Nan Guan · City University of Hong Kong

About Me

I'm a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. I received my PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden. Before joining CityU, I worked in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Northeastern University, China. My research interests include real-time systems, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things. Apart from doing theoretical research, I'm also involved in some projects building cool systems, together with my industry partners.

Recruiting! Our research group has multiple openings of PhD Student, Research Assistant/Associate, Post-Doc Fellow and Software Engineer for the following exciting projects:

LLM-aided System Design
Autonomous Driving Systems
Real-Time Intelligence on Edge/Device
Real-Time Robotic Operating System (ROS)

Both theoretical and system guys are welcome! Do not hesitate to contact me if you have interests.

Research Interests

Real-Time Systems
Embedded Systems
Cyber-Physical Systems
Internet-of-Things

News

Outstanding Paper Award of RTSS 2025. Our paper "WCDFP Analysis for Real-Time Tasks with Stochastic Release Patterns using Chernoff Bound" received the Outstanding Paper Award of RTSS 2025 (IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium).
Best Paper Award of CODES+ISSS 2025. Our paper "Re-thinking Memory-Bound Limitations in CGRAs" received the Best Paper Award of CODES+ISSS 2025 (International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis).
Outstanding Paper Award of RTAS 2025. Our paper "Jointly Ensuring Timing Disparity and End-to-End Latency Constraints in Hybrid DAGs" received the Outstanding Paper Award of RTAS 2025 (IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium).
General Co-Chair of MEMOCODE 2025 (details). MEMOCODE's objective is to emphasize the importance of models and methodologies in correct system design and development. MEMOCODE'25 is a part of ESWEEK 2025, which will take place in Taipei, Taiwan during Sep 28 - Oct 3 2025.
General Co-Chair of SETTA 2024 (details). SETTA brings international researchers to exchange results and ideas with the Chinese computer science and software engineering community. SETTA 2024 was held in Hong Kong, Nov 26-28, 2024.
Best Paper Award of RTSS 2023. Our paper "SEAM: An Optimal Message Synchronizer in ROS with Well-Bounded Time Disparity" wins the Best Paper Award of RTSS 2023 (IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium), the flagship conference in real-time systems.
Local Arrangement Chair of CPS-IoT Week 2024 (details). CPS-IoT Week brings together five top conferences: HSCC, ICCPS, IoTDI, IPSN and RTAS. CPS-IoT Week 2024 was held in Hong Kong, May 13-16, 2024.
Design and Application Track Chair of RTSS 2023 (details). The 44th IEEE RTSS was held in Taipei from Dec. 5 to 8, 2023.
Program Co-Chair of RTCSA 2023 (details). The 29th IEEE RTCSA 2023 was held from Aug. 30 to Sep. 01, 2023, in TOKI MESSE, Niigata, Japan.
Outstanding Paper Award of RTSS 2022. Our paper "Bounding the Response Time of DAG Tasks Using Long Paths" wins the Outstanding Paper Award of RTSS 2022 (43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium).
Keynote Talk at MEMOCODE 2022 (details). I gave a keynote titled "Towards a Theoretical Foundation for Real-Time Robotic Operating System (ROS)" at MEMOCODE 2022.
Selection Committee Chair of SIGBED-SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award 2022 (details).
General Co-Chair of ISORC 2023 (details). The 26th IEEE ISORC was held from May 23 to 25 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
General Chair of RTAS 2022 (details). RTAS is a flagship conference in real-time and embedded computing systems.
Program Co-Chair of ISORC 2022 (details).
Selection Committee Chair of SIGBED-SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award 2021 (details).
Industry Chair of RTSS 2021 (details).
Best Paper Award of EMSOFT 2020. Our paper "Efficient Feasibility Analysis for Graph-based Real-Time Task Systems" wins the Best Paper Award of EMSOFT 2020 (International Conference on Embedded Software).
PC Chair of RTAS 2021.
Deputy Track Chair of RTSS 2020 Track 2.
2020 ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award.
Track Co-Chair of ICPADS 2020, Architecture Track.
Outstanding Paper Award of RTSS 2019. Our paper "Mixed-Criticality Multicore Scheduling of Real-Time Gang Task Systems" wins the Outstanding Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award of RTSS 2019.
Serving on the TCRTS Executive Committee. IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.
Best Paper Award of ISORC 2019. Our paper "Improving Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems with Bursty Inputs under Global EDF using Shapers" wins the Best Paper Award of ISORC 2019.
PC Chair of SETTA 2019. SETTA took place in Shanghai, China, Nov. 28-29, 2019.
Best Paper Award of e-Energy 2018. Our paper "Data Driven Chiller Sequencing for Reducing HVAC Electricity Consumption in Commercial Buildings" wins the Best Paper Award of e-Energy 2018.

Awards

ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award, 2020
EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2014
Best Paper Award, RTSS 2009
Best Paper Award, DATE 2013
Best Paper Award, ACM e-Energy 2018
Best Paper Award, ISORC 2019
Outstanding Paper Award, RTSS 2019
Best Paper Award, EMSOFT 2020
Outstanding Paper Award, RTSS 2022
Best Paper Award, RTSS 2023
Outstanding Paper Award, RTAS 2025
Best Paper Award, CODES+ISSS 2025
Outstanding Paper Award, RTSS 2025

Service

Track Chair of RTSS 2023
Program Co-Chair of RTCSA 2023
General Co-Chair of ISORC 2023
General Co-Chair of RTAS 2022
Selection Committee Chair of SIGBED-SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award 2022
Program Co-Chair of ISORC 2022
Selection Committee Chair of SIGBED-SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award 2021
Program Chair of RTAS 2021
Program Co-Chair of SETTA 2019
Program Co-Chair of EMSOFT 2015
Track Chair of RTAS 2018
Program Co-Chair of ICESS 2017
Topic Co-Chair of Euro-Par 2018
Local Chair of RTSS 2019
Local Chair of ISVLSI 2018
Publicity Co-Chair of RTNS 2022
Publicity Co-Chair of RTSS 2017
Publicity Co-Chair of EUC 2016
Executive Committee Member of IEEE TCRTS, since 2020 (TCRTS: Technical Committee of Real-Time Systems)
Steering Committee member of EMSOFT, since 2015

