RTSS 2025: Call for Papers

The 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) will be held in Boston, MA, USA, December 2–5, 2025.

RTSS is the premier conference in the field of real-time systems. It is an expansive and inclusive event that embraces new and emerging areas of real-time systems research.

Scope of the Conference

RTSS is the premier conference in the field of real-time systems, where researchers and practitioners showcase innovations covering all aspects of real-time systems, including theory, design, analysis, implementation, verification, evaluation, and experience.

Tracks

RTSS’25 welcomes submissions of high-quality, original research papers related to both real-time systems theory and practice. Manuscripts may be submitted to either:

• Track 1: Real-Time Systems and Foundations
• Track 2: Design and Applications (Cyber-Physical Systems, HW-SW integration and system-level design, and Internet of Things (IoT))

Track 1: Real-Time Systems and Foundations

This track focuses on the practical and theoretical foundations that enable predictable timing in computing systems.

• Core real-time operating systems components (e.g., kernels, hypervisors, middleware, and runtime environments)
• Schedulability analysis and scheduling algorithms
• Theoretical foundations of real-time systems and verification methods
• Timing analysis—such as worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis and measurement-based timing analysis (MBTA)
• Timing-predictable hardware architectures addressing general principles
• Modeling and analysis of stochastic real-time systems
• Rigorous statistical and empirical approaches to timing predictability
• Fault tolerance and security in relation to timing guarantees
• Compiler techniques, system synthesis, model-driven engineering, and applied formal methods
• Experimental system designs, case studies, and experience reports
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) for real-time systems

Track 2: Design and Applications

This track focuses on real-time systems in a broader systems context, particularly emphasizing novel research on designs, implementations, and applications where real-time requirements are an integral part of a larger system or objective.

• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Real-Time System Design for Artificial Intelligence
• HW-SW Integration and System-Level Design
• Internet of Things (IoT)

Timing Requirements

ALL submissions must explicitly address some form of real-time requirements / constraints.

Common examples include deadlines, response-time bounds, thresholds on acceptable tail latencies, and statistical/stochastic notions of timeliness. Submissions should provide a compelling justification that the problem requires some nontrivial resource allocation, programming, scheduling, or design approach to satisfy timing-predicability requirements.

Surveys and User Studies

Empirical survey-based research focused on the real-time systems field is also welcome. Note that literature surveys that solely classify, review, and summarize existing research papers are not considered empirical research and are not in scope of the conference.

Proceedings and Awards

All accepted papers will appear in the main program and proceedings (provided they are presented at the conference).

A selection of papers will receive recognition as outstanding papers. Best paper and best student paper awards will be presented at the conference, along with an award for the best presentation. Submissions are eligible for the best student paper award provided that the first author is a student as of the submission deadline.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline (firm): May 22, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
• Author Response Period: July 14-17, 2025
• Author Notification: July 25, 2025
• Camera-Ready Deadline: September 16, 2025 (tentative)
• Conference: December 2–5, 2025