Our results suggest RECFISH can be directly applied to binaries without compromising real-time performance; in a test of over six million realistic task systems running FreeRTOS, 85% were still schedulable after adding RECFISH.
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Robert J. Walls, Nicholas F. Brown, Thomas Le Baron, Craig A. Shue, Hamed Okhravi, and Bryan C. Ward. Control-Flow Integrity for Real-Time Embedded Systems. In 31st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 133, pp. 2:1-2:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{walls_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2019.2,
  author =	{Walls, Robert J. and Brown, Nicholas F. and Le Baron, Thomas and Shue, Craig A. and Okhravi, Hamed and Ward, Bryan C.},
  title =	{{Control-Flow Integrity for Real-Time Embedded Systems}},
  booktitle =	{31st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2019)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-110-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{133},
  editor =	{Quinton, Sophie},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2019.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-107397},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2019.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Control-flow integrity}
}
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