Alessandro Biondi

2023 and 2024

• Matteo Zini, Filip Markovic, Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Björn B. Brandenburg, "In Search of Butterflies: Exceedance Analysis for Real-Time Systems under Transient Overload", In Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2024), York, United Kingdom, December 10-13, 2024.


• Veronica Rispo, Federico Aromolo, Daniel Casini, and Alessandro Biondi, "Response-Time Analysis of Bundled Gang Tasks Under Partitioned FP Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 2534-2547, Nov. 2024.


• Andrea Stevanato, Matteo Zini, Alessandro Biondi, Bruno Morelli, Alessandro Biasci, "Learning Memory-Contention Timing Models With Automated Platform Profiling", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, to appear, 2024. Presented at the 2024 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), Raleigh, NC, USA, Sept. 29 - Oct. 4, 2024.


• Federico Nesti, Giulio Rossolini, Gianluca D'Amico, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo, "CARLA-GeAR: a Dataset Generator for a Systematic Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness of Vision Models", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, to appear, 2024.
  [PDF] [arXiv preprint]


• Francesco Paladino, Alessandro Biondi, Enrico Bini, and Paolo Pazzaglia, "Optimizing per-Core Priorities to Minimize End-to-End Latencies", In Proceedings of the 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024), July 9-12, 2024, Lille, France.


• Raffaele Giannessi, Alessandro Biondi, and Alessandro Biasci, "RT-Mimalloc: A New Look at Dynamic Memory Allocation for Real-Time Systems", In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2024), May 13-16, 2024, Hong Kong, China.
  [PDF]


• Giulio Rossolini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Attention-Based Real-Time Defenses for Physical Adversarial Attacks in Vision Applications", In Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2024), May 13-16, 2024, Hong Kong, China.
  [PDF]


• Gerlando Sciangula, Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Claudio Scordino, "End-to-End Latency Optimization of Thread Chains Under the DDS Publish/Subscribe Middleware", in Proceedings of the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2024), March 25-27, 2024, Valencia, Spain.


• Thomas Benz, Alessandro Ottaviano, Robert Balas, Angelo Garofalo, Francesco Restuccia, Alessandro Biondi, Luca Benini, "AXI-REALM: A Lightweight and Modular Interconnect Extension for Traffic Regulation and Monitoring of Heterogeneous Real-Time SoCs", in Proceedings of the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2024), March 25-27, 2024, Valencia, Spain.
  [arXiv Preprint]


• Giulio Rossolini, Federico Nesti, Gianluca D'Amico, Saasha Nair, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "On the Real-World Adversarial Robustness of Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Models for Autonomous Driving", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, to appear, 2023.
  [arXiv preprint]


• Davide Bellassai, Alessandro Biondi, Alessandro Biasci, and Bruno Morelli, "Supporting Logical Execution Time in Multi-Core POSIX Systems", Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 144, November 2023.
  [PDF]


• Edoardo Cittadini, Mauro Marinoni, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgiomaria Cicero, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Supporting AI-Powered Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems on Heterogeneous Platforms via Hypervisor Technology", Real-Time Systems, Volume 59, 2023.
  [Open access]


• Federico Aromolo, Geoffrey Nelissen, Alessandro Biondi, "Replication-Based Scheduling of Parallel Real-Time Tasks", In Proceedings of the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023), July 11-14, 2023.
  [PDF]


• Gerlando Sciangula, Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, Claudio Scordino, Marco Di Natale, "Bounding the Data-Delivery Latency of DDS Messages in Real-Time Applications", In Proceedings of the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023), July 11-14, 2023.
  [PDF]


• Sandro Di Leonardi, Federico Aromolo, Pietro Fara, Gabriele Serra, Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Maximizing the Security Level of Real-Time Software while Preserving Temporal Constraints", IEEE Access, Volume 11, April 2023.
  [Open access]


• Andrea Stevanato, Alessandro Biondi, Alessandro Biasci, and Bruno Morelli, "Virtualized DDS Communication for Multi-Domain Systems: Architecture and Performance Evaluation of Design Alternatives", in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), San Antonio, USA, May 9-12, 2023.


