Keynote at Time-Centric Reactive Software Workshop at ACM ESWeek 2025

Prof. Shih was invited to delvier a keynote at Time-Centric Reactive Software workshop at 2025 ACM ESWeek, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

The design and capabilities of the vehicles have undergone revolutionary transformations in this decade, from energy, power train, automation, to autonomy. It is difficult, if not impossible, to foresee when such a transformation will slow down or stop. Among these transformations, software-defined vehicles (SDVs) employ computation and communication to embody the intelligence in the vehicles and enable Level 4 and 5 automation. Timeliness requirements for vehicle perception and vehicle control impose unforeseen challenges to the communities. This talk will explore the real-time requirements of computation and communication for connected software-defined vehicles. The requirements include that among the zonals within a software-defined vehicle, and that among the connected vehicles. This talk will discuss the communication networks for modern vehicles and their limitations. We will also present the example workload for intra- and inter-vehicle messages on modern software-defined vehicles. The computation and communication workload in Autoware will be used as an example to elaborate. Collaborative perception serves as another example to integrate communication and computation in order to embody intelligence in the connected vehicle.