Publications

2026

Junyi Liu, Tianchi Ren, Fei Guan, Xu Jiang, Zhe Jiang, Wang Yi, Nan Guan. ProsaBuddy: Assisting Mechanized Real-Time Schedulability Analysis with LLM-based Agents. 47th IEEE Symposium on Real-Time Systems (RTSS), 2026.
Ziwei Song, Ruoxiang Li, Fei Guan, Jen-Ming Wu, Jason Xue, Nan Guan. RT-MoE: Real-Time Expert Management for Memory-Constrained MoE Decoding. 47th IEEE Symposium on Real-Time Systems (RTSS), 2026.
Haobo Jia, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Yichen Liu, Xingyu Liu, Xin Meng. Query-Centric Adaptive Scheduling of BEV Perception for Real-Time Autonomous Driving. 47th IEEE Symposium on Real-Time Systems (RTSS), 2026.
Xiantong Luo, Xu Jiang, Juan Fang, Nan Guan, Di Gao. Reintegrating ROS 2 into RTOS: A Native Deterministic Real-Time Execution Scheme. 47th IEEE Symposium on Real-Time Systems (RTSS), 2026.
Riwei Pan, Yu Liang, Sam H. Noh, Lei Li, Nan Guan, Tei-Wei Kuo, Chun Jason Xue. Regular: User Space Buffer Cache with the Bells and Whistles of a Kernel Page Cache. ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2026.
Bingkun Yao, Ning Wang, Yuchen Hu, Xiangfeng Liu, Yuxin Du, Hong Gao, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. ARSP: Automated Repair of Verilog Design via Semantic Partitioning. The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Codesign of Embedded Systems (CODES), 2026.
Haibo Hu, Lianming Huang, Qiao Li, Nan Guan, Li-Pin Chang, Jason Xue. RIDE: Runtime-Adaptive Inference Depth for Efficient VLA in Autonomous Driving. The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2026.
Xiangfeng Liu, Yuan Ling, Hui Wang, Yuchen Hu, Qingnan Wu, Bingkun Yao, Xiaomeng Han, Ning Wang, Qingxu Deng, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. SymNLO: Automated and High-Accuracy Hardware Synthesis for General Nonlinear Operators. International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), 2026.
Jie Zhou, Shiyue Zhang, Youshu Ji, Xinyao Jiao, Ning Wang, Wenjun Han, Xinwei Fang, Nan Guan, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang. Stay on the Right Track: A Reasoning-Aware Dual-Agent Framework for Automated RTL Debugging. IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2026.
Jie Zhou, Youshu Ji, Shiyue Zhang, Junhao Ye, Ning Wang, Wenjun Han, Xinwei Fang, Nan Guan, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang. Work Smarter, Not Harder: An LLM-Enabled Agentic Framework for Automated RTL Generation and Debugging. IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2026.
Ning Wang, Zichong Deng, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. CircuitDiff: Bridging Netlist Knowledge with RTL based on Graph Denoising Diffusion. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Ning Wang, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. Insights from Verification: Training a Verilog Generation LLM using Reinforcement Learning with Testbench Feedback. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Jia Xiong, Runkai Li, Haowen Fang, Cheng Ni, Ziran Zhu, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang. ParetoPilot: Global Optimization Reasoning on HLS Design Space Exploration with LLMs. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Jieran Cui, Zhengkai Wen, Haowen Fang, Yinan Zhu, Jia Xiong, Cheng Ni, Mingchi Zhang, Nan Guan, Xi Wang. ZK-Tracer: A High-Performance Heterogeneous Accelerator for Zero-Knowledge VM Trace Generation. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Lik Tung Fu, Jie Zhou, Shaokai Ren, Mengli Zhang, Jia Xiong, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang, Jun Yang. ChatSVA: Bridging SVA Generation for Hardware Verification via Task-Specific LLMs. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Lianming Huang, Haibo Hu, Qiao Li, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. On-Demand Multi-Task Sparsity for Efficient Large-Model Deployment on Edge Devices. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Jianmin Ye, Yifan Zhang, Tianyang Liu, Qi Tian, Shengchu Su, Lik Tung Fu, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang. ChipModeler: LLM-Aided Reference Model Design for Agile Hardware Verification. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Yuchen Hu, Jialin Sun, Yushu Du, Renshuang Jiang, Ning Wang, Weiwei Shan, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang. Beyond Fuzzer Islands: CPU Fuzzing via Smart Coordination. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Junhao Ye, Dingrong Pan, Hanyuan Liu, Yuchen Hu, Jie Zhou, Ke Xu, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang. UVMarvel: an Automated LLM-aided UVM Machine for Subsystem-level RTL Verification. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
Weilan Wang, Yu Mao, Dongdong Tang, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. ECM: Enhancing Compressibility of Quantized Vision Encoder and LLM for Large Vision-Language Models. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.
Jun Wang, Yu Mao, Yufei Cui, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. BAHOP: Similarity-based Basin Hopping for A fast hyper-parameter search in WSI classification. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.
Gwok-Waa Wan, Xinze Wang, Yubo Wang, Jia Xiong, Xinlai Wan, Qixiang Chen, Jingyi Zhang, Mingchi Zhang, Tao Ni, Mengnv Xing, Yusheng Hua, Ning Xu, Ying Wang, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang. GenBen: A Generative Benchmark for LLM-Aided Design. International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2026.
Lianming Huang, Haibo Hu, Qiao Li, X. He, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. GM-Skip: Metric-Guided Transformer Block Skipping for Efficient Vision-Language Models. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Findings (CVPR Findings), 2026.
Dongdong Tang, Weilan Wang, Yu Mao, Wenjing Xie, Nan Guan, Tei-Wei Kuo. Parallel-SA: Point Cloud Processing Acceleration via Parallel Set Abstraction. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2026.
Wenjing Xie, Tianchi Ren, Jen-Ming Wu, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. LaPOD: Latency Prediction for Real-Time LiDAR Object Detection. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2026.
Changwen Xing, SamZaak Wong, Xinlai Wan, Yanfeng Lu, Mengli Zhang, Zebin Ma, Lei Qi, Zhengxiong Li, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang, Jun Yang. ChipMind: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Long-Context Circuit Design Specifications. Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.
Gwok-Waa Wan, SamZaak Wong, Shengchu Su, Chenxu Niu, Ning Wang, Xinlai Wan, Qixiang Chen, Mengnv Xing, Jingyi Zhang, Jianmin Ye, Yubo Wang, Rongchang Song, Tao Ni, Qiang Xu, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang, Jun Yang. FIXME: Towards End-to-End Benchmarking of LLM-Aided Design Verification. Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.
Riwei Pan, Yu Liang, Sam H. Noh, Lei Li, Nan Guan, Tei-Wei Kuo, Chun Jason Xue. UnICom: A Universally High-Performant I/O Completion Mechanism for Modern Computer Systems. USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2026.
Tao Hu, Mingsong Lv, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. QoS-aware Rendering Task Migration. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2026.
Yuxin Du, Juxin Niu, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. Edge-AdaptiveKG: Resource-Efficient Knowledge Graph Construction for RAG on Edge Devices. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Application (RTCSA), 2026.
Haibo Hu, Lianming Huang, Xinyu Wang, Yufei Cui, Shangyu Wu, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. Nav-EE: Navigation-Guided Early Exiting for Efficient Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Application (RTCSA), 2026.
Wenxuan Wang, Jinjing Shi, Nan Guan, Shichao Zhang, Xuelong Li. QGHNN: A Quantum Graph Hamiltonian Neural Network. IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell., 2026.
Neiwen Ling, Wenrui Lu, Xuan Huang, Zhihe Zhao, Nan Guan, Zhenyu Yan, Guoliang Xing. Time-Sensitive Multi-DNN Inference on CPU-GPU Edge Platforms. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput., 2026.

