Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Worst-Case Traversal Time

Abstract

Willkommen in Wien, and welcome to WCTT 2011, the First International Workshop on Worst-case Traversal Time. The aim of the WCTT workshop is to gather together scientists and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss methods for analysis of bounds on the traversal time in networked systems, multi-hop being a mandatory requirement. Traditionally, many tools and techniques have been available for computing worst-case bounds in multi-hop systems (e.g., Network Calculus, Real-Time Calculus, trajectory approach, event-based methods, formal methods, etc.), all exhibiting strong points. This provides a strong potential for cross-fertilization, which is what this workshop is aimed at. The WCTT workshop is held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium (RTSS). Real-time Systems are in fact becoming more and more networked systems, and the real-time research community is showing a growing interest in the topics dealt with in WCTT. We believe that this synergy is a winning one, as it gathers in the same place both the demand and the supply for solution methods to worst-case problems. In its first edition, WCTT has received nine submissions, which have gone through a blind review process. Each submission has received three reviews, and following a discussion, the TPC accepted eight papers.