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  • A. Mifdaoui, M. Behnam, T. Nolte, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and R. Marau.
    Exploring alternatives to use master/slave full duplex switched Ethernet for avionics embedded applications.
    In 11th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN'2012) Proceedings, Pisa, Italy, July 2012. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    Demonstrating an Enhanced Ethernet Switch Supporting Video Sensing with Dynamic QoS.
    In 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'2012) Demos session, pages 293-294, Hangzhou, China, May 2012. [ bib | DOI ]

  • L. Marques, V. Vasconcelos, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    Tolerating transient communication faults with online traffic scheduling.
    In IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT'2012) Proceedings, pages 396-402, Athens, Greece, March 2012. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, P. Pedreiras, M. Behnam, T. Nolte, and L. Almeida.
    Demonstrating an Ethernet switch enhanced with hierarchical scheduling.
    In 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'2011) Open Demo Session of Real-Time Techniques and Technologies, Vienna, Austria, November 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, M. Behnam, T. Nolte, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    Multi-level hierarchical scheduling in Ethernet switches.
    In 11th International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT'2011) Proceedings, pages 185-194, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • L. Marques, V. Vasconcelos, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    Towards Efficient Transient Fault Handling in Time-Triggered Systems.
    In INFORUM - Simpósio de Informática, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • M. Behnam, R. Marau, and P. Pedreiras.
    Analysis and optimization of the MTU in real-time communications over Switched Ethernet.
    In 16th Conference on Emerging Technologies Factory Automation (ETFA'2011) Proceedings, pages 1-7, Toulouse, France, September 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, P. Pedreiras, M. Behnam, T. Nolte, and L. Almeida.
    Demonstrating an Ethernet Switch Enhanced with Hierarchical Scheduling.
    In 3rd Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (APRES'2011) Proceedings, Chicago, USA, April 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, P. Pedreiras, M. Behnam, T. Nolte, and L. Almeida.
    Hierarchical server-based traffic scheduling in ethernet switches.
    ACM SIGBED Review, 8(1):68-69, March 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Silvestre, L. Almeida, R. Marau, and P. Pedreiras.
    On-line QoS Management for Multimedia Real-Time Transmission in Industrial Networks.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58(3):1061-1071, March 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • L. Silva, A. Oliveira, P. Pedreiras, and R. Santos.
    Ligação de Alto Desempenho entre FPGAs para Switch Ethernet FTT.
    In VII Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis (REC'2011) Proceedings, Oporto, Portugal, February 2011. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, K. Lakshmanan, and R. Rajkumar.
    Utilization-based schedulability analysis for switched Ethernet aiming dynamic QoS management.
    In 15th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2010) Proceedings, pages 1-10, Bilbao, Spain, September 2010. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, L. Almeida, M. Sousa, and P. Pedreiras.
    A middleware to support dynamic reconfiguration of real-time networks.
    In 15th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2010) Proceedings, pages 1-10, Bilbao, Spain, September 2010. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, M. Behnam, T. Nolte, L. Almeida, and P. Pedreiras.
    Schedulability Analysis for Multi-level Hierarchical Server Composition in Ethernet Switches.
    In 9th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN'2010) Proceedings, Brussels, Belgium, July 2010. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, A. Vieira, P. Pedreiras, A. Oliveira, L. Almeida, R. Marau, and T. Nolte.
    Flexible, efficient and robust real-time communication with server-based Ethernet Switching.
    In 8th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS'2010) Proceedings, pages 131-140, Nancy, France, May 2010. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, A. Vieira, R. Marau, P. Pedreiras, A. Oliveira, L. Almeida, and T. Nolte.
    Improving the efficiency of Ethernet switches for real-time communication.
    In 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management (WARM'2010) Proceedings, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2010. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, A. Vieira, R. Marau, P. Pedreiras, A. Oliveira, and L. Almeida.
    Architectural Solutions for Server Scheduling Communication within Ethernet Switches.
    In 6th Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis (REC'2010) Proceedings, Aveiro, Portugal, February 2010. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, P. Pedreiras, F. Yekeh, T. Nolte, and L. Almeida.
    On hierarchical server-based communication with switched Ethernet.
    In 15th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2010) Proceedings, pages 1-4, 2010. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, A. Vieira, R. Marau, P. Pedreiras, A. Oliveira, L. Almeida, and T. Nolte.
    Implementing Server-Based Communication within Ethernet Switches.
    In 2nd Workshop on Compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTS'2009) Proceedings, Washington, USA, December 2009. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, R. Marau, A. Vieira, P. Pedreiras, A. Oliveira, and L. Almeida.
    A synthesizable ethernet switch with enhanced real-time features.
    In 35th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON'2009) Proceedings, pages 2817-2824, Oporto, Portugal, November 2009. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, R. Marau, A. Oliveira, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    FPGA-based Implementation of an Ethernet Switch for Real-Time Applications.
    In 5th Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis (REC'2009) Proceedings, Monte de Caparica, Portugal, February 2009. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, N. Figueiredo, R. Santos, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and T. Nolte.
    Server-based real-time communications on Switched Ethernet.
    In 1st Workshop on Compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTS'2008) Proceedings, pages 37-44, Barcelon, Spain, November 2008. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, and T. Nolte.
    Towards Server-based Switched Ethernet for Real-Time Communications.
    In 20th Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'2008) WiP Session Proceedings, pages 60-63, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Santos, R. Marau, A. Oliveira, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    Designing a costumized Ethernet switch for safe hard real-time communication.
    In 7th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS'2008) Proceedings, pages 169-177, Dresden, Germany, May 2008. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, V. Silva, J. Ferreira, L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, E. Martins, and J. A. Fonseca.
    Distributed Automotive Embedded Systems, chapter Assessment of FTT-CAN master replication mechanisms for safety-critical applications.
    SAE International, November 2007. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, M. Harbour, D. Sangorrin, and J.L. Medina.
    Integration of a flexible time triggered network in the FRESCOR resource contracting framework.
    In 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2007) Proceedings, pages 1481-1488, Patras, Greece, September 2007. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Silvestre, L. Almeida, R. Marau, and P. Pedreiras.
    Dynamic QoS management for multimedia real-time transmission in industrial environments.
    In 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2007) Proceedings, pages 1473-1480, Patras, Greece, September 2007. [ bib | DOI ]

