Research

LSI Lab’s research addresses the problems of allocating and managing workload onto large-scale interconnected systems in such a way that the workload’s non-functional requirements are met. Typically, it focusses on application-specific computational workloads allocated over networked computing infrastructure, but some projects have also addressed workload management in manufacturing and transport systems. We are particularly interested in two types of non-functional workload requirements that are increasingly difficult to optimise as system complexity increases: real-time performance and energy dissipation. To address such problems, we must make contribution in distinct areas of research: application workload profiling; system modeling and simulation; estimation of real-time performance and energy dissipation; and resource allocation algorithms and heuristics.

Research interests

• Real-time systems and networks
• Embedded and cyber-physical systems
• Distributed systems
• On-chip interconnects
• Energy-efficiency
• Resource management

Research projects

• Enhancing real-time performance in digital communications using machine learning (ARDC, 2025-2029), principal investigator
• Identifying and Optimising Worst-Case Latency Bounds in On-Chip Network Interconnects (Arm Ltd., 2024-2028), principal investigator
• SAFIRE - Cloud-based Situational Analysis for Factories providing Real-Time Reconfiguration Services (EU H2020, 2016-2019), principal investigator
• MCCps - Mixed Criticality Embedded Systems on Many-Core Platforms (EPSRC, 2016-2019), co-investigator
• DreamCloud - Dynamic Resource Allocation in Embedded and High-Performance Computing (EU FP7, 2013-2016), principal investigator and technical leader
• MCC - Mixed Criticality Embedded Systems on Many-Core Platforms (EPSRC, 2013-2016), co-investigator
• LowPowNoC - Evaluation and reduction of power dissipation in multicore systems based on Networks-on-Chip (EPSRC, 2011-2013), principal investigator
• T-CREST - Time-predictable Multi-Core Architecture for Embedded Systems (EU FP7, 2011-2013), co-investigator
• TEMPO - Time Driven Modelling and Resource Management of Real-Time Systems on Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (EPSRC, 2009-2013), co-investigator
• MADES - Model-based Methods and Tools for Avionic and Defence Embedded Systems (EU FP7, 2010-2012), co-investigator
• Mapping heuristics for time-predictable multi-core platforms based on Networks-on-Chip (British Council, 2010-2011), principal investigator
• MPSoCMap - Application Modelling and Mapping onto Multiprocessor System-on-Chip Platforms (DFG German Research Foundation, 2009-2011), principal investigator

Advisory boards

• ADMORPH - Towards Adaptively Morphing Embedded Systems (EU H2020, 2019-2023)
• CREDES - Centre of Research Excellence in Dependable Embedded Systems (EU FP7, 2009-2011)

Current and past research partners

• Companies, NGOs and research centers
  • Arm - Cambridge, England
  • ARDC - USA
  • ONA - Durango, Spain
  • Electrolux - Porcia, Italy
  • OAS - Bremen, Germany
  • ATB - Bremen, Germany
  • BAE Systems
  • The Open Group
  • Bosch Corporate Research - Stuttgart, Germany
  • Airbus - Filton, UK
  • High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) - Stuttgart, Germany
  • Rheon Media - London, UK
  • SOFTEAM - Paris, France
  • TXT Group - Milan, Italy
  • EADS - Ulm, Germany
  • Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe - Langen & Munich, Germany
  • VITRONIC GmbH - Wiesbaden, Germany
  • Uninova - Caparica, Portugal
  • Hasso-Plattner-Institut - Potsdam, Germany
• Universities
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione - University of Pisa - Pisa, Italy
  • Institute of Computer and Network Engineering - Technische Universitaet Braunschweig - Braunschweig, Germany
  • Embedded Systems for Space Applications - UFSC University - Florianopolis, Brazil
  • LIRMM Laboratory - University of Montpellier 2 - Montpellier, France
  • CISTER Research Centre - Polytechnic Institute of Porto - Porto, Portugal
  • GAPH - PUCRS University - Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • CEI - Polytechnic University of Madrid - Madrid, Spain
  • Department of Computer Engineering - Tallinn University of Technology - Tallinn, Estonia
  • Institute of Informatics - UFRGS University - Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Integrated Digital Systems - University of Bremen - Bremen, Germany
  • Microelectronic Systems Institute - Technische Universitaet Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany
  • Department of Computer Systems - Tampere University of Technology - Tampere, Finland
  • KTH Information and Communication Technology - Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden
  • Department of Electronics and Information - Politecnico di Milano - Milan, Italy