Dr Ahmed M. A. Sayed

Ahmed M. A. Sayed
Ph.D. of Comp Sci & Eng, DERI Fellow, FEHA

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Director of MSc Data Science Programme

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/people/profiles/sayedahmed.html
Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems
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Research

Federated Learning, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Performance Evaluation & Optimisation

Interests

I lead SAYED Systems Group (https://sayed-sys-lab.github.io) in which we build Scalable, Advanced
Yet Efficient Distributed Systems of the Future. Our research spans inter-related disciplines of computer
science and engineering with a focus on system design and optimization for machine learning systems
(training and inference efficiency, distributed ML, federated learning), distributed systems (architecture
design, performance analysis, resource allocation, algorithmic optimization), computer networks (traffic
engineering, congestion control, performance optimization, software-defined networking), and wireless
networks (routing in mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks). We work closely with the Networks
research group (https://networks.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/) at QMUL and various research groups in the UK
and worldwide. Our main research project is KUber (http://kuber.org.uk/) funded by UKRI-EPSRC.

Publications

solid heart iconPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems

2024

bullet iconKnowledge Routing in Decentralized Learning
Abdelmoniem AM and Zhao Y
Ieee Intelligent Systems, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. PP (99), 1-8.  
28-11-2024
Relevant PublicationTowards a Decentralized Collaborative Framework for Scalable Edge AI
Abdelmoniem AM, Jaber M, Anwar A, Zhang Y and Gao M
Future Internet, Mdpi vol. 16 (11) 
14-11-2024
bullet iconAFML: An Asynchronous Federated Meta-Learning Mechanism for Charging Station Occupancy Prediction with Biased and Isolated Data
Chen Q, Li H, You L, Qu H, Abdelmoniem AM and Yuen C
Ieee Transactions On Big Data, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. PP (99), 1-16.  
22-10-2024
bullet iconMpScope: Enabling multi-pipeline monitoring inside a switch
Huang C, Zhang T, Wang L, Xiao Y, Yang C, Tian C, Wang X, Zhang D, Yan B, Abdelmoniem AM, Dou W and Chen G
Computer Networks, Elsevier vol. 254, 110764-110764.  
03-09-2024
bullet iconData privacy and integrity in complex data
Bhattacharjee S, Choudhury T and Abdelmoniem AM
In Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things For Industrial Automation, Taylor & Francis 163-190.  
15-08-2024
bullet iconDesign and Analysis of an Incast Mitigation System
Abdelmoniem AM, Abdelmoniem YM and Bensaou B
2024 International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt). vol. 00, 368-373.  
25-07-2024
Relevant PublicationCentralised and Decentralised Fraud Detection Approaches in Federated Learning
Lynch S, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS
In Applications of Ai For Interdisciplinary Research, Taylor & Francis 205-217.  
22-07-2024
bullet iconFederated Learning for the Predicting Household Financial Expenditure
Lai HK, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS
In Applications of Ai For Interdisciplinary Research, Taylor & Francis 141-156.  
22-07-2024
bullet iconStock Market Price Prediction: A Hybrid LSTM and Sequential Self-Attention-based Approach
Pardeshi K, Gill SS and Abdelmoniem AM
In Applications of Ai For Interdisciplinary Research, Taylor & Francis 122-140.  
22-07-2024
bullet iconDo 5G Networks Achieve The Proclaimed Promises? An Empirical Study Using YouTube Edge Service
Song P, Lee J, Abdelmoniem AM and Mukhanov L
2024 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE). vol. 00, 29-34.  
13-07-2024
bullet iconPerformance Profiling of Federated Learning Across Heterogeneous Mobile Devices
Esquivel JA, Aldous B, Abdelmoniem AM, Alhilal A and You L
2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C). vol. 00, 363-372.  
05-07-2024
bullet iconSDANet: scale-deformation awareness network for crowd counting
Wang J, Guo X, Li Q, Abdelmoniem AM and Gao M