2025

Shining Sun, Chaohai Yu, Xu Jiang, Qingxu Deng, Nan Guan. WCDFP Analysis for Real-Time Tasks with Stochastic Release Patterns using Chernoff Bound. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025. Outstanding Paper Award
Seongtae Lee, Nan Guan, Jinkyu Lee. Recursive Partitioned Scheduling for Real-Time Gang Tasks. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025.
Fei Guan, Xu Jiang, Weipeng Jing, Nan Guan. Reducing Worst-Case Deadline Failure Probability for EDF Scheduling. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025.
Xiantong Luo, Xu Jiang, Yichen Liu, Nan Guan, Tang Yue, Shaoshuai Zhang. On the Scalability and Efficiency of Intra-Process Communication in ROS 2. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025.
Shuai Zhao, Yiyang Gao, Zhiyang Lin, Boyang Li, Xinwei Fang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. Response Time Analysis for Probabilistic DAG Tasks in Multicore Real-Time Systems. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025.
Bingkun Yao, Ning Wang, Jie Zhou, Xi Wang, Hong Gao, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. Location is Key: Leveraging LLM for Functional Bug Localization in Verilog Design. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Yu Mao, Jingzong Li, Jun Wang, Hong Xu, Tei-Wei Kuo, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. Easz: An Agile Transformer-based Image Compression Framework for Resource-constrained IoTs. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Yuchen Hu, Junhao Ye, Ke Xu, Jialin Sun, Shiyue Zhang, Xinyao Jiao, Dingrong Pan, Jie Zhou, Ning Wang, Weiwei Shan, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang. UVLLM: An Automated Universal RTL Verification Framework using LLMs. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Jie Zhou, Youshu Ji, Ning Wang, Yuchen Hu, Xinyao Jiao, Bingkun Yao, Xinwei Fang, Nan Guan, Shuai Zhao, Zhe Jiang. Insights from Rights and Wrongs: A Large Language Model for Solving Assertion Failures in RTL Design. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Juxin Niu, Xiangfeng Liu, Dan Niu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. ReChisel: Effective Automatic Chisel Code Generation by LLM with Reflection. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Dongdong Tang, Yu Mao, Weilan Wang, Nan Guan, Tei-Wei Kuo, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. DAWN: Accelerating Point Cloud Object Detection via Object-Aware Partitioning and 3D Similarity-Based Filtering. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Bingkun Yao, Mun Choon Chan, Hong Gao, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. Age-of-Information Minimization for Data Aggregation in Energy-Harvesting IoTs. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Ning Wang, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. Large Language Model for Verilog Generation with Code-Structure-Guided Reinforcement Learning. IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2025.
Ning Wang, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan. VeriDebug: A Unified LLM for Verilog Debugging via Contrastive Embedding and Guided Correction. IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2025.
Yu Mao, Jun Wang, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. WISE: A Framework for Gigapixel Whole-Slide-Image Lossless Compression. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
Chen Tang, Tuo Shi, Qian Xu, Kui Wu, Nan Guan, Jen-Ming Wu, Jianping Wang. Designing and Implementing AoI-Optimized Scheduling for Autonomous Driving Systems. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2025.
Jinghao Sun, Xisheng Li, Mingyang Gong, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Mingsong Chen, Jun Zhao, Qingxu Deng. Jointly Ensuring Timing Disparity and End-to-End Latency Constraints in Hybrid DAGs. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2025. Outstanding Paper Award
Ziwei Song, Mingsong Lv, Tianchi Ren, Chun Jason Xue, Jen-Ming Wu, Nan Guan. Autoware.Flex: Human-Instructed Dynamically Reconfigurable Autonomous Driving Systems. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2025.
Ruoxiang Li, Ziwei Song, Mingsong Lv, Jen-Ming Wu, Chun Jason Xue, Jianping Wang, Nan Guan. ATER: Adaptive Task Execution Rate Regulation for Enhanced Real-Time Performance in ROS 2. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2025.
Yun Huang, Qiang Su, Shuhan Bai, Heng-Lin Yen, Nan Guan, Tei-Wei Kuo, Xue Liu, Chun Jason Xue. REMUS: Efficient Multi-Request Scheduling in Computational Storage Devices. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2025.
Hongchao Du, Shangyu Wu, Arina Kharlamova, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. FlexInfer: Breaking Memory Constraint via Flexible and Efficient Offloading for On-Device LLM Inference. Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys), 2025.
Hongchao Du, Qiao Li, Xianzhang Chen, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. FlexPB: Achieving Flexible and Efficient Persistent User Buffers for Mobile Systems. The 14th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA), 2025.
Tianyu Ren, Qiao Li, Yina Lv, Min Ye, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. LongliveSSD: Maximizing Lifetime Minimizing Tail-latency for Multi-Mode SSDs. The 14th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA), 2025.
Mingsong Lv, Weichen Liu, Nan Guan. Reliability Architectures for High-Performance Processors: A Survey and Outlook. International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS), 2025.
Wenjing Xie, Juxin Niu, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. Grade Like a Human: Rethinking Automated Assessment with Large Language Models. International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS), 2025.
Shangyu Wu, Hongchao Du, Ying Xiong, Shuai Chen, Tei-Wei Kuo, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. EvoP: Robust LLM Inference via Evolutionary Pruning. Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC), 2025.
Junhao Ye, Yuchen Hu, Ke Xu, Dingrong Pan, Qichun Chen, Jie Zhou, Shuai Zhao, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang. From Concept to Practice: an Automated LLM-aided UVM Machine for RTL Verification. International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2025.
Xiangfeng Liu, Zhe Jiang, Anzhen Zhu, Xiaomeng Han, Mingsong Lyu, Qingxu Deng, Nan Guan. Re-thinking Memory-Bound Limitations in CGRAs. The International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), 2025. Best Paper Award
Xianglong Li, Kaiwei Mo, Yeqiao Hou, Zongpeng Li, Hong Xu, Nan Guan. An Online Auction Approach to Computing Resource Allocation in Mobile AIGC Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025.
Wenjing Sun, Yuan Zou, Nan Guan, Xudong Zhang, Jiahui Liu, Morteza Hashemi Farzaneh. A Systematic Flexible-Window-Based Scheduling Framework for Time-Sensitive Networking. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025.
Xiantong Luo, Xu Jiang, Yue Tang, Haochun Liang, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. Analysis and optimization of communication delay in multi-subscriber environments of ROS 2. Journal of System Architectures, 2025.
Yan Wang, Mingsong Lv, Zhiying Wu, Yunjian Xu, Nan Guan, Rong Su. Risk-Constrained LQR Design Framework for Non-Gaussian Interconnected Systems Defined Over a Digraph. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025.
Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Shuai Zhao, Mingsong Lv. Multipath Bound for DAG Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2025.
Wei Zhang, Yunlong Yu, Xiao Jiang, Nan Guan, Naijun Zhan, Lei Ju. WCET Estimation for CNN Inference on FPGA SoC With Multi-DPU Engines. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025.
Yang Wang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. Blocking analysis of real-time tasks with parallel critical sections under federated scheduling. Journal of System Architectures, 2025.
Wenjing Xie, Tianchi Ren, Chun Jason Xue, Jen-Ming Wu, Nan Guan. LiDAR localization using position-encoded landmarks without point cloud maps. Journal of System Architectures, 2025.
Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Mingsong Lv. Multi-Path Bound for Parallel Tasks With Conditional Branches. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2025.
Haochun Liang, Xu Jiang, Junyi Liu, Xiantong Luo, Songran Liu, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. New Scheduling Algorithm and Analysis for Partitioned Periodic DAG Tasks on Multiprocessors. IEEE Transactions on Parallel Distributed Systems, 2025.

