The 27th edition of RTCSA will bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry to promote cross-fertilization and discuss advances and trends in the technology of embedded and real-time systems and their emerging applications, including the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. RTCSA 2021 seeks papers that describe original research in the following areas, but are not limited to:

REAL-TIME SYSTEMS TRACK

Real-Time Scheduling
Workload models for real-time systems
Temperature/Energy-aware Scheduling
Scheduling over heterogeneous architectures
Scheduling over distributed architectures
Timing Analysis
Formal methods for temporal guarantees
Programming Languages and Run-Time Systems
Middleware Systems
Communication Networks and Protocols of Real-Time Systems
Time-Sensitive Media Processing and Transmissions
Latency and throughput in Real-Time Databases

IoT, CPS, AND EMERGING APPLICATIONS TRACK

Systems, Technology and Foundations of IoT and CPS
Applications and Case Studies of IoT and CPS
Smart and Connected Health
Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0
Smart City Technology and Applications
Smart Transportation and Infrastructure
Cyber-Physical Co-Design
Medical CPS
Cloud, Middleware and Networks for IoT and CPS
Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks for IoT and CPS

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS TRACK

Multi-Core Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
Non-Volatile Memory and Storage
Power/Thermal Aware Design
Fault Tolerance and Security
Sensor-based Systems and Applications
Reconfigurable Computing Architectures and Software Support
Ubiquitous and Distributed Embedded Systems and Networks
Embedded Systems for Machine-Learning