Journal of Electronic Imaging, Spie, The International Society For Optics and Photonics vol. 33 (4), 043002-043002.  
01-07-2024
bullet iconEMPRN: Reinforcement Learning-based ECN Tuning Using Message Passing Graph Recurrent Networks for Datacenters
Zaeri K and Abdelmoniem AM
ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. vol. 00, 4668-4673.  
13-06-2024
bullet iconCross-Modality Interaction Network for Medical Image Fusion
Song W, Zeng X, Abdelmoniem AM, Zhang H and Gao M
Ieee Transactions On Consumer Electronics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. PP (99), 1-1.  
11-06-2024
bullet iconDecentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse
Agarwal V, Raman A, Sastry N, Abdelmoniem AM, Tyson G and Castro I
Proceedings of The International Aaai Conference On Web and Social Media, Association For The Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Aaai) vol. 18, 2-14.  
28-05-2024
bullet iconResource-Aware Split Federated Learning for Edge Intelligence
Arouj A, Abdelmoniem AM, Alhilal A, You L and Wang C
2024 IEEE 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning on Edge in Sensor Systems (SenSys-ML). vol. 00, 15-20.  
16-05-2024
bullet iconExploring Representational Similarity Analysis to Protect Federated Learning from Data Poisoning
Chen G, Li K, Abdelmoniem AM and You L
Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024., 525-528.  
13-05-2024
bullet iconDecentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse
Mohamed Abdelmoniem Sayed A
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 
08-05-2024
bullet iconFLAIR: A Fast and Low-Redundancy Failure Recovery Framework for Inter Data Center Network
Zhang Y, Huang H, Abdelmoniem AM, Zeng G, Zheng C, Que X, Wang W and Xu K
Ieee Transactions On Cloud Computing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 12 (2), 737-749.  
02-05-2024
bullet iconTowards Energy-Aware Federated Learning via Collaborative Computing Approach
Arouj A and Abdelmoniem AM
Computer Communications, Elsevier vol. 221, 131-141.  
01-05-2024
bullet iconFLOAT: Federated Learning Optimizations with Automated Tuning
Khan AF, Khan AA, Abdelmoniem AM, Fountain S, Butt AR and Anwar A
Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems., 200-218.  
22-04-2024
bullet iconComparative Profiling
Aldous B and Abdelmoniem AM
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems., 176-183.  
22-04-2024
bullet iconDimensioning the pending interest table in content-centric networks
Abu AJ, Bensaou B and Abdelmoniem AM
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier vol. 152, 179-192.  
01-03-2024
bullet iconSecurity Threats and Promising Solutions Arising from the Intersection of AI and IoT: A Study of IoMT and IoET Applications
Alrubayyi H, Alshareef MS, Nadeem Z, Abdelmoniem AM and Jaber M
Future Internet, Mdpi vol. 16 (3) 
29-02-2024
bullet iconPublisher Correction to: Leveraging chaos for enhancing encryption and compression in large cloud data transfers
Bhattacharjee S, Sharma H, Choudhury T and Abdelmoniem AM
The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Nature vol. 80 (9), 13493-13494.  
19-02-2024
bullet iconLeveraging chaos for enhancing encryption and compression in large cloud data transfers
Bhattacharjee S, Sharma H, Choudhury T and Abdelmoniem AM
The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Nature vol. 80 (9), 11923-11957.  
04-02-2024
bullet iconAlleviating Congestion via Switch Design for Fair Buffer Allocation in Datacenters
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
Ieee Transactions On Cloud Computing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 12 (1), 219-231.  
23-01-2024
bullet iconCentralised and Decentralised Fraud Detection Approaches in Federated Learning: A Performance Analysis
Lynch S, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS
In Applications of Ai For Interdisciplinary Research 205-217.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconManipulating Pre-Trained Encoder for Targeted Poisoning Attacks in Contrastive Learning
Chen J, Gao Y, Liu G, Abdelmoniem AM and Wang C
Ieee Transactions On Information Forensics and Security, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 19, 2412-2424.  
01-01-2024