2024

Fei Guan, Jinkyu Lee, Chun Jason Xue, Jen-Ming Wu, Nan Guan. Mixed-Criticality Federated Scheduling for Relaxed-Deadline DAG Tasks. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2024.
Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Gang Chen, Xin Si, Nan Guan. ROTA-I/O: Hardware/Algorithm Co-design for Real-Time I/O Control with Improved Timing Accuracy and Robustness. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2024.
Xisheng Li, Ye Ma, Yuting Chen, Jinghao Sun, Wanli Chang, Nan Guan, Liming Chen, Qingxu Deng. Priority Optimization for Autonomous Driving Systems to Meet End-to-End Latency Constraints. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2024.
Yuheng Shen, Jianzhong Liu, Yiru Xu, Hao Sun, Mingzhe Wang, Nan Guan, Heyuan Shi, Yu Jiang. Enhancing ROS System Fuzzing through Callback Tracing. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2024.
Hao Sun, Yiru Xu, Jianzhong Liu, Yuheng Shen, Nan Guan, Yu Jiang. Finding Correctness Bugs in eBPF Verifier with Structured and Sanitized Program. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2024.
Hongming Huang, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan, Hong Xu. Is Low Similarity Threshold A Bad Idea in Delta Compression? ACM/USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2024.
Tao Hu, Menglong Cui, Mingsong Lyu, Tao Yang, Yiyang Zhou, Qingxu Deng, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. Ghostbuster: A Software Approach for Reducing Ghosting Effect on Electrophoretic Displays. International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2024.
Chenhao Wu, Ruoxiang Li, Naijun Zhan, Nan Guan. Modelling and Analysis of the LatestTime Message Synchronization Policy in ROS. International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2024.
Tianyu Ren, Qiao Li, Yina Lv, Min Ye, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. Near-Free Life-time Extension for 3D NAND Flash via Opportunistic Self-Healing. International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), 2024.
Wenjing Xie, Tao Hu, Neiwen Ling, Guoliang Xing, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. Timely Fusion of Surround Radar/Lidar for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Application (RTCSA), 2024.
Juxin Niu, Wei Zhang, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. RTiL: Real-Time Inference of Large Language Models on Memory-Constrained GPU Devices. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Application (RTCSA), 2024.
Chenhao Wu, Ruoxiang Li, Naijun Zhan, Nan Guan. Improving the Reaction Latency Analysis of Message Synchronization in ROS. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Application (RTCSA), 2024.
Hongming Huang, Hong Xu, Nan Guan. Tianshu: Towards Accurate Measuring, Modeling and Simulation of Deep Neural Networks. International Multidisciplinary Modeling and Simulation Multiconference (I3M), 2024.
Juxin Niu, Yunlong Yu, Wei Zhang, Nan Guan. Adaptive Checkpointing Method for Intermittent Computing Systems. International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), 2024.
Yao Chen, Xueli Fan, Qixin Wang, Nan Guan, Shuai Li, Zili Shao. Enabling Online Fault Prediction in Adaptive Control: A Model Checker and Controller Co-Designed CPS Solution. International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), 2024.
Weilan Wang, Yu Mao, Dongdong Tang, Hongchao Du, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue. When Compression Meets Model Compression: Memory-Efficient Double Compression for Large Language Models. International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (EMNLP), 2024.
Zikang Zhou, Haibo Hu, Xinhong Chen, Jianping Wang, Nan Guan, Kui Wu, Yung-Hui Li, Yu-Kai Huang, Chun Jason Xue. BehaviorGPT: Smart Agent Simulation for Autonomous Driving with Next-Patch Prediction. The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
Yue Tang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Xiantong Luo, Maolin Yang, Wang Yi. Timing analysis of processing chains with data refreshing in ROS 2. Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2024.
Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Mingsong Lv. On the degree of parallelism for parallel real-time tasks. Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2024.
Xisheng Li, Jinghao Sun, Jiarui Wang, Kailu Duan, Mingsong Chen, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Qingxu Deng, Yong Xie. Connecting the physical space and cyber space of autonomous systems more closely. Real-Time Systems (RTS), 2024.
Wenjing Sun, Yuan Zou, Nan Guan, Xudong Zhang, Jie Fan, Yihao Meng. IRFS: A CQF Scheduling Method Integrating Queue Resources and Flow Features in Time-Sensitive Networking. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2024.
Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv. Longer Is Shorter: Making Long Paths to Improve the Worst-Case Response Time of DAG Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits Systems (TCAD), 2024.
Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Xu Jiang, Wanli Chang. The Shape of a DAG: Bounding the Response Time Using Long Paths. Real-Time Systems (RTS), 2024.
Qingqiang He, Yongzheng Sun, Xu Jiang, Mingsong Lv, Jinkyu Lee, Nan Guan. Real-Time Scheduling for Parallel Tasks with Resource Reclamation. Real-Time Systems (RTS), 2024.
Songran Liu, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Zilong Wang, Minghe Yu, Wang Yi. RTeX: an Efficient and Timing-Predictable Multi-threaded Executor for ROS 2. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits Systems (TCAD), 2024.
Peng Chen, Hui Chen, Weichen Liu, Linbo Long, Wanli Chang, Nan Guan. DAG-Order: An Order-Based Dynamic DAG Scheduling for Real-Time Networks-on-Chip. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2024.
Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Nan Guan, Neil C. Audsley, Zheng Dong. Hopscotch: A Hardware-Software Co-Design for Efficient Cache Resizing on Multi-Core SoCs. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2024.

2023

Ruoxiang Li, Xu Jiang, Zheng Dong, Jen-Ming Wu, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. Worst-Case Latency Analysis of Message Synchronization in ROS. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023.
Yue Tang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Songran Liu, Xiantong Luo, Yi Wang. Optimizing End-to-End Latency of Sporadic Cause-Effect Chains Using Priority Inheritance. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023.
Xiantong Luo, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Haochun Liang, Songran Liu, Wang Yi. Modeling and Analysis of Inter-Process Communication Delay in ROS 2. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023.
Jinghao Sun, Tianyi Wang, Yang Li, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Qingxu Deng, Guozhen Tan. SEAM: An Optimal Message Synchronizer in ROS with Well-Bounded Time Disparity. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023. Best Paper Award
Zhishan Guo, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Abdullah Al Arafat, Nan Guan, Kecheng Yang. Stealing Static Slack via WCRT and Sporadic P-Servers in Deadline-Driven Scheduling. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023.
Zhihe Zhao, Neiwen Ling, Nan Guan, Guoliang Xing. Miriam: Exploiting Elastic Kernels for Real-time Multi-DNN Inference on Edge GPU. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2023.
Zhihe Zhao, Neiwen Ling, Kaiwei Liu, Nan Guan, Guoliang Xing. Poster Abstract: Unifying On-device Tensor Program Optimization through Large Foundation Model. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2023, Poster.
Yue Tang, Nan Guan, Xu Jiang, Zheng Dong, Wang Yi. Reaction Time Analysis of Event-Triggered Processing Chains with Data Refreshing. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023.
Zhe Jiang, Nathan Fisher, Nan Guan, Zheng Dong. BlueFace: Integrating an Accelerator into the Core's Pipeline through Algorithm-Interface Co-Design for Real-Time SoCs. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023.
Haochun Liang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Qingqiang He, Wang Yi. Response Time Analysis and Optimization of DAG Tasks Exploiting Mutually Exclusive Execution. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023.
Wenhong Ma, Xiangzhen Xiao, Guoqi Xie, Nan Guan, Yu Jiang, Wanli Chang. Fault Tolerance in Time-Sensitive Networking with Mixed-Critical Traffic. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023.
Ruoxiang Li, Tao Hu, Xu Jiang, Laiwen Li, Wenxuan Xing, Qingxu Deng, Nan Guan. ROSGM: A Real-Time GPU Management Framework with Plug-In Policies for ROS 2. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2023.
Jinghao Sun, Kailu Duan, Xisheng Li, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Qingxu Deng, Guozhen Tan. Real-Time Scheduling of Autonomous Driving System with Guaranteed Timing Correctness. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2023.
Yue Tang, Nan Guan, Xu Jiang, Xiantong Luo, Wang Yi. Real-Time Performance Analysis of Processing Systems on ROS2 Executors. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2023.
Ruoxiang Li, Zheng Dong, Jen-Ming Wu, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. Modeling and Property Analysis of the Message Synchronization Policy in ROS. IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST), 2023. Best Paper Runner-up
Wenjing Xie, Tao Hu, Neiwen Ling, Guoliang Xing, Shaoshan Liu, Nan Guan. Timely Fusion of Surround Radar/Lidar for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023.
Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Zonghua Gu. Parallelism in Real-Time Scheduling of DAG Tasks. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023.
Songran Liu, Mingsong Lv, Wei Zhang, Xu Jiang, Chuancai Gu, Tao Yang, Wang Yi, Nan Guan. Light Flash Write for Efficient Firmware Update on Energy-harvesting IoT Devices. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023. Best Paper Nomination
Xu Jiang, Xiantong Luo, Nan Guan, Zheng Dong, Shaoshan Liu, Wang Yi. Analysis and Optimization of Worst-Case Time Disparity in Cause-Effect Chains. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023.
Yun Huang, Nan Guan, Shuhan Bai, Tei-Wei Kuo, Jason Xue. SERICO: Scheduling Real-Time I/O Requests in Computational Storage Drives. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023.
Zhihe Zhao, Xian Shuai, Neiwen Ling, Nan Guan, Zhenyu Yan, Guoliang Xing. Moses: Efficient Exploitation of Cross-device Transferable Features for On-device Tensor Program Optimization. The 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2023.
Menglong Cui, Mingsong Lv, Chuancai Gu, Tao Yang, Qiulin Chen, Nan Guan. CrossChat: Instant Messaging across Different Apps on Mobile Devices. The 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), 2023.
Yan Wang, Rong Su, Mingsong Lv, Nan Guan. A multi-step estimation approach for optimal control strategies of interconnected systems with weakly connected topology. Automatica, 2023.
Xu Jiang, Haochun Liang, Nan Guan, Yue Tang, Lei Qiao, Wang Yi. Scheduling Parallel Real-Time Tasks on Virtual Processors. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2023.
Xu Jiang, Zewei Chen, Maolin Yang, Nan Guan, Yue Tang, Wang Yi. A Unified Blocking Analysis for Parallel Tasks With Spin Locks Under Global Fixed Priority Scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2023.
Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Maolin Yang, Yang Wang, Yue Tang, Wang Yi. Real-Time Scheduling of Parallel Task Graphs With Critical Sections Across Different Vertices. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2023.
Tang Yue, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Dong Ji, Xiantong Luo, Wang Yi. Comparing Communication Paradigms in Cause-Effect Chains. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2023.
Tianyu Zhang, Tao Gong, Mingsong Lyu, Nan Guan, Song Han, Xiaobo Sharon Hu. Reliable Dynamic Packet Scheduling with Slot Sharing for Real-Time Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2023.
Qingqiang He, Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Zhenyu Sun. Real-Time Scheduling of Conditional DAG Tasks with Intra-Task Priority Assignment. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.