  • A. Antunes, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and A. Mota.
    Dynamic Rate and Control Adaptation in Networked Control Systems.
    In 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN'2007) Proceedings, volume 2, pages 841-846, Vienna, Austria, July 2007. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    Asynchronous traffic signaling over master-slave switched ethernet protocols.
    In 6th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN'2007) Proceedings, Pisa, Italy, July 2007. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, M. Harbour, D. Sangorrin, and J.L. Medina.
    Integration of a flexible network in a resource contracting framework.
    In 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Applications Symposium (RTAS'2007) WiP Session Proceedings, Bellevue, USA, April 2007. [ bib | DOI ]

  • L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, J. Ferreira, J. Calha, J. A. Fonseca, R. Marau, R. Silva, and E. Martins.
    Handbook of Real-Time and Embedded Systems, chapter Online QoS Adaptation with the Flexible Time-Triggered (FTT) Communication Paradigm.
    Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2007. [ bib | DOI ]

  • A. Antunes, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and A. Mota.
    Dynamic Rate Adaptation in Distributed Computer Control Systems.
    In International Congress of the Italian National Association for Automation (ANIPLA'2006) Proceedings, Rome, Italy, November 2006. Best paper award; selected for journal publication. [ bib | DOI ]

  • L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, and R. Marau.
    Traffic scheduling anomalies in temporal partitions.
    From Model-driven Design To Resource Management For Distributed Embedded Systems, 225:95-104, October 2006. [ bib | DOI ]

  • F. Santos, J. Trovao, A. Marques, P. Pedreiras, J. Ferreira, L. Almeida, and M. Santos.
    A Modular Control Architecture for a Small Electric Vehicle.
    In 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2006) Proceedings, pages 139-144, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2006. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, L. Almeida, and P. Pedreiras.
    Enhanced Ethernet Switching for Flexible Hard Real-Time Communication.
    In 5th International Workshop on Real Time Networks (RTN'2006) Proceedings, Dresden, Germany, July 2006. [ bib | DOI ]

  • R. Marau, L. Almeida, and P. Pedreiras.
    Enhancing real-time communication over COTS ethernet switches.
    In 6th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS'2006) Proceedings, pages 295-302, Torino, Italy, June 2006. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Ferreira, L. Almeida, J. A. Fonseca, P. Pedreiras, E. Martins, G. Rodriguez-Navas, J. Rigo, and J. Proenza.
    Combining operational flexibility and dependability in FTT-CAN.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2(2):95-102, May 2006. [ bib | DOI ]

  • L. Almeida and P. Pedreiras.
    Hard Real-Time Communication over COTS Ethernet Switches.
    In 26th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'2005) Work in Progress Session Proceedings, Miami Florida, USA, December 2005. [ bib | DOI ]

  • A. Antunes, P. Pedreiras, and A. Mota.
    Adapting the sampling period of a real-time adaptive distributed controller to the bus load.
    In 10th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2005) Proceedings, volume 1, pages 1084-1088, Catania, Italy, September 2005. [ bib | DOI ]

