Ramon Serna Oliver (Dr.-Ing)

About

Name: Ramon
Family name(s): Serna Oliver
Email: ramonsernaoliver@gmail.com

Short BIO

Ramon Serna Oliver is Principal Scientist at TTTech Auto (Vienna, Austria). Throughout his career, Ramon has been a pivotal contributor on interdisciplinary teams to the design and implementation of core components and tooling for safety‑critical products. He drives research on innovative scheduling algorithms that address the complex configuration challenges of heterogeneous real‑time systems, with a particular focus on Deterministic Ethernet and Time‑Triggered architectures for the automotive domain.

He earned a Dr‑Ing (Ph.D.) in 2010 from the Chair of Real‑Time Systems at TU Kaiserslautern, after completing a Computer‑Engineering diploma (2005) at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Earlier appointments include research‑assistant work at the Mälardalen Real‑Time Research Center (MRTC), Mälardalen University (Västerås, Sweden) and an invited researcher position at the Institute of Computing, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil).

Ramon’s research spans adaptive, resource‑constrained real‑time safety‑critical systems, deterministic wired and wireless communications, and the nuanced trade‑offs inherent in quality‑of‑service provisioning. He has chaired the International Workshop on Real‑Time Networks (RTN), guiding the event to unite emerging and senior researchers and to bridge the gap between academic breakthroughs and industry practice.

Besides occasional participation in Ph.D. committees, he contributes regularly as reviewer of journal and conferences and serves in PC committees of leading venues. His work consistently aims to translate cutting‑edge research into tangible, high‑assurance solutions for today’s most demanding real‑time applications.

Publications

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Journal Articles

W. Steiner, S.S. Craciunas, and R. Serna Oliver - Traffic Planning for Time-Sensitive Communication, In IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 3, pp. 42-47, IEEE, 2018. [Link]
S.S. Craciunas, R. Serna Oliver - Combined Task- and Network-level Scheduling for Distributed Time-triggered Networked Systems. Real-Time Systems, Volume 52, Issue 2, pp. 161-200, Springer, 2016. [PDF]

Conference Publications

A. Finzi, R. Serna Oliver - General Framework for Routing, Scheduling and Formal Timing Analysis in Deterministic Time-Aware Networks. In Proc. 34th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2022), LIPIcs, 2022. [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver, S.S. Craciunas, and W. Steiner - IEEE 802.1Qbv Gate Control List Synthesis using Array Theory Encoding. In Proc. 24th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), pp. 13-24, IEEE, 2018. [PDF]
S.S. Craciunas, R. Serna Oliver, M. Chmelik, and W. Steiner - Scheduling Real-Time Communication in IEEE 802.1Qbv Time Sensitive Networks. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), pp. 183-192, ACM, 2016. [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver and S.S. Craciunas - Hierarchical Scheduling over Off- and On-chip Deterministic Networks. ACM SIGBED Review, Volume 13, Number 4, Special Issue on 14th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN), ACM, 2016. [PDF]
(Best paper award) S.S. Craciunas and R. Serna Oliver - SMT-based Task- and Network-level Static Schedule Generation for Time-triggered Networked Systems. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2014), ACM, 2014. [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver, S.S. Craciunas, and G. Stöger - Analysis of Deterministic Ethernet Scheduling for the Industrial Internet of Things. In Proceedings of 19th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), IEEE, 2014. [PDF]
S.S. Craciunas, R. Serna Oliver, V. Ecker - Optimal Static Scheduling of Real-time Tasks on Distributed Time-triggered Networked Systems. In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2014), IEEE, 2014. [PDF]
Marcel Steine, Cuong Viet Ngo, Ramon Serna Oliver, Marc Geilen, Twan Basten, Gerhard Fohler, Jean-Dominique Decotignie - Proactive Reconfiguration of Wireless Sensor Networks, 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Miami, FL, USA, October 2011.
R. Serna Oliver, G. Fohler - Timeliness in Wireless Sensor Networks: Common Misconceptions. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN2010), Brussels, Belgium, July 2010. [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver, I. Shcherbakov, G. Fohler - An Operating System Abstraction Layer for Portable Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of The 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010), Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010. [PDF]
J. Rousselot, J.-D. Decotignie, M. Aoun, P. van der Stok, R. Serna Oliver, G. Fohler - Accurate Timeliness Simulations for Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the European Modelling Symposium 2009, Athens, Greece, November 2009. [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver, G. Fohler - Probabilistic estimation of end-to-end path latency in wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS09), Macau SAR, P.R.C, October 2009. [PDF]
A. Schoofs, M. Aoun, P. van der Stok, J. Catalano, R. Serna Oliver, G. Fohler - A Framework for Time-Controlled and Portable WSN Applications. In Proceedings of the 1st International ICST Conference on Sensor Networks Applications, Experimentation and Logistics (SENSAPPEAL 2009), Athens, Greece, September 2009. [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver, G. Fohler - A proposal for a notion of timeliness in wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN09), Dublin, Ireland, June 2009. [PDF]

Demos and Work-in-Progress

S.S. Craciunas, R. Serna Oliver, and W. Steiner - Demo Abstract: Slate XNS – An Online Management Tool for Deterministic TSN Networks. In Proc. 24th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Demo Session, (RTAS Demo), pp. 103-104, IEEE, 2018 [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver, I. Shcherbakov, G. Fohler - Poster abstract - An Efficient Operating System Abstraction Layer for Portable Applications in the Domain of Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of The 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '09), Berkeley, California, USA, November 2009. [PDF]
R. Serna Oliver, G. Fohler - Probabilistic routing for wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the Work-in-Progress Session, 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS08), Barcelona, Spain, December 2008. [PDF]

Technical Reports

S.S. Craciunas, R. Serna Oliver, and W. Steiner - Formal Scheduling Constraints for Time-Sensitive Networks, Technical Report, CoRR, arXiv:1712.02246, December, 2017. [Link]
S.S. Craciunas and R. Serna Oliver - An Overview of Scheduling Mechanisms for Time-sensitive Networks. In Proc. of the Real-time summer school L’École d’Été Temps Réel (ETR), Paris, France, 2017.
R. Serna Oliver - Estimation of the probability density function of end-to-end delays in Wireless Sensor Networks. Chair of Real Time Systems. Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, January 2009. [PDF]
P. Stanley-Marbell, T. Basten, J. Rousselot, R. Serna Oliver, H. Karl, M. Geilen, R. Hoes, G. Fohler, J.-D. Decotignie - System Models in Wireless Sensor Networks. Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronic Systems, May 2008. [PDF]

Ramon Serna Oliver

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