Publications

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•     book chapter    
  Evolvement of Scheduling Theories for Autonomous Vehicles
  Wanli Chang, Nan Chen, Shuai Zhao, Xiaotian Dai
  Springer. 2023.
  

•     journal    
  NPRC-I/O: A NoC-based Real-Time I/O System with Reduced Contention and Enhanced Predictability
  Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Ran Wei, Ian Gray, Zonghua Gu, Qingling Zhao, Shuai Zhao
  (TCAD) IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2023.
  

•     journal    
  Context-aware Graceful Degradation for Mixed-Criticality Scheduling in Autonomous Systems
  Jie Zou, Xiaotian Dai, John A McDermid
  (TCAD) IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2023.
  

•     conference    
  Cache-Aware Allocation of Parallel Jobs on Multi-cores based on Learned Recency
  Shuai Zhao, Xiaotian Dai, Benjamin Lesage, Iain Bate
  (RTNS'23) International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems. 2023.
  

•     conference    
  Reducing Loss of Service for Mixed-Criticality Systems through Cache- and Stress-Aware Scheduling
  Benjamin Lesage, Xiaotian Dai, Shuai Zhao, Iain Bate
  (RTNS'23) International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems. 2023.
  

•    workshop   
  Many-Core Real-Time Network-on-Chip I/O Systems for Reducing Contention and Enhancing Predictability
  Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Ian Gray
  (RAGE'23) Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop (RAGE 2023 @ CPS-IoT Week). 2023.
  

•    workshop   
  Graceful Degradation with Condition- and Inference-aware for Mixed-Criticality Scheduling in Autonomous Systems
  Jie Zou, Xiaotian Dai, John McDermid
  (RAGE'23) Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop (RAGE 2023 @ CPS-IoT Week). 2023.
  

•    workshop   
  A High-Resilience Imprecise Computing Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Systems
  Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Alan Burns, Neil Audsley, Zonghua Gu, Ian Gray
  (WMC'22) (*) Invited paper at 9th Workshop on Mixed-Criticality Systems (WMC 2022 @ RTSS). 2022
  [Paper]

•     journal    
  A High-Resilience Imprecise Computing Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Systems
  Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Alan Burns, Neil Audsley, Zonghua Gu, Ian Gray
  (TC) IEEE Transactions on Computers. 2022.
  [Paper]

•     conference    
  Using Digital Twins in the Development of Complex Dependable Real-Time Embedded Systems
  Xiaotian Dai, Shuai Zhao, Benjamin Lesage, Iain Bate
  (ISoLA'22) 11th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. 2022.
  [Paper] | [Slides]

•     journal    
  reTSN: Resilient and Efficient Time-Sensitive Network for Automotive In-Vehicle Communication
  Zou Jie, Xiaotian Dai, John McDermid
  (TCAD) IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2022.
  [Paper]

•     journal    
  DAG Scheduling and Analysis on Multi-core Systems by Modelling Parallelism and Dependency
  Shuai Zhao, Xiaotian Dai, Iain Bate
  (TPDS) IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 2022.
  [Paper]

•    WiP paper   
  Resilience-aware Mixed-criticality DAG Scheduling on Multi-cores for Autonomous Systems
  Zou Jie, Xiaotian Dai, John A. McDermid
  (AEiC'22) International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies. 2022.
  [Paper] | [Slides] | [Poster]

•     conference    
  Discretization and Stabilization of Energy-based Controller for Period Switching Control and Flexible Scheduling
  Seyed A. Tafrishi, Xiaotian Dai, Yasuhisa Hirata, Alan Burns
  (ACC'22) American Control Conference. 2022.
  [Paper] | [Slides]

•     conference    
  HIART-MCS: High Resilience and Approximated Computing Architecture for Imprecise Mixed-Criticality Systems
  Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Neil Audsley
  (RTSS'21) 42th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. 2021.
  [Paper] | [Code]