• Fabio Brau, Giulio Rossolini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Robust-by-Design Classification via Unitary-Gradient Neural Networks", in Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Washington DC, USA, February 2023.
  [PDF (preprint)] [arXiv]


• Giulio Rossolini, Federico Nesti, Fabio Brau, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Defending From Physically-Realizable Adversarial Attacks Through Internal Over-Activation Analysis", in Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Washington DC, USA, February 2023.
  [PDF (preprint)] [arXiv]


• Francesco Restuccia, Marco Pagani, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Bounding Memory Access Times in Multi-Accelerator Architectures on FPGA SoCs", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 72, Issue 1, January 2023.
  [PDF]


• Matteo Zini, Daniel Casini, and Alessandro Biondi, "Analyzing Arm's MPAM From the Perspective of Time Predictability", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 72, Issue 1, January 2023.
  [Open access]


• Fabrio Brau, Giulio Rossolini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "On the Minimal Adversarial Perturbation for Deep Neural Networks with Provable Estimation Error", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 45, Issue 4, April 2023.
  [PDF]


• Giulio Rossolini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Increasing the Confidence of Deep Neural Networks by Coverage Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 49, Issue 2, February 2023.
  [arXiv preprint]


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Marco Di Natale, "Optimizing Inter-Core Communications under the LET Paradigm using DMA Engines", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 72, Issue 1, January 2023.

2022

• Luca Abeni, Alessandro Biondi, and Enrico Bini, "Partitioning Real-Time Workloads on Multi-Core Virtual Machines", Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 131, October 2022.


• Niccolò Borgioli, Matteo Zini, Daniel Casini, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "An I/O Virtualization Framework with I/O-Related Memory Contention Control for Real-Time Systems", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Volume 41, Issue 11, November 2022. Presented at the 2022 ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Shangai, China, October 7-14, 2022.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini and Alessandro Biondi, "Placement of Chains of Real-Time Tasks on Heterogeneous Platforms under EDF Scheduling", In Proceedings of the 25th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, August 31 - September 2, 2022.


• Gerlando Sciangula, Francesco Restuccia, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Hardware Acceleration of Deep Neural Networks for Autonomous Driving on FPGA-based SoC", In Proceedings of the 25th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, August 31 - September 2, 2022.
  [PDF]


• Federico Aromolo, Alessandro Biondi, and Geoffrey Nelissen, "Response-Time Analysis for Self-Suspending Tasks Under EDF Scheduling", In Proceedings of the 34th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2022) July 5-8, 2022.
  [PDF]


• Gabriele Serra, Pietro Fara, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Francesco Restuccia, and Alessandro Biondi, "PAC-PL: Enabling Control-Flow Integrity with Pointer Authentication in FPGA SoC Platforms", In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2022), May 4-6, 2022.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, and Marco Di Natale, "Optimized Partitioning and Priority Assignment of Real-Time Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms with Hardware Acceleration", Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 124, March 2022.
  [PDF]


• Francesco Restuccia, Marco Pagani, Agostino Mascitti, Michael Barrow, Mauro Marinoni, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo, and Ryan Kastner, "ARTe: Providing Real-Time Multitasking to Arduino", Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 186, April 2022.
  [PDF]


• Marco Pagani, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, Lorenzo Molinari, Giuseppe Lipari, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Linux-Based Support for Developing Real-Time Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms with Dynamic FPGA Reconfiguration", Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 129, April 2022. Awarded as Editor's Choice in Spring 2023
  [PDF]


• Francesco Restuccia and Alessandro Biondi, "Time-Predictable Acceleration of Deep Neural Networks on FPGA SoC Platforms", 42nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2021), Dortmund, Germany, December 7-10, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Matteo Zini, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Daniel Casini, and Alessandro Biondi, "Profiling and Controlling I/O-related Memory Contention in COTS Heterogeneous Platforms", Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 52, Issue 5, May 2022.
  [Open access]


• Giulio Rossolini, Federico Nesti, Saasha Nair, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Evaluating the Robustness of Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving against Real-World Adversarial Patch Attacks", 2022 IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV 2022), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, January 2022.
  [arXiv preprint]

2021

• Luca Belluardo, Andrea Stevanato, Daniel Casini, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Multi-Domain Software Architecture for Safe and Secure Autonomous Driving", In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2021), August 18-20, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Federico Nesti, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Detecting Adversarial Examples by Input Transformations, Defense Perturbations, and Voting", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, August 2021.
  [arXiv preprint]


