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book chapter
#Real-Time Systems
Evolvement of Scheduling Theories for Autonomous Vehicles
Wanli Chang, Nan Chen, Shuai Zhao, Xiaotian Dai
Springer. 2023.
[Chapter]
journal
#Real-Time Systems
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.
[Paper]
journal
#Real-Time Systems
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.
[Paper]
conference
#Real-Time Systems
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.
[Paper]
conference
#Real-Time Systems
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.
[Paper]
workshop
#Real-Time Systems
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.
[Paper]
workshop
#Real-Time Systems
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.
[Paper]
workshop
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Control Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Robotics #Vision
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Safety Engineering
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
#Real-Time Systems
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
#Robotics
Visual-Based Localization and Tracking of a UGV with a Quadcopter
Xiaotian Dai
Master Thesis. University of Sheffield. 2014.
[Thesis]