On real-time system research and education

It is argued that real-time system design can be made a more credible research subject and can attract more attention from academic researchers if it is possible to do significant experimentation with computing facilities commonly found in a university. This may be accomplished by: (1) compiling and publishing interesting problems found in real-world systems; (2) developing system design courses with nontrivial programming projects; (3) developing simulators of real-time system problems that are capable of exercising the experimental real-time systems; and (4) making common software components available for research and teaching