2022

Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Xu Jiang, Wanli Chang. Bounding the Response Time of DAG Tasks Using Long Paths. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2022. Outstanding Paper Award
Ruoxiang Li, Nan Guan, Xu Jiang, Zhishan Guo, Zheng Dong, Mingsong Lv. Worst-Case Time Disparity Analysis of Message Synchronization in ROS. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2022.
Mingsong Lv, Xuemei Peng, Wenjing Xie, Nan Guan. Task Allocation for Real-time Earth Observation Service with LEO Satellites. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2022.
Xu Jiang, Dong Ji, Nan Guan, Ruoxiang Li, Yue Tang, Yi Wang. Real-Time Scheduling and Analysis of Processing Chains on Multi-threaded Executor in ROS 2. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2022.
Ran Bi, Qingqiang He, Jinghao Sun, Zhenyu Sun, Zhishan Guo, Nan Guan, Guozhen Tan. Response Time Analysis for Prioritized DAG Task with Mutually Exclusive Vertices. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2022.
Seongtae Lee, Nan Guan, Jinkyu Lee. Design and Timing Guarantee for Non-Preemptive Gang Scheduling. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2022.
Neiwen Ling, Xuan Huang, Zhihe Zhao, Nan Guan, Zhenyu Yan, Guoliang Xing. BlastNet: Exploiting Duo-Blocks for Cross-Processor Real-Time DNN Inference. The 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2022. Best Paper Nomination
Neiwen Ling, Yuze He, Nan Guan, Heming Fu, Guoliang Xing. Dataset: An Indoor Smart Traffic Dataset and Data Collection System. The 5th International SenSys/BuildSys Workshop on Data (DATA), 2022.
Zhihe Zhao, Neiwen Ling, Nan Guan, Guoliang Xing. Poster Abstract: Aaron: Compile-time Kernel Adaptation for Multi-DNN Inference Acceleration on Edge GPU. The 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2022. Best Poster Award
Yang Wang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Dong Ji, Wang Yi. Scheduling and Analysis of Real-Time Tasks with Parallel Critical Sections. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022.
Dongdong Tang, Xuan Sun, Nan Guan, Tei-Wei Kuo, Chun Jason Xue. Accelerating LPAQ compression algorithm on FPGA. International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), 2022.
Wei Zhang, Jiangshan Yu, Qingqiang He, Nan Zhang, Nan Guan. TICK: Tiny Client for Blockchains. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022.
Yufei Chen, Tingtao Li, Qinming Zhang, Wei Mao, Nan Guan, Mei Tian, Hao Yu, Cheng Zhuo. ANT-UNet: Accurate and Noise-Tolerant Segmentation for Pathology Image Processing. ACM Journal of Emerging Technology of Computing Systems, 2022.
Shuangshuang Chang, Jinghao Sun, Zhixiong Hao, Qingxu Deng, Nan Guan. Computing exact WCRT for typed DAG tasks on heterogeneous multi-core processors. Journal of System Architecture, 2022.
Jinghao Sun, Tao Jin, Yekai Xue, Liwei Zhang, Jinrong Liu, Nan Guan, Quan Zhou. ompTG: From OpenMP Programs to Task Graphs. Journal of System Architecture, 2022.
Yulong Wu, Weizhe Zhang, Nan Guan, Yue Tang. Improving Interference Analysis for Real-Time DAG Tasks Under Partitioned Scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022.
Peng Chen, Hui Chen, Jun Zhou, Mengquan Li, Weichen Liu, Chunhua Xiao, Yiyuan Xie, Nan Guan. Contention Minimization in Emerging SMART NoC via Direct and Indirect Routes. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022.
Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Pan Dong, Ran Wei, Dawei Yang, Neil C. Audsley, Nan Guan. Toward an Analysable, Scalable, Energy-Efficient I/O Virtualization for Mixed-Criticality Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.
Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Dawei Yang, Richard Paterson, Nan Guan, Yan Zhuang, Neil C. Audsley. Bridging the Pragmatic Gaps for Mixed-Criticality Systems in the Automotive Industry. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.

