Handbook of Real-Time Computing

1. A Real-time Robotic System for Sewing Personalized Stent Grafts

   • Bidan Huang, Ya-Yen Tsai, Guang-Zhong Yang

2. Adaptive Consensus of Multiple Lagrangian Systems

   • Jie Mei

3. Analysis and Design of Synchronization for Heterogeneous Network

   • Yuanqing Wu, Renquan Lu, Peng Shi, Hongye Su, Zheng-Guang Wu

4. Authentication and Integrity Protection for Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems

   • Sye Loong Keoh, Heng Chuan Tan, Zhaohui Tang

5. Cloud Empowered Real-Time Virtual Manufacturing Systems

   • Sourabh Dani, Akhlaqur Rahman, Jiong Jin, Ambarish Kulkarni

6. Complexity of Uniprocessor Scheduling Analysis

   • Pontus Ekberg, Wang Yi

7. Consensus of Multi-agent Systems with Intermittent Communication and Its Extensions

   • Guanghui Wen, Wenwu Yu, Zhisheng Duan, Peijun Wang

8. CyreumE: A Real-Time Situational Awareness and Decision-Making Blockchain-Based Architecture for the Energy Internet

   • Abubakar Sadiq Sani, Dong Yuan, Stephen Ogaji, Zhao Yang Dong

9. Distributed Consensus of Stochastic Delayed Multi-agent Systems Under Asynchronous Switching

   • Xiaotai Wu, Yang Tang, Jinde Cao, Wenbing Zhang

10. Distributed Impulsive Control of Leader-Following Multi-agent Systems

    • Wangli He, Feng Qian, Guanrong Chen, Qing-Long Han

11. Event-Triggered Schemes for Leader-Following Consensus of Multi-agent Systems

    • Wenying Xu, Daniel W. C. Ho

12. Event-Triggering Impulsive Differential Evolution

    • Wei Du, Yang Tang

13. Hierarchical Scheduling

    • Jin Hyun Kim, Deepak Gangadharan, Kyong Hoon Kim, Insik Shin, Insup Lee

14. Impulsive Control of Multi-agent Systems with Partial Information

    • Ming-Feng Ge, Zhi-Wei Liu, Li Ding

15. Interface Design for Embedded and Real-Time Systems

    • Bruce Montgomery

16. Low-Latency Multicast and Broadcast Technologies for Real-Time Applications in Smart Grid

    • Yuemin Ding, Xiaohui Li

17. Mixed-Criticality Uniprocessor Scheduling

    • Sanjoy Baruah

18. Modeling of Real-Time Software Systems

    • Bran Selić

19. Multiprocessor Real-Time Locking Protocols

    • Björn B. Brandenburg

20. On Discrete-Time Convergence for General Linear Multi-agent Systems Under Dynamic Topology

    • Jiahu Qin, Huijun Gao, Changbin Yu

The aim of this handbook is to summarize the recent rapidly developed real-time computing technologies, from theories to applications. This handbook will benefit the readers as a full and quick technical reference with a high-level historic review of technology, detailed technical descriptions and the latest practical applications. In general, the handbook with be divided into three main parts (subjected to be modified): theory, design, and application covering different but not limited to the following topics:
- Real-time operating systems
- Real-time scheduling
- Timing analysis
- Programming languages and run-time systems
- Middleware systems 
- Design and analysis tools
- Real-time aspects of wireless sensor networks
- Energy aware real-time methods

• School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  Yu-Chu Tian

• School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  David Charles Levy

Professor Yu-Chu Tian is a Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the NetCom Discipline within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He is an Australia Research Council CoE  recognized Expert of International Standing, and an Assessor for research grant applications and research quality evaluation for ARC and several other funding agencies and organizations. He is a member of IEEE, IEAust, and IChemE. As an Associate Editor, he is serving the journal of Information Sciences published by Elsevier and Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering published by Wiley. He is an ACM Reviewer for Computing Reviews. He is also acting as a Reviewer for a number of international journals. He is a technology provider to several Australian companies for complex systems engineering, real-time/embedded systems, and intelligent systems and robotics. Dr Tian is currently supervising 9 PhD/Masters students and several postdoc/visiting research fellows.
 
Professor Tian received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering (industrial automation) from Wuhan Institute of Technology, China, in 1982, the M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering (industrial automation/systems engineering) from East China University of Science and Technology, China, in 1987, the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Industrial Automation/Intelligent Control and Decision) from Zhejiang University, China, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Software Engineering from The University of Sydney, Australia, in 2009.
 
Professor Tian joined the Naval Academy of Engineering, China, in 1987, as a Lecturer in systems engineering. From 1994 to 1998, he worked at the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, China, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, he was on leave from Zhejiang University to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as a Research Associate working on complex systems and process control. He moved to Australia in 1998, working as a Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology. In 1999, he was elected as one of the four Western Australia Strategic Research Fellows. Since 2002, he has been working at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, initially as a Lecturer, later as a Senior Lecturer, the Networking Teaching Group Leader and Associate Professor in Computer Science, and currently as a Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the Discipline of Networks and Communications (NetCom). He also worked as a visiting professor in 2007 at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Maryland at College Park, USA.
 
Professor Tian received the prestigious Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Zhejiang Province in 1995 while working at Zhejiang University. He also won the Western Australia State Government Strategic Research Fellowship in 1999.
 
As the Chief Investigator, Professor Tian has won/completed over 20 research grants and projects, including 5 funded by Australian Research Council (ARC), 2 funded by Australian Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and 1 funded by Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). He holds a patent on real-time control of large-scale and continuous galvanizing line. He has published a monograph on computation of mathematical models for complex industrial processes. He has also credited over 160 refereed papers in his publication record.

David C Levy is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney. He was Head of the disciplines of Computer and Software Engineering and Head of School prior to his leaving to pursue a private consulting career. He now acts as a technical advisor to two start-ups, does some occasional teaching in Australia and China and continues to supervise several graduate research projects. He has supervised over 50 graduate students to completion, received grants totaling in excess of 2.5 million and been on the organizing committee of 17 conferences, chairing 6, He is a member of the IEEE, ACM and served on the CDIO Council and on the Real Time Architectures committee of IFAC. He has acted as an assessor for grant applications in South Africa and Australia and has served as a reviewer for many conference papers.

Dr Levy received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa in 1970, followed by the MSc and PhD from the same institution. He taught Electronic Engineering at the University of Natal, with stints at the Technion, Israel and Clemson, USA. After an extended visit to the CSIRO in Australia, Dr Levy took up a position at the University of Sydney in 1994 where he led major curriculum revisions and served as Head of School.

Dr Levy holds two patents on embedded systems for chemical sensors. He has over 200 refereed papers on his publication record, along with a book and two book chapters.

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