The "Best Paper Award" of the 16th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 25.-28. Januar 2011 in Yokohama, Japan, went to the RCS, for the paper "Co-design of Cyber-Physical Systems via Controllers with Flexible Delay Constraints". The authors are Dip Goswami, Reinhard Schneider, and Samarjit Chakraborty.

The "Best Paper Award" of the 8th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 11.-13. December 2010 in Hong Kong SAR, China, went to the RCS and Linkoeping University, Sweden, for the paper "Optimized Schedule Synthesis under Real-Time Constraints for the Dynamic Segment of FlexRay". The authors are Reinhard Schneider, Unmesh Bordoloi, Dip Goswami, and Samarjit Chakraborty.

The paper "Modeling Buffers with Data Refresh Semantics in Automotive Architectures" received a "Best Paper Award nomination" at the 10th International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Scottsdale, Arizona, 2010. The authors are Linh T.X. Phan, Reinhard Schneider, Samarjit Chakraborty, and Insup Lee.