Program

TCRS ‘26 will be organized as a two-day workshop and take place during ESWEEK on October 8 and 9, 2026, at Hotel Barceló Sants in Barcelona, Spain. Please visit ESWEEK’s webpage for more information about the TCRS workshop venue. Details about the program and location are shown below.

Dates: October 8 and 9, 2026 (Two-day Workshop)
Location: Hotel Barceló Sants

Opening Remarks and Keynote

Thursday, October 8, 9:00-10:30

Opening Remarks: Hokeun Kim

Keynote: “Is Time-Critical the Same as Safety-Critical? Rethinking the Distinction in an Era of AI and Increasing System Complexity” By Prof. Samarjit Chakraborty

Samarjit Chakraborty

Prof. Samarjit Chakraborty is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and an adjunct professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining UNC, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where he held the Chair of Real-Time Computer Systems, and earlier served on the faculty of the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich. His research spans embedded and cyber-physical systems, sustainable computing, and sensor-networked information processing. His work has received several best paper awards and other recognitions. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, a Fellow of the TUM Institute of Advanced Study, and is currently the elected chair of ACM SIGBED, the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems.

Abstract-TBA

Session 1: Languages, Compilation, and Runtime Foundations

Thursday, October 8, 11:00-12:20

Session Chair: Hoeseok Yang

Sebastiano Gaiardelli, Mario Libro, Pietro Turco, Enrico Fraccaroli, Michele Lora, Samarjit Chakraborty, Franco Fummi

1.2 Macros as Abstractions: Simplifying Code Generation for Lingua Franca

Tassilo Tanneberger, Erling R. Jellum, Jeronimo Castrillon, Edward A. Lee

1.3 Lingua Franca on the Patmos Processor

Ehsan Khodadad, Luca Pezzarossa, Martin Schoeberl

1.4 Decentralized Coordination in LF: Timing Correctness and Transient Federate Support

Chadlia Jerad, Edward A. Lee

Session 2: Resilience, Reliability, and Security

Thursday, October 8, 13:30-15:10

Session Chair: Sebastiano Gaiardelli

2.1 Controlled Degradation, Not Dispatch Reordering: Semantics-Preserving Overload Control in Lingua Franca

Yutaka Matsubara, Wenhung Kevin Huang, Akihito Iwai

2.2 Reactor-Based Modeling of Safe Interrupt-Driven Communication for Distributed Embedded Systems

Tejeswini Jayaramareddy, Hokeun Kim, Hoeseok Yang

2.3 Deadline-Bounded Re-execution for Soft-Error Resilience using Reactor Models and Lingua Franca

Hwisoo So, Hokeun Kim

2.4 RACE-MiCS: Reliability-Aware Checkpointing and Execution-Time Bounding for Embedded Mixed-Criticality Systems

Mohammad Abbasinia, Behnaz Ranjbar, Akash Kumar

2.5 RISC-V Microarchitectural Attacks: No Timer, No Problem?

Mahreen Khan, Gaëtan Bois-Baumann, Maria Mushtaq, Renaud Pacalet, Ludovic Apvrille

Session 3: Distributed Timing and Communication

Thursday, October 8, 15:30-16:50

Session Chair: Hokeun Kim

3.1 Replacing Quorums with Time for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

Edward A. Lee, Shulu Li

3.2 Deterministic BLE Communication for Federated Reactors

Sebastiano Gaiardelli, Philipp H. Kindt, Samarjit Chakraborty

3.3 Remote Train Control over WebTransport Orchestrated by Lingua Franca

Rajib Chandra Das, Alexander Schulz-Rosengarten, Reinhard von Hanxleden

3.4 ECAL: An Event-Level Timing Model for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems

Guangyu Feng, Edward A. Lee

Session 4: AI-Enabled Time-Sensitive Systems

Friday, October 9, 9:00-10:20

Session Chair: Edward A. Lee

4.1 Timing Behavior Analysis for Time-Sensitive Distributed Human- and Agent-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems

Deeksha Prahlad, Dongha Kim, Pawan Kumar, Daniel Fan, Hokeun Kim

4.2 Runtime Monitoring of Observation-Delay Tolerant RL Policies Using Lingua Franca

Balkis Oueslati, Chadlia Jerad

4.3 Phase-Aware Memory Repartitioning for Extended-Context Edge LLM Inference

Youngchul Yoon, Soonhoi Ha

4.4 Time-constrained Vision Language Model Inference using Semantic Caching for Autonomous Driving

Chanhee Lee, Manuel Branco Nardi

Session 5: CPS Observability and Resource Management

Friday, October 9, 11:00-12:20

Session Chair: Chadlia Jerad

5.1 Determinism and Reproducibility in Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical System Simulation Using Operational Data

Pawan Kumar, Aditya A. Krishnan, Hokeun Kim

5.2 A Non-Intrusive Data Age Tracer for Real-Time ROS2 Applications

Yundo Choi, Taekyeong Lee, Hyeong Rae Cho, Kyong Hoon Kim

5.3 Tail Service Delay Mitigation for On-Demand Execution Module Streaming in Cloud-Edge Systems

Janghun Lee, Daejin Park

5.4 VEDRA: Verified and Efficient Dynamic Resource Allocation for Real-Time Radio Access Network Scheduling

Debarpita Banerjee, Sumana Ghosh, Snigdha Das, Shilpa Budhkar, Rana Pratap Sircar