2021

Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Haochun Liang, Yue Tang, Lei Qiao, Wang Yi. Virtually-Federated Scheduling of Parallel Real-Time Tasks. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2021.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Yekai Xue, Jing He, Guozhen Tan. Calculating Worst-Case Response Time Bounds for OpenMP Programs with Loop Structures. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2021.
Menglong Cui, Mingsong Lv, Qingqiang He, Caiqi Zhang, Chuancai Gu, Tao Yang, Nan Guan. PRUID: Practical User Interface Distribution for Multi-surface Computing. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Rongxiao Shi, Guozhen Tan, Wang Yi. Schedulability Analysis for Timed Automata With Tasks. International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2021, published in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
Yue Tang, Nan Guan, Zhiwei Feng, Xu Jiang, Wang Yi. Response Time Analysis of Lazy Round Robin. Design Automation and Test In Europe (DATE), 2021.
Songran Liu, Wei Zhang, Mingsong Lv, Qiulin Chen, Nan Guan. Surviving Transient Power Failures with SRAM Data Retention. Design Automation and Test In Europe (DATE), 2021.
Wei Zhang, Songran Liu, Mingsong Lv, Qiulin Chen, Nan Guan. Intermittent Computing with Efficient State Backup by Asynchronous DMA. Design Automation and Test In Europe (DATE), 2021.
Qingqiang He, Mingsong Lv, Nan Guan. Response Time Bounds for DAG Tasks with Arbitrary Intra-Task Priority Assignment. Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2021.
Peng Chen, Hui Chen, Jun Zhou, Di Liu, Shiqing Li, Weichen Liu, Wanli Chang, Nan Guan. Partial order based non-preemptive communication scheduling towards real-time networks-on-chip. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2021.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Xi Zhang, Yaoyao Chi, Feng Li. Algorithms for Computing the WCRT bound of OpenMP Task Systems with Conditional Branches. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021.
Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, He Du, Wang Yi, Weichen Liu. On the Analysis of Parallel Real-Time Tasks with Spin Locks. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021.
Shuai Zhao, Wanli Chang, Ran Wei, Weichen Liu, Nan Guan, Alan Burns, Andy Wellings. Priority Assignment on Partitioned Multiprocessor Systems with Shared Resources. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021.
Peng Chen, Weichen Liu, Hui Chen, Shiqing Li, Mengquan Li, Lei Yang, Nan Guan. Reduced Worst-Case Communication Latency Using Single-Cycle Multi-Hop Traversal Network-on-Chip. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2021.
Wei Zhang, Jiangshan Yu, Qingqiang He, Nan Zhang, Nan Guan. TICK: Tiny Client for Blockchains. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
Zimu Zheng, Qiong Chen, Cheng Fan, Nan Guan, Arun Vishwanath, Dan Wang, Fangming Liu. An Edge Based Data-Driven Chiller Sequencing Framework for HVAC Electricity Consumption Reduction in Commercial Buildings. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2021.
Xi Jin, Changqing Xia, Nan Guan, Peng Zeng. Joint Algorithm of Message Fragmentation and No-Wait Scheduling for Time-Sensitive Networks. IEEE CAA J. Autom. Sinica, 2021.
Yuhan Lin, Xi Jin, Tianyu Zhang, Meiling Han, Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng. Queue assignment for fixed-priority real-time flows in time-sensitive networks: Hardness and algorithm. Journal of System Architecture, 2021.
Junjie Yang, Guangyi Xu, Gang Chen, Nan Guan, Kai Huang. Efficient runtime slack management for EDF-VD-based mixed-criticality scheduling. Journal of System Architecture, 2021.
Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, Kecheng Yang, Samsil Arefin, Abusayeed Saifullah, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo. Mixed-criticality real-time scheduling of gang task systems. Real Time Systems, 2021.
Yang Wang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Xue Liu, Wang Yi. Partitioning-Based Scheduling of OpenMP Task Systems With Tied Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel Distributed Systems, 2021.

2020

Yue Tang, Zhiwei Feng, Nan Guan, Xu Jiang, Mingsong Lv, Qingxu Deng, Wang Yi. Response Time Analysis and Priority Assignment of Processing Chains on ROS2 Executors. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2020.
Jinghao Sun, Rongxiao Shi, Kexuan Wang, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo. Efficient Feasibility Analysis for Graph-based Real-Time Task Systems. International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. Best Paper Award
Songran Liu, Wei Zhang, Mingsong Lv, Qiulin Chen, Nan Guan. LATICS: A Low-overhead Adaptive Task-based Intermittent Computing System. International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Dong Pan, Dawei Yang, Nan Guan, Neil Audsley, Ran Wei. Re-Thinking Mixed-Criticality Architecture for Automotive Industry. IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020.
Jinghao Sun, Feng Li, Nan Guan, Wentao Zhu, Minjie Xiang, Zhishan Guo, Wang Yi. On Computing Exact WCRT for DAG Task. 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020.
Maolin Yang, Zewei Chen, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Hang Lei. DPCP-p: A Distributed Locking Protocol for Parallel Real-Time Tasks. 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020.
Jinghao Sun, Yaoyao Chi, Tianfei Xu, Lei Cao, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo, Wang Yi. On the Volume Calculation for Conditional DAG Tasks: Hardness and Algorithms. Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2020.
Jiantong Jiang, Xue Liu, Juan Gómez-Luna, Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng, Wei Zhang, Onur Mutlu, Zeke Wang, Zhishan Guo. Boyi: A Systematic Framework for Automatically Deciding the Best Execution Model for OpenCL Applications on FPGAs. 28th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2020.
Peng Chen, Weichen Liu, Mengquan Li, Lei Yang, Nan Guan. Contention Minimized Bypassing in SMART NoC. 25th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2020.
Xu Jiang, Jinghao Sun, Yue Tang, Nan Guan. Utilization-Tensity Bound for Real-Time DAG Tasks under Global EDF Scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Feng Li, Huimin Gao, Chang Shi, Wang Yi. Real-time Scheduling and Analysis of OpenMP DAG Tasks Supporting Nested Parallelism. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020.
Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, Di Liu, Aamir Khan, Abusayeed Saifullah, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo. Energy-Efficient Parallel Real-Time Scheduling on Clustered Multi-Core. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2020.
Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Xiang Long, Han Wan. Decomposition-based Real-Time Scheduling of Parallel Tasks on Multi-core Platforms. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Shuangshuang Chang, Feng Li, Qingxu Deng, Wang Yi. Capacity Augmentation Function for Real-Time Parallel Tasks with Constrained Deadlines under GEDF Scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020.
Wei Zhang, Nan Guan, Lei Ju, Yue Tang, Weichen Liu, Zhiping Jia. Scope-Aware Useful Cache Block Calculation for Cache-Related Preemption Delay Analysis with Set-Associative Data Caches. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020.
Mengquan Li, Weichen Liu, Nan Guan, Yiyuan Xie, Yaoyao Ye. Hardware-Software Collaborative Thermal Sensing in Optical Network-on-Chip-based Manycore Systems. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2020.
Kankan Wang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Di Liu, Weichen Liu, Qingxu Deng. Real-Time Scheduling of DAG Tasks with Arbitrary Deadlines. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2020.
Ameer Hamza Khan, Zili Shao, Shuai Li, Qixin Wang, Nan Guan. Which is the Best PID Variant for Pneumatic Soft Robots? An Experimental Study. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2020.
Xi Jin, Changqing Xia, Nan Guan, Chi Xu, Dong Li, Yue Yin, Peng Zeng. Real-Time Scheduling of Massive Data in Time Sensitive Networks With a Limited Number of Schedule Entries. IEEE Access, 2020.
Gang Chen, Nan Guan, Kai Huang, Wang Yi. Fault-tolerant real-time tasks scheduling with dynamic fault handling. Journal of Systems Architecture - Embedded Systems Design, 2020.
Zhiwei Feng, Nan Guan, Wenchen Liu, Qingxu Deng, Xue Liu, Wang Yi. Efficient drone hijacking detection using two-step GA-XGBoost. Journal of Systems Architecture - Embedded Systems Design, 2020.
Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Yue Tang, Xiang Long. Real-time Scheduling of Parallel Tasks with Tight Deadlines. Journal of Systems Architecture - Embedded Systems Design, 2020.

