Topic of Interest

The 32nd 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 2026 seeks papers that describe original research in the following areas, but are not limited to:

*** REAL-TIME SYSTEMS TRACK ***

Real-Time scheduling
Timing analysis
Workload models for real-time systems
Temperature/Energy-aware scheduling
Scheduling and resource management in heterogeneous architectures
Scheduling over distributed architectures
Formal methods for temporal guarantees
Programming languages and run-time systems
Analyzing, understanding, and improving timing predictability of middlewares (ROS, Ray, Kubernete, …)
Communication networks and protocols for real-time systems
Time-sensitive media processing and transmissions
Latency and throughput in real-time databases
Real-time machine learning
Learning-enabled real-time systems
Learning-assisted real-time systems

*** 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
Cloud, middleware and networks for IoT and CPS
Wireless sensor-actuator networks for IoT and CPS
Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) for IoT
Emerging IoT protocols and network abstractions including 5G/6G
Medical CPS
CPS software/system engineering

*** EMBEDDED SYSTEMS TRACK ***

Multi-core embedded systems
Operating systems
Compiler and embedded software
Embedded system design tools and methodologies
Non-volatile memory and storage
Power/Thermal aware design
Fault tolerance, reliability and security
Sensor-based systems and applications
Embedded Systems for Machine-Learning
Reconfigurable computing architectures and software support
Ubiquitous and distributed embedded systems and networks