•     conference    
  Brief Industry Paper: Digital Twin for Dependable Multi-Core Real-Time Systems --- Requirements and Open Challenges
  Xiaotian Dai, Shuai Zhao, Iain Bate, Alan Burns, Xing Guo, Wanli Chang.
  (RTAS'21) IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium. 2021.
  [Paper]
  

•     journal    
  Towards an Analysable, Scalable, Energy-Efficient I/O Virtualization for Mixed-Criticality Systems
  Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Pan Dong, Ran Wei, Dawei Yang, Neil Audsley, Nan Guan
  (TCAD) IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2021.
  [Paper]

•     journal    
  Line-Circle-Square (LCS): A Multilayered Geometric Filter for Edge-Based Detection
  Seyed A. Tafrishi, Xiaotian Dai, Vahid E. Kandjani
  (RAS) Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2021.
  [Paper] | [Video] | [Code]

•     conference    
  DAG Scheduling and Analysis on Multiprocessor Systems: Exploitation of Parallelism and Dependency
  Shuai Zhao, Xiaotian Dai, Iain Bate, Alan Burns, Wanli Chang
  (RTSS'20) 41th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. 2020.
  [Paper] | [Video] | [Code]

•     conference    
  Fixed-Priority Scheduling and Controller Co-Design for Time-Sensitive Networks
  Xiaotian Dai, Shuai Zhao, Yu Jiang, Xun Jiao, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Wanli Chang
  (ICCAD'20) International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 2020.
  (*) Best Paper Nomination
  [Paper] | [Video] | [Code]

•     conference    
  Timing-Accurate General-Purpose I/O for Multi- and Many-Core Systems: Scheduling and Hardware Support
  Shuai Zhao, Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Iain Bate, Ibrahim Habli, Wanli Chang
  (DAC'20) Design Automation Conference. 2020.
  [Paper]
  

•     conference    
  All in One Network for Driver Attention Monitoring
  Dawei Yang, Xinlei Li, Xiaotian Dai, Rui Zhang, Lizhe Qi, Wenqiang Zhang, Zhe Jiang
  (ICASSP'20) 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Processing. 2020.
  [Paper]
  

•     journal    
  Period Adaptation of Real-Time Control Tasks with Fixed-Priority Scheduling in Cyber-Physical Systems
  Xiaotian Dai, Alan Burns.
  (JSA) Journal of Systems Architecture. 2020.
  (*) Accepted and presented at Ada-Europe 2019.
  [Paper] | [Code]

•     conference    
  MCS-IOV: Real-time I/O Virtualization for Mixed-Criticality Systems
  Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, Pan Dong, Nan Guan, Xiaotian Dai, Lifeng Wei
  (RTSS'19) 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. 2019.
  [Paper]
  

•     thesis    
  Flexible and Adaptive Real-Time Task Scheduling in Cyber-Physical Control Systems
  Xiaotian Dai
  PhD Thesis. University of York. 2019.
  (*) Best Thesis Award, Computer Science Department, University of York.
  [Thesis]

•     journal    
  A Dual-Mode Strategy for Performance-Maximisation and Resource-Efficient CPS Design
  Xiaotian Dai, Wanli Chang, Shuai Zhao, Alan Burns
  (TECS) ACM Transaction on Embedded Computer System. 2019.
  (*) Accepted and presented at EMSOFT 2019.
  [Paper] | [Slides] | [Code]

•     journal    
  Model Based System Assurance Using the Structured Assurance Case Metamodel
  Ran Wei, Tim Kelly, Xiaotian Dai, Shuai Zhao, Richard Hawkins
  (JSS) Journal of Software Systems. 2019.
  [Paper]
  

•     conference    
  Predicting Worst-Case Execution Times in Long-Lived Real-Time Systems
  Xiaotian Dai, Alan Burns
  (AEiC'17) International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies. 2017.
  [Paper] | [Code]

•     thesis    
  Visual-Based Localization and Tracking of a UGV with a Quadcopter
  Xiaotian Dai
  Master Thesis. University of Sheffield. 2014.
  [Thesis]