2023

bullet iconEnsuring reliable network operations and maintenance: The role of PMRF for switch maintenance and upgrades in SDN
Khan N, bin Salleh R, Khan Z, Koubaa A, Hamdan M and Abdelmoniem AM
Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier vol. 35 (10) 
01-12-2023
bullet iconAchieving Zero-copy Serialization for Datacenter RPC
Zhang T, Zhou H, Huang C, Tian C, Zhang W, Wang X, Wang Y, Abdelmoniem AM, Tan M, Dou W and Chen G
2023 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC)., 304-312.  
17-11-2023
bullet iconA Differential Privacy Approach for Privacy-Preserving Multi-Modal Stress Detection
Alshareef MS, Jaber M and Abdelmoniem AM
2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). vol. 00, 206-212.  
08-11-2023
bullet iconFederated Learning for IoT Networks: Enhancing Efficiency and Privacy
Zahri S, Bennouri H, Chehri A and Abdelmoniem AM
2023 IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT). vol. 00, 1-6.  
27-10-2023
Relevant PublicationA meta-learning based stacked regression approach for customer lifetime value prediction
Gadgil K, Gill SS and Abdelmoniem AM
Journal of Economy and Technology, Elsevier vol. 1, 197-207.  
22-09-2023
bullet iconA2FL: Availability-Aware Selection for Machine Learning on Clients with Federated Big Data
Abdelmoniem AM, Abdelmoniem YM and Elzanaty A
ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. vol. 00, 1200-1205.  
01-06-2023
Relevant PublicationREFL: Resource-Efficient Federated Learning
Abdelmoniem AM, Sahu AN, Canini M and Fahmy SA
Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems., 215-232.  
08-05-2023
bullet iconEnhancing TCP via Hysteresis Switching: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evaluation
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Networking, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 31 (6), 2614-2623.  
07-04-2023
Relevant PublicationFortaleza: The emergence of a network hub
Bragion E, Akter H, Kumar M, Xu M, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems vol. 3, 272-279.  
18-01-2023
bullet iconA Comprehensive Empirical Study of Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
Abdelmoniem AM, Ho C-Y, Papageorgiou P and Canini M
Ieee Internet of Things Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 10 (16), 14071-14083.  
15-01-2023
bullet iconKnowledge Representation of Training Data With Adversarial Examples Supporting Decision Boundary
Tian Z, Wang Z, Abdelmoniem AM, Liu G and Wang C
Ieee Transactions On Information Forensics and Security, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 18, 4116-4127.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationLeveraging Cloud-Native Microservices Architecture for High Performance Real-Time Intra-Day Trading: A Tutorial
Hota M, Abdelmoniem AM, Xu M and Gill SS
In 6g Enabled Fog Computing in Iot, Springer Nature 111-129.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationGPU Based AI for Modern E-Commerce Applications: Performance Evaluation, Analysis and Future Directions
Tewatia S, Patel AA, Abdelmoniem AM, Xu M, Kaur K, Kumar M, Chowdhury D, Kumar A, Singh M and Gill SS
In 6g Enabled Fog Computing in Iot, Springer Nature 63-89.  
01-01-2023

2022

Relevant PublicationAI-based fog and edge computing: A systematic review, taxonomy and future directions
Iftikhar S, Gill SS, Song C, Xu M, Aslanpour MS, Toosi AN, Du J, Wu H, Ghosh S, Chowdhury D, Golec M, Kumar M, Abdelmoniem AM, Cuadrado F, Varghese B, Rana O, Dustdar S and Uhlig S
Internet of Things, Elsevier Bv vol. 21, 100674-100674.  
20-12-2022
bullet iconTowards energy-aware federated learning on battery-powered clients
Arouj A and Abdelmoniem AM
Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Data Privacy and Federated Learning Technologies for Mobile Edge Network., 7-12.  
17-10-2022
bullet iconActive clustering data streams with affinity propagation
Abdulah S, Atwa W and Abdelmoniem AM
Ict Express, Elsevier vol. 8 (2), 276-282.  
01-06-2022
Relevant PublicationEmpirical analysis of federated learning in heterogeneous environments
Abdelmoniem AM, Ho C-Y, Papageorgiou P and Canini M
Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems., 1-9.  
05-04-2022

2021

bullet iconGRACE: A Compressed Communication Framework for Distributed Machine Learning
Xu H, Ho C-Y, Abdelmoniem AM, Dutta A, Bergou EH, Karatsenidis K, Canini M and Kalnis P
2021 IEEE 41st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). vol. 00, 561-572.  
10-07-2021
bullet iconA Two-tiered Caching Scheme for Information-Centric Networks
Chiu KHT, Wang JM, Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR). vol. 00, 1-6.  
10-06-2021
bullet iconDC2: Delay-aware Compression Control for Distributed Machine Learning
Abdelmoniem AM and Canini M
IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. vol. 00, 1-10.  
13-05-2021
bullet iconTowards Mitigating Device Heterogeneity in Federated Learning via Adaptive Model Quantization
Abdelmoniem AM and Canini M
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems., 96-103.  
26-04-2021
bullet iconT-RACKs: A Faster Recovery Mechanism for TCP in Data Center Networks
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Networking, Association For Computing Machinery (Acm) vol. 29 (3), 1074-1087.  
08-03-2021
bullet iconRethinking gradient sparsification as total error minimization
Sahu AN, Banerjee T, Dutta A, Canini M, Abdelmoniem AM and Kalnis P
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. vol. 10, 8133-8146.  
01-01-2021