2019

Ashik Ahmed Bhuiyan, Kecheng Yang, Samsil Arefin, Abusayeed Saifullah, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo. Mixed-Criticality Multicore Scheduling of Real-Time Gang Task Systems. 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2019. Outstanding Paper Award & Best Student Paper Award
Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Yue Tang, Weichen Liu, Hancong Duan. Suspension-Based Locking Protocols for Parallel Real-Time Tasks. 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2019.
Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, Pan Dong, Nan Guan, Xiaotian Dai, Lifeng Wei. MCS-IOV: Real-time I/O Virtualization System for Mixed-Criticality Systems. 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2019.
Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Weichen Liu, Maolin Yang. Scheduling and Analysis of Parallel Real-Time Tasks with Semaphores. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2019.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Xiaoqing Wang, Chenhan Jin, Yaoyao Chi. Real-Time Scheduling and Analysis of Synchronous OpenMP Task Systems with Tied Tasks. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2019.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Jingchang Sun, Yaoyao Chi. Calculating Response-Time Bounds for OpenMP Task Systems with Conditional Branches. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2019.
Zhishan Guo, Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, Aamir Khan, Di Liu, Nan Guan, Abusayeed Saifullah. Energy-Efficient Real-Time Scheduling of DAGs on Clustered Multi-Core Platforms. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2019.
Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Di Liu, Weichen Liu. Analyzing GEDF Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Tasks with Arbitrary Deadlines. Design Automation and Test In Europe (DATE), 2019.
Weichen Liu, Mengquan Li, Wanli Chang, Chunhua Xiao, Yiyuan Xie, Nan Guan. Thermal Sensing Using Micro-ring Resonators in Optical Network-on-Chip. Design Automation and Test In Europe (DATE), 2019.
Mengquan Li, Weichen Liu, Lei Yang, Peng Chen, Duo Liu, Nan Guan. Routing in optical network-on-chip: minimizing contention with guaranteed thermal reliability. 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2019. Best Paper Award Nomination
Yi Zhang, Zhanwei Ling, Ran Cui, Mingsong Lv, Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng. Detecting and Predicting Performance Degradation Caused by Impaired Cache Isolation. The 25th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2019.
Yue Tang, Yuming Jiang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan. Pay-Burst-Only-Once in Real-Time Calculus. IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2019.
Yue Tang, Yuming Jiang, Nan Guan. Improving the Analysis of GPC in Real-Time Calculus. Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA), 2019.
Tao Yang, Qingxu Deng, Yue Tang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan. Semi-Federated Scheduling of Mixed-Criticality Systems for Sporadic DAG Tasks. IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2019.
Yue Tang, Yuming Jiang, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan. Improving Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems with Bursty Inputs under Global EDF using Shapers. IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2019. Best Paper Award
Lei Yang, Weichen Liu, Nan Guan, Nikil Dutt. Optimal Application Mapping and Scheduling for Network-on-Chips with Computation in STT-RAM based Router. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2019.
Qingqiang He, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Zhishan Guo. Intra-Task Priority Assignment in Real-Time Scheduling of DAG Tasks on Multi-cores. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2019.
Meiling Han, Nan Guan, Jinghao Sun, Qingqiang He, Qingxu Deng, Weichen Liu. Response Time Bounds for Typed DAG Parallel Tasks on Heterogeneous Multi-Cores. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2019.
Zhiwei Feng, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Weichen Liu, Qingxu Deng, Xue Liu, Wang Yi. An Efficient UAV Hijacking Detection Method using Onboard Inertial Measurement Unit. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2019.
Songran Liu, Nan Guan, Weichen Liu, Dong Ji, Xue Liu, Wang Yi. Leaking Your Engine Speed By Spectrum Analysis of Real-Time Scheduling Sequences. Journal of System Architectures, 2019.
He Du, Wei Zhang, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. Scope-aware Data Cache Analysis for OpenMP Programs on Multi-core Processors. Journal of System Architectures, 2019.
Nenggan Zheng, Qian Ma, Mengjie Jin, Shaomin Zhang, Nan Guan, Qiang Yang, Jianhua Dai. Abdominal-Waving Control of Tethered Bumblebees Based on Sarsa With Transformed Reward. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2019.

2018

Gang Chen, Nan Guan, Di Liu, Qingqiang He, Kai Huang, Todor Stefanov, Wang Yi. Utilization-Based Scheduling of Flexible Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2018.
Di Liu, Nan Guan, Jelena Spasic, Gang Chen, Songran Liu, Todor Stefanov, Wang Yi. Scheduling Analysis of Imprecise Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2018.
Weichen Liu, Lei Yang, Weiwen Jiang, Liang Feng, Nan Guan, Wei Zhang, Nikil D. Dutt. Thermal-aware Task Mapping on Dynamically Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip based Multi-processor System-on-Chip. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2018.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Xu Jiang, Shuangshuang Chang, Zhishan Guo, Qingxu Deng, Wang Yi. A Capacity Augmentation Bound for Real-Time Constrained-Deadline Parallel Tasks under GEDF. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, as proceedings of ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2018.
Gang Chen, Nan Guan, Biao Hu, Wang Yi. EDF-VD Scheduling of Flexible Mixed-Criticality System with Multiple-Shot Transitions. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, as proceedings of ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2018.
Wei Zhang, Nan Guan, Lei Ju, Weichen Liu. Analyzing Data Cache Related Preemption Delay with Multiple Preemptions. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, as proceedings of International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), 2018.
Xi Jin, Nan Guan, Changqing Xia, Jintao Wang, Peng Zeng. Abdominal-Waving Control of Tethered Bumblebees Based on Sarsa With Transformed Reward. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2018.
Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, Zhishan Guo, Abusayeed Saifullah, Nan Guan, Haoyi Xiong. Energy-Efficient Multi-Core Scheduling for Real-Time DAG Tasks. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2018.
Zimu Zheng, Qiong Chen, Cheng Fan, Nan Guan, Arun Vishwanath, Dan Wang, Fangming Liu. Data Driven Chiller Sequencing for Reducing HVAC Electricity Consumption in Commercial Buildings. The 9th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), 2018. Best Paper Award
Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Wang Yi. On the Consensus Mechanisms of Blockchain/DLT for Internet of Things. The 13th International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), 2018.

2017

Xu Jiang, Nan Guan, Xiang Long, Wang Yi. Semi-Federated Scheduling of Parallel Real-Time Tasks on Multiprocessors. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2017.
Yue Tang, Nan Guan, Weichen Liu, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Wang Yi. Revisiting GPC and AND Connector in Real-Time Calculus. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2017.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Yang Wang, Qingqiang He, Wang Yi. Scheduling and Analysis of Real-Time OpenMP Task Systems with Tied Tasks. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2017.
Yang Wang, Nan Guan, Jinghao Sun, Mingsong Lv, Qingqiang He, Tianzhang He, Wang Yi. Benchmarking OpenMP Programs for Real-Time Scheduling. The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2017.
Shaheer Muhammad, Nan Guan, Zili Shao, Shuai Li, Qixin Wang. Efficient and Balanced Charging of Reconfigurable Battery with Variable Power Supply. The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2017.
Zhishan Guo, Ashikahmed Bhuiyan, Abusayeed Saifullah, Nan Guan, Haoyi Xiong. Energy-Efficient Multi-Core Scheduling for Real-Time DAG Tasks. The 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2017.
Jakaria Abdullah, Gaoyang Dai, Nan Guan, Morteza Mohaqeqi, Wang Yi. Towards a Tool: TIMES-Pro for Modeling, Analysis, Simulation and Implementation of Cyber-Physical Systems. Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools, 2017.
Lei Yang, Weichen Liu, Peng Chen, Nan Guan, Mengquan Li. Task Mapping on SMART NoC: Contention Matters, Not the Distance. The 54th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2017.
Kai Lampka, Wang Yi, Steffen Bondorf, Jens Schmitt, Nan Guan. Generalized Finitary Real-Time Calculus. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017.
Wei Zhang, Fan Gong, Lei Ju, Nan Guan, Zhiping Jia. Scope-aware Useful Cache Block Analysis for Data Cache Related Preemption Delay. The 23rd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2017.
Zhiwei Feng, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Weichen Liu, Qingxu Deng, Xue Liu, Wang Yi. Efficient Drone Hijacking Detection using Onboard Motion Sensors. Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2017.
Lei Yang, Weichen Liu, Nan Guan, Mengquan Li, Peng Chen, Edwin H. M. Sha. Dark Silicon-Aware Hardware-Software Collaborated Design for Heterogeneous Many-Core Systems. The 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2017.
Weichen Liu, Peng Wang, Mengquan Li, Yiyuan Xie, Nan Guan. Quantitative Modeling of Thermal-Optical Effects in Optical Networks-on-Chip. The 27th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2017.
Shaheer Muhammad, Muhammad Usman Rafique, Shuai Li, Zili Shao, Qixin Wang, Nan Guan. A Robust Algorithm for State-of-Charge Estimation With Gain Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2017.