• Pietro Fara, Gabriele Serra, Ciro Donnarumma, and Alessandro Biondi, "Scheduling Replica Voting in Fixed-Priority Real-Time Systems", In Proceedings of the 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021), July 5-9, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Marco Di Natale, "Optimal Memory Allocation and Scheduling for DMA Data Transfers under the LET Paradigm", In Proceedings of the 58th ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2021), San Francisco, CA, USA, December 5-9, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgiomaria Cicero, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Latency Analysis of I/O Virtualization Techniques in Hypervisor-Based Real-Time Systems", In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2021), May 18-21, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Federico Aromolo, Alessandro Biondi, Geoffrey Nelissen, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Event-driven Delay-induced Tasks: Model, Analysis, and Applications", In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2021), May 18-21, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Task Splitting and Load Balancing of Dynamic Real-Time Workloads for Semi-Partitioned EDF", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Biruk Seyoum, Marco Pagani, Alessandro Biondi, Sara Balleri, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Spatio-Temporal Optimization of Deep Neural Networks for Reconfigurable FPGA SoCs", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 70, Issue 11, 2021.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Daniel Casini, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Niccolò Borgioli, Giorgio Buttazzo, et al., "SPHERE: A Multi-SoC Architecture for Next-generation Cyber-Physical Systems Based on Heterogeneous Platforms", IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 75446-75459, May 2021
  [PDF]


• Biruk Seyoum, Marco Pagani, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Automating the Design Flow under Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for Hardware-Software Co-design in FPGA SoC", In Proceedings of the 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2021), March 22-26, 2021.
  [PDF]

2020

• Ciro Donnarumma, Alessandro Biondi, Francesco De Rosa, and Stefano Di Carlo, "Integrating Online Safety-related Memory Tests in Multicore Real-Time Systems", In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2020), December 1-4, 2020.
  [PDF]


• Francesco Restuccia, Marco Pagani, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Modeling and Analysis of Bus Contention for Hardware Accelerators in FPGA SoCs", In Proceedings of the 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2020), July 7-10, 2020.
  [PDF]


• Francesco Restuccia, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgiomaria Cicero, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "AXI HyperConnect: A Predictable, Hypervisor-level AXI Interconnect for Hardware Accelerators in FPGA SoC", In Proceedings of the 57th ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2020), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 19-23, 2020.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Predictable Memory-CPU Co-Scheduling with Support for Latency-sensitive Tasks", In Proceedings of the 57th ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2020), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 19-23, 2020.
  [PDF]


• Eduardo Quinones, Sara Royuela, Claudio Scordino, Paolo Gai, Luis Miguel Pinho, Luis Nogueira, Jan Rollo, Tommaso Cucinotta, Alessandro Biondi, Arne Hamann, Dirk Ziegenbein, Hadi Saoud, Romain Soulat, Björn Forsberg, Luca Benini, Gianluca Mando, and Luigi Rucher, "The AMPERE Project: A Model-driven Development Framework for Highly Parallel and Energy-efficient Computation Supporting Multi-criteria Optimization", In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2020), Nashville, TN, USA, May 19-21, 2020.


• Francesco Restuccia, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Safely Preventing Unbounded Delays During Bus Transactions in FPGA-based SoC", In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM 2020), Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, May 3-6, 2020.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, Geoffrey Nelissen, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Holistic Memory Contention Analysis for Parallel Real-Time Tasks under Partitioned Scheduling", In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2020), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2020.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Timing Isolation and Improved Scheduling of Deep Neural Networks for Real-Time Systems", Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 50, Issue 9, September 2020.
  [Wiley Online Library]

2019

• Alessandro Biondi, Federico Nesti, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Daniel Casini, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Safe, Secure, and Predictable Software Architecture for Deep Learning in Safety-Critical Systems", IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2020.
  [PDF]


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, and Marco Di Natale, "Optimizing the Functional Deployment on Multicore Platforms with Logical Execution Time", In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2019), Hong Kong, China, December 3-6, 2019.
  [PDF]


• Biruk Seyoum, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "FLORA: FLoorplan Optimizer for Reconfigurable Areas in FPGAs", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Volume 18, Issue 5s, October 2019. Presented at the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2019), New York, USA, October 13 - 18, 2019.
  [PDF]