2020

bullet iconHuffman Coding Based Encoding Techniques for Fast Distributed Deep Learning
Gajjala RR, Banchhor S, Abdelmoniem AM, Dutta A, Canini M and Kalnis P
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning., 21-27.  
01-12-2020
bullet iconReducing Latency in Multi-Tenant Data Centers via Cautious Congestion Watch
Abdelmoniem AM, Susanto H and Bensaou B
49th International Conference on Parallel Processing - ICPP., 1-11.  
17-08-2020
bullet iconOn the Discrepancy between the Theoretical Analysis and Practical Implementations of Compressed Communication for Distributed Deep Learning
Dutta A, Bergou EH, Abdelmoniem AM, Ho C-Y, Sahu AN, Canini M and Kalnis P
Proceedings of The Aaai Conference On Artificial Intelligence, Association For The Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Aaai) vol. 34 (04), 3817-3824.  
03-04-2020

2019

bullet iconA Near Optimal Multi-Faced Job Scheduler for Datacenter Workloads
Susanto H, Abdelmoniem AM, Zhang H, Liu B and Towsley D
2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). vol. 00, 2026-2036.  
07-07-2019
bullet iconTaming Latency in Data centers via Active Congestion-Probing
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Susanto H
2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). vol. 00, 101-110.  
07-07-2019
bullet iconCreek: Inter Many-to-Many Coflows Scheduling for Datacenter Networks
Susanto H, Abdelmoniem AM, Jin H and Bensaou B
ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). vol. 00, 1-6.  
24-05-2019
bullet iconHysteresis-based Active Queue Management for TCP Traffic in Data Centers
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. vol. 00, 1621-1629.  
02-05-2019
bullet iconUranus: Congestion-proportionality among slices based on Weighted Virtual Congestion Control
Dong J, Yin H, Tian C, Abdelmoniem AM, Zhou H, Bai B and Zhang G
Computer Networks, Elsevier vol. 152, 154-166.  
01-04-2019
bullet iconOn Network Systems Design: Pushing the Performance Envelope via FPGA Prototyping
Abdelmoniem AM, Abdelmoniem YM and Bensaou B
2019 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Computer Engineering (ITCE). vol. 00, 80-85.  
21-02-2019

2018

bullet iconIncastGuard: An Efficient TCP- Incast Mitigation Mechanism for Cloud Networks
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Barsourrr V
2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). vol. 00, 1-6.  
09-12-2018
bullet iconCurbing Timeouts for TCP-Incast in Data Centers via A Cross-Layer Faster Recovery Mechanism
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. vol. 00, 675-683.  
16-04-2018

2017

bullet iconEnforcing Transport-Agnostic Congestion Control in SDN-based Data Centers
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)., 128-136.  
01-10-2017
bullet iconMitigating incast-TCP congestion in data centers with SDN
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Abu AJ
Annals of Telecommunications, Springer Nature vol. 73 (3-4), 263-277.  
30-08-2017
bullet iconSICC: SDN-based Incast Congestion Control for Data Centers
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Abu AJ
2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)., 1-6.  
01-05-2017
bullet iconA Resilient Auction Framework for Deadline-Aware Jobs in Cloud Spot Market (Poster Abstract)
Sabvasachi AS, Kabir HMD, Abdelmoniem AM and Mondal SK
2017 IEEE 36th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)., 247-249.  
01-01-2017

2016

bullet iconInferring and Controlling Congestion in CCN via the Pending Interest Table Occupancy
Abu AJ, Bensaou B and Abdelmoniem AM
2016 IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)., 433-441.  
22-12-2016
bullet iconA Markov Model of CCN Pending Interest Table Occupancy with Interest Timeout and Retries
Abu AJ, Bensaou B and Abdelmoniem AM
2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)., 1-6.  
01-05-2016
bullet iconHyGenICC: Hypervisor-Based Generic IP Congestion Control for Virtualized Data Centers
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Abu AJ
2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)., 1-6.  
01-05-2016
bullet iconIncast-Aware Switch-Assisted TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)., 1-6.  
25-02-2016

2015

bullet iconReconciling Mice and Elephants in Data Center Networks
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
2015 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet)., 119-124.  
01-10-