2016

Mingsong Lv, Nan Guan, Jan Reineke, Reinhard Wilhelm, Wang Yi. A Survey on Static Cache Analysis for Real-Time Systems. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, 2016.
Tianyu Zhang, Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng, Wang Yi. Start time configuration for strictly periodic real-time task systems. Journal of Systems Architecture - Embedded Systems Design, 2016.
Jinghao Sun, Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng, Peng Zeng, Wang Yi. Feasibility of Fork-Join Digraph Real-Time Task Model: Hardness and Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2016.
Xu Jiang, Xiang Long, Nan Guan, Han Wan. On the Decomposition-based Global EDF Scheduling of Parallel Real-Time Tasks. The 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2016.
Di Liu, Jelena Spasic, Nan Guan, Gang Chen, Songran Liu, Todor Stefanov, Wang Yi. EDF-VD Scheduling of Mixed-Criticality Systems with Degraded Quality Guarantees. The 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2016.
Mingsong Lv, Nan Guan, Ye Ma, Dong Ji, Erwin Knippel, Xue Liu, Wang Yi. Speed Planning for Solar-Powered Electric Vehicles. The Seventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), 2016.
Morteza Mohaqeqi, Syed Md Jakaria Abdullah, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. Schedulability Analysis of synchronous Digraph Real-Time Tasks. The 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2016.
Chuancai Gu, Nan Guan, Zhiwei Feng, Qingxu Deng, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Wang Yi. Transforming Real-Time Task Graphs to Improve Schedulability. The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2016. Best Paper Nomination

2015 and before

Nan Guan, Mengying Zhao, Jason Xue, Yongpan Liu, Wang Yi. Modular Performance of Energy Harvesting Real-Time Networked Systems. The 36th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2015.
Aiping Tan, Qixin Wang, Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng, Sharon Hu. Inter-Cell Channel Time-Slot Scheduling for Multichannel Multiradio Cellular Fieldbuses. The 36th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2015.
Nan Guan, Yue Tang, Jakaria Abdullah, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi. Scalable Timing Analysis with Refinement. The 21st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), 2015.
Nan Guan, Yue Tang, Yang Wang, Wang Yi. Delay Analysis of Structural Real-Time Workload. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2015.
Hao Lin, Nan Guan, Wenyao Xu, Yangjie Wei, Wang Yi. Noninvasive and Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring using Wearable Body Sensor Networks. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2015.
Yin Bi, Mingsong Lv, Wenyao Xu, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. AutoDietary: A Wearable Acoustic Sensor System for Food Intake Recognition in Daily Life. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015.
Pontus Ekberg, Nan Guan, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi. An Optimal Resource Sharing Protocol for Generalized Multiframe Tasks. Journal of Logical and Algebraic Method of Programming, 2015.
Nan Guan, Chuancai Gu, Martin Stigge, Qingxu Deng, Wang Yi. Approximate Response Time Analysis of Real-Time Task Graphs. The 35th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2014.
Martin Stigge, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. Refinement-based Exact Response-Time Analysis. Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2014.
Nan Guan, Wang Yi. General and Efficient Response Time Analysis for EDF Scheduling. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2014.
Chuancai Gu, Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng, Wang Yi. Partitioned Scheduling of Sporadic Mixed-Criticality Systems on Multiprocessor Platforms. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2014.
Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Wang Yi, Ge Yu. WCET Analysis with MRU Cache: Challenging LRU for Predictability. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2014.
Heiko Falk, Alain Girault, Daniel Grund, Nan Guan, Bengt Jonsson, Peter Marwedel, Jan Reineke, Christine Rochange, Reinhard Von Hanxleden, Reinhard Wilhelm, Wang Yi. Building Timing Predictable Embedded Systems. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2014.
Nan Guan, Wang Yi. Finitary Real-Time Calculus: Efficient Performance Analysis of Distributed Embedded Systems. The 34th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2013.
Nan Guan, Xinping Yang, Mingsong Lv, Wang Yi. FIFO Cache Analysis for WCET Estimation: A Quantitative Approach. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2013. Best Paper Award
Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Wang Yi, Ge Yu. WCET Analysis with MRU Cache: Challenging LRU for Predictability. The 18th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2012.
Nan Guan, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi, Ge Yu. Parametric Utilization Bounds for Fixed-Priority Multiprocessor Scheduling. The 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2012.
Nan Guan, Pontus Ekberg, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi. Effective and Efficient Scheduling for Certifiable Mixed Criticality Sporadic Task Systems. The 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2011.
Martin Stigge, Pontus Ekberg, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. The Digraph Real-Time Task Model. The 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2011. Best Paper Nomination
Nan Guan, Pontus Ekberg, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi. Resource Sharing Protocols for Real-Time Task Graph Systems. The 23rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2011.
Nan Guan, Wang Yi, Qingxu Deng, Zonghua Gu, Ge Yu. Schedulability Analysis for Non-preemptive Fixed-Priority Multiprocessor Scheduling. Journal of Systems Architecture, 2011.
Martin Stigge, Pontus Ekberg, Nan Guan, Wang Yi. On the Tractability of Digraph-Based Task Model. The 23rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2011.
Mingsong Lv, Wang Yi, Nan Guan, Ge Yu. Combining Abstract Interpretation with Model Checking for Timing Analysis of Multicore Software. The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2010. Best Paper Nomination
Nan Guan, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi, Ge Yu. Fixed Priority Multiprocessor Scheduling with Liu and Layland's Utilization Bound. The 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2010. Best Paper Nomination
Nan Guan, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi, Ge Yu. New Response Time Bounds of Fixed Priority Multiprocessor Scheduling. The 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2009. Best Paper Award
Nan Guan, Martin Stigge, Wang Yi, Ge Yu. Cache-Aware Scheduling and Analysis for Multicores. The 7th International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2009.
Nan Guan, Wang Yi, Zonghua Gu, Qingxu Deng, Ge Yu. New Schedulability Test Conditions for Non-Preemptive Scheduling on Multiprocessor Platforms. The 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2008.
Nan Guan, Qingxu Deng, Zonghua Gu, Wenyao Xu, Ge Yu. Schedulability Analysis of Preemptive and Non-preemptive EDF on Partially Runtime Reconfigurable FPGAs. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2008.
Zonghua Gu, Mingxuan Yuan, Nan Guan, Mingsong Lv, Qingxu Deng, Ge Yu. Static Scheduling and Software Synthesis of Dataflow Models with Symbolic Model-Checking. The 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2007.

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