• Francesco Restuccia, Marco Pagani, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Is Your Bus Arbiter Really Fair? Restoring Fairness in AXI Interconnects for FPGA SoCs", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Volume 18, Issue 5s, October 2019. Presented at the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES 2019), New York, USA, October 13 - 18, 2019.
  [PDF]


• Marco Pagani, Enrico Rossi, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, Giuseppe Lipari, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Bandwidth Reservation Mechanism for AXI-based Hardware Accelerators on FPGAs", In Proceedings of the 31st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 19), Stuttgart, Germany, July 9-12, 2019.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Analyzing Parallel Real-Time Tasks Implemented with Thread Pools", In Proceedings of the 56th ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2019), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2-6, 2019.
  [PDF]


• Luca Abeni, Alessandro Biondi, and Enrico Bini, "Hierarchical Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks over Linux-based Virtual Machines", Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 149, March 2019.
  [ScienceDirect]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Handling Transients of Dynamic Real-Time Workload Under EDF Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 68, Issue 6, June 2019.
  [PDF]


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, and Marco Di Natale, "Simple and General Methods for Fixed-Priority Schedulability in Optimization Problems", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE 2019), Florence, Italy, March 25-29, 2019.
  [PDF]


• Giulia Ferri, Giorgiomaria Cicero, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Towards the Hypervision of Hardware-based Control-Flow Integrity for Arm Platforms", In Proceedings of the Italian Conference on CyberSecurity (ITASEC 2019), Pisa, Italy, February 12-15, 2019.
  [PDF]

2018

• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, Geoffrey Nelissen, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Memory Feasibility Analysis of Parallel Tasks Running on Scratchpad-Based Architectures", In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2018), Nashville, TN, USA, December 11-14, 2018. Best Presentation Award
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, Geoffrey Nelissen, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Partitioned Fixed-Priority Scheduling of Parallel Tasks Without Preemptions", In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2018), Nashville, TN, USA, December 11-14, 2018.
  [PDF]


• Geoffrey Nelissen and Alessandro Biondi, "The SRP Resource Sharing Protocol for Self-Suspending Tasks", In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2018), Nashville, TN, USA, December 11-14, 2018.
  [PDF]


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Luigi Pannocchi, Alessandro Biondi, and Marco Di Natale, "Beyond the Weakly Hard Model: Measuring the Performance Cost of Deadline Misses", In Proceedings of the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 18), Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6, 2018.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi and Marco Di Natale, "Achieving Predictable Multicore Execution of Automotive Applications Using the LET Paradigm", In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2018), Porto, Portugal, April 11-13, 2018.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi and Youcheng Sun, "On the Ineffectiveness of 1/m-based Interference Bounds in the Analysis of Global EDF and FIFO Scheduling", Real-Time Systems Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, pp 515–536, July 2018.
  [PDF] [Complete data set]


• Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo and Marko Bertogna, "A Design Flow for Supporting Component-based Software Development in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems", Real-Time Systems Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 2018.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgio Buttazzo, Claudio Scordino, and Paolo Gai, "Challenges in Virtualizing Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems", Embedded World Conference 2018, Nuremberg, Germany, February 27-March 1, 2018.
  [PDF]


• Giorgiomaria Cicero, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo and Anup Patel, "Reconciling Security with Virtualization: A Dual-Hypervisor Design for ARM TrustZone", In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2018), Lyon, France, February 20-22, 2018.
  [PDF]


• Paolo Modica, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo and Anup Patel, "Supporting Temporal and Spatial Isolation in a Hypervisor for ARM Multicore Platforms", In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2018), Lyon, France, February 20-22, 2018.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Modeling and Analysis of Engine Control Tasks Under Dynamic Priority Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2018. Best Journal Paper Award
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Response-Time Analysis of Engine Control Applications under Fixed-Priority Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 67, Issue 5, May 2018.
  [PDF]


• Timo Feld, Alessandro Biondi, Rob Davis, Giorgio Buttazzo and Frank Slomka, "A Survey of Schedulability Analysis Techniques for Rate-Dependent Tasks", Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 138, April 2018.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale, Giorgio Buttazzo and Paolo Pazzaglia, "Selecting the Transition Speeds of Engine Control Tasks to Optimize the Performance", ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2018.
  [PDF]

