Call for Papers: RTNS 2025

The 33rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2025) invites original unpublished papers on all aspects of real-time, network, and embedded systems. The conference is known for its friendly atmosphere and vibrant community and will be held in Pisa, Italy, from November 5-7, 2025.

Publisher and Proceedings

• Publisher: Proceedings published through Springer LNCS.
• Outstanding papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of Springer Real-Time Systems journal (must have at least 35% new content).

Submission Policy and Rounds

• Policy: Double blind policy.
• Model: 3-round model (major revisions).
• Submission Platform: Submit via HotCRP: https://rtns2025.hotcrp.com/

Topics of Interest

RTNS covers a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Real-time applications design and evaluation: automotive, avionics, space, railways, telecommunications, process control, multimedia.
• Real-time aspects of emerging smart systems: cyber-physical systems, real-time big data, real-time edge/fog and cloud computing, smart grid.
• Real-time system design and analysis: real-time tasks modeling, task/message scheduling, evaluation, mixed-criticality systems, Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) analysis, quality of service, security, thermal and power-aware system design.
• Software technologies for real-time systems: model-driven engineering, programming languages, compilers, WCET-aware compilation and parallelization strategies, middleware, Real-Time Operating Systems, virtualization, hypervisors.
• Formal specification and verification: application of formal models (e.g., model checking, satisfiability modulo theories, constraint programming) to solve real-time problems.
• Real-time distributed systems: fault tolerance, time synchronization, task/messages allocation, adaptability and reconfiguration, publisher/subscriber protocols, distributed real-time database.
• Real-time networks: Networks on Chip (NoC), wired and wireless sensor and actuator networks, Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN), industrial IoT, SDN, 5G, end-to-end latency analysis.
• Hardware support for real-time systems: hardware/software co-design, power/temperature-aware techniques, design of predictable hardware, multi-core and many-core platforms, hardware accelerators, cache related issues, interconnect and memory.

Keynote Speaker

• Björn Brandenburg

Conference Venue

• Campus of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

Important Dates

RTNS 1st Round

• Submission Deadline: January 30, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification: March 27, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera ready: April 27, 2025 (AoE)

RTNS 2nd Round

• Submission Deadline: May 29, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification: July 24, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera ready: September 4, 2025 (AoE)

RTNS 3rd Round

• Submission Deadline: August 14, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification: October 9, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera ready: October 30, 2025 (AoE)

Awards

• Best papers and best student papers awards will be presented.
• Award for the best presentation.

Additional Information

• Transparency: https://rtns2025.retis.santannapisa.it/?page_id=125
• Evaluation Criteria: https://rtns2025.retis.santannapisa.it/?page_id=130
• Submission Guidelines: https://rtns2025.retis.santannapisa.it/?page_id=97
• Organizers: https://rtns2025.retis.santannapisa.it/?page_id=95
• Past Editions: https://rtns2025.retis.santannapisa.it/?page_id=1541