  • V. Silva, R. Marau, L. Almeida, J. Ferreira, M. Calha, P. Pedreiras, and J. A. Fonseca.
    Implementing a distributed sensing and actuation system: The CAMBADA robots case study.
    In 10th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2005) Proceedings, volume 2, pages 781-788, Catania, Italy, September 2005. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras, P. Gai, L. Almeida, and G. Buttazzo.
    FTT-Ethernet: a flexible real-time communication protocol that supports dynamic QoS management on Ethernet-based systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 1(3):162-172, August 2005. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Ferreira, L. Almeida, J. A. Fonseca, P. Pedreiras, and M. Santos.
    On the dependability and flexibility of CAN and CAN based protocols.
    In VII Workshop de Tempo Real (WTR'2005) Proceedings, Fortaleza, Brazil, May 2005. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    Message routing in multi-segment FTT networks: the isochronous approach.
    In 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2004) Proceedings, volume 3, pages 122-138, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2004. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    Minimizing the end-to-end latency in multi-segment time-triggered networks.
    In 11th IFAC Symposium Proceedings on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 2004 (INCOM'2004), volume 1, Salvador, Brazil, April 2004. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Ferreira, L. Almeida, L. Martins, and P. Pedreiras.
    Components to enforce fail-silent behaviour in dynamic master-slave systems.
    5th IFAC International Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications (SICICA'2003), pages 143-150, July 2003. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras, R. Leite, and L. Almeida.
    Characterizing the Real-Time Behavior of Prioritized Switched-Ethernet.
    In 2nd International Workshop on Real-Time LANs in the Internet Age (RTLIA'2003) Proceedings, Oporto, Portugal, July 2003. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras.
    Supporting Flexible Real-Time Communication on Distributed Systems.
    PhD thesis, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2003. [ bib ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    The flexible time-triggered (FTT) paradigm: an approach to QoS management in distributed real-time systems.
    In 17th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS'2003), Nice, France, April 2003. [ bib | DOI ]

  • L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, and J. A. Fonseca.
    The FTT-CAN protocol: why and how.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 49(6):1189-1201, December 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. A. Fonseca, J. Ferreira, M. Calha, P. Pedreiras, and L. Almeida.
    Issues on task dispatching and master replication in FTT-CAN.
    In 6th IEEE African Electrical Technology Conference Proceedings (AFRICON'2002), volume 1, pages 221-226, George, South Africa, October 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    EDF message scheduling on controller area network.
    Computing and Control Engineering Journal, 13(4):163-170, August 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Ferreira, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and J. A. Fonseca.
    Achieving fault tolerance in FTT-CAN.
    In 4th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS'2002) Proceedings, pages 125-132, Västerås, Sweden, August 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and P. Gai.
    FTT-Ethernet: a platform to implement the Elastic Task Model over message streams.
    In 4th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS'2002) Proceedings, pages 225-232, Västerås, Sweden, August 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Ferreira, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and J. A. Fonseca.
    The FTT-CAN protocol for flexibility in safety-critical systems.
    IEEE Micro, 22(4):46-55, July/August 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and P. Gai.
    The FTT-ethernet protocol: merging flexibility, timeliness and efficiency.
    In 14th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'2002) Proceedings, pages 134-142, Vienna, Austria, June 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    Flexibility, timeliness and efficiency over Ethernet.
    In 1st International Workshop on Real-Time LANs in the Internet Age (RTLIA'2002) Proceedings, pages 53-56, Vienna, Austria, June 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    Flexible Scheduling on Controller Area Network.
    In 10th International Conference on Real-Time Systems (RTS'2002) Proceedings, Paris, France, March 2002. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    A practical approach to EDF scheduling on controller area network.
    In IEEE/IEE Real-Time Embedded Systems Workshop (RTES'2001) at the 22nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'2001) Proceedings, London, England, December 2001. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    Asynchronous communication on FTT-CAN: Experimental results.
    In 4th IFAC International Conference on Fieldbus Systems and their Applications (FeT'2001) Proceedings, pages 113-120, Nancy, France, November 2001. INRIA. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. Ferreira, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and J. A. Fonseca.
    FTT CAN Error Confinement.
    4th IFAC International Conference on Fieldbus Systems and their Applications (FeT'2001) Proceedings, pages 8-15, November 2001. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and J. A. Fonseca.
    Improving the responsiveness of the synchronous messaging system in FTT-CAN.
    In 16th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems (DCCS'2000) Proceedings, Sydney, Australia, December 2000. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, and J. A. Fonseca.
    A Proposal To Improve The Responsiveness Of The Synchronous Messaging System In FTT-CAN.
    Revista do Departamento de Electrónica e Telecomunicações, 3(2), October 2000. [ bib | DOI ]

  • P. Pedreiras and L. Almeida.
    Combining event-triggered and time-triggered traffic in FTT-CAN: analysis of the asynchronous messaging system.
    In 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS'2000) Proceedings, pages 67-75, Porto, Portugal, September 2000. [ bib | DOI ]

  • J. A. Fonseca, E. Martins, L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, and P. Neves.
    Flexible Time-Triggered Protocol for CAN: new scheduling and dispatching solutions.
    In 7th International CAN Conference (ICC'2000) Proceedings, New Orleans, USA, June 2000. [ bib | DOI ]