2017

• Daniel Casini, Luca Abeni, Alessandro Biondi, Tommaso Cucinotta and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Constant Bandwidth Servers with Constrained Deadlines", In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2017), Grenoble, France, October 4-6, 2017.
  [PDF]


• Marco Pagani, Alessio Balsini, Alessandro Biondi, Mauro Marinoni and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Linux-based Support for Developing Real-Time Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms with Dynamic FPGA Reconfiguration", In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC 2017), Munich, Germany, September 5-8, 2017.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Timing-aware FPGA Partitioning for Real-Time Applications Under Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration", In Proceedings of the 11th NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2017), Pasadena, CA, USA, July 24-27, 2017.
  [PDF]


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Semi-Partitioned Scheduling of Dynamic Real-Time Workload: A Practical Approach Based On Analysis-driven Load Balancing", In Proceedings of the 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 17), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 27-30, 2017.
  [PDF] [Online material]


• Mauro Marinoni, Alessandro Biondi, Pasquale Buonocunto, Gianluca Franchino, Daniel Cesarini and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Real-Time Analysis and Design of a Dual Protocol Support for Bluetooth LE Devices", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume 13, Issue 1, February 2017.
  [PDF]

2016

• Alessandro Biondi, Björn B. Brandenburg and Alexander Wieder, "A Blocking Bound for Nested FIFO Spin Locks", In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 16), Porto, Portugal, November 29 - December 2, 2016.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Alessio Balsini, Marco Pagani, Enrico Rossi, Mauro Marinoni and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Framework for Supporting Real-Time Applications on Dynamic Reconfigurable FPGAs", In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 16), Porto, Portugal, November 29 - December 2, 2016.
  [PDF] [Artifact Evaluation]


• Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo and Marko Bertogna, "Partitioning and Interface Synthesis in Hierarchical Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems", In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2016), Brest, France, October 19-21, 2016. Best Student Paper Award
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi and Björn B. Brandenburg, "Lightweight Real-Time Synchronization under P-EDF on Symmetric and Asymmetric Multiprocessors", In Proceedings of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 16), Toulouse, France, July 5-8, 2016.
  [PDF] [PDF (extended version)] [Artifact Evaluation]


• Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo, and Marko Bertogna, "Schedulability Analysis of Hierarchical Real-Time Systems under Shared Resources", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 65, Issue 5, May 2016.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Performance-driven Design of Engine Control Tasks", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2016), Vienna, Austria, April 2016. Best Paper Nomination
  [PDF]


• Vincenzo Apuzzo, Alessandro Biondi and Giorgio Buttazzo, "OSEK-like Kernel Support for Engine Control Applications under EDF Scheduling", In Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2016), Vienna, Austria, April 2016.
  [PDF] [Slides]


• Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale, Youcheng Sun and Stefania Botta, "Moving From Single-Core to Multicore: Initial Findings on a Fuel Injection Case Study", SAE Technical Paper, April 2016.
  


• Pasquale Buonocunto, Alessandro Biondi, Marco Pagani, Mauro Marinoni and Giorgio Buttazzo, "ARTE: Arduino Real-Time Extension for Programming Multitasking Applications", In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2016), Pisa, Italy, April 4-8 2016.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Real-Time Analysis of Engine Control Applications with Speed Estimation", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE 2016), Dresden, Germany, March 14-18, 2016.
  [PDF]

2015

• Alessandro Biondi, Alessio Balsini and Mauro Marinoni, "Resource Reservation for Real-Time Self-Suspending Tasks: Theory and Practice", In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2015), Lille, France, November 4-6, 2015.
  [PDF]


• Andrea Parri, Alessandro Biondi and Mauro Marinoni, "Response Time Analysis for G-EDF and G-DM Scheduling of Sporadic DAG-Tasks with Arbitrary Deadline", In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2015), Lille, France, November 4-6, 2015.
  [PDF] [Slides]


• Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo and Marko Bertogna, "Supporting Component-based Development in Partitioned Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems", In Proceedings of the 27th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 15), Lund, Sweden, July 7-10, 2015. Outstanding Paper Award
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo and Stefano Simoncelli, "Feasibility Analysis of Engine Control Tasks under EDF Scheduling", In Proceedings of the 27th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 15), Lund, Sweden, July 7-10, 2015.
  [PDF]


• Mauro Marinoni, Gianluca Franchino, Daniel Cesarini, Alessandro Biondi, Pasquale Buonocunto and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Dual-Protocol Support for Bluetooth LE Devices", In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 15), Cambridge, UK July 22-24, 2015.
  [PDF]


• Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Response-Time Analysis for Real-Time Tasks in Engine Control Applications", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2015), Seattle, USA, April 2015. Best Paper Award
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• Alessandro Biondi and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Engine Control: Task Modeling and Analysis", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE 2015), Grenoble, France, March 2015.
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2014

• Alessandro Biondi, Alessandra Melani, Mauro Marinoni, Marco Di Natale and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Exact Interference of Adaptive Variable-Rate Tasks under Fixed-Priority Scheduling", Proceedings of the 26th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 14), Madrid, Spain, July 8-11, 2014.
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• Alessandro Biondi, Alessandra Melani, Marko Bertogna and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Optimal Design for Reservation Servers under Shared Resources", Proceedings of the 26th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 14), Madrid, Spain, July 8-11, 2014.
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• Alessandro Biondi, Alessandra Melani and Marko Bertogna, "Hard Constant Bandwidth Server: Comprehensive Formulation and Critical Scenarios", Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES 2014), Pisa, Italy, June 18-20, 2014. Best Paper Award
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• Niccolò Borgioli, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Federico Aromolo, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Real-Time Packet-based Intrusion Detection on Edge Devices", Proc. of the Workshop on Real-time and Intelligent Edge Computing (RAGE), San Antonio, TX, May 9th, 2023. Best Paper Award
  


• Marco Pacini, Federico Nesti, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "X-BaD: A Flexible Tool for Explanation-Based Bias Detection", 2021 IEEE CSR Workshop on Resilient Artificial Intelligence (RAI), July 28, 2021.
  


• Daniel Casini, Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Addressing Analysis and Partitioning issues for the WATERS 2019 Challenge", 10th International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS 2019), in conjunction with ECRTS'19, Stuttgart, Germany, July 9, 2019.
  


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Deep Neural Networks for Safety-Critical Applications: Vision and Open Problems", 9th International Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2018), in conjunction with ECRTS'18, Barcelona, Spain, July 3, 2018. Best Open Problem
  


• Daniel Bristot de Oliveira, Daniel Casini, Rômulo Silva de Oliveira, Tommaso Cucinotta, Alessandro Biondi, and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Nested Locks in the Lock Implementation: The Real-Time Read-Write Semaphores on Linux", 9th International Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2018), in conjunction with ECRTS'18, Barcelona, Spain, July 3, 2018.
  


• Alessandro Biondi, Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessio Balsini and Marco Di Natale, "Logical Execution Time Implementation and Memory Optimization Issues in AUTOSAR Applications", 8th International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS 2017), in conjunction with ECRTS'17, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 27, 2017.
  


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale, Giorgio Buttazzo and Matteo Secchiari, "Exploring the Interaction Between Functional Performance and Scheduling Abstractions", 8th International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS 2017), in conjunction with ECRTS'17, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 27, 2017.
  


• Daniel Casini, Alessandro Biondi and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Need for Reservation Servers with Constrained Deadlines", 8th International Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2017), in conjunction with ECRTS'17, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 27, 2017.
  


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale and Giorgio Buttazzo, "How Does Task Scheduling Affect Engine Control Performance?", 7th International Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2016), in conjunction with ECRTS'16, Toulouse, France, July 5, 2016. Best Open Problem
  


• Paolo Pazzaglia, Alessandro Biondi, Marco Di Natale and Giorgio Buttazzo, "A Simulation Framework to Analyze the Scheduling of AVR tasks with respect to Engine Performance", 7th International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS 2016), in conjunction with ECRTS'16, Toulouse, France, July 5, 2016.
  


• Marco Pagani, Mauro Marinoni, Alessandro Biondi, Alessio Balsini and Giorgio Buttazzo, "Towards Real-Time Operating Systems for Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Platforms", 12th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT16), in conjunction with ECRTS'16, Toulouse, France, July 5, 2016.
  


• Pasquale Buonocunto, Alessandro Biondi and Pietro Lorefice, "Real-Time Multitasking in Arduino", WiP session of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES 2014), Pisa, Italy, June 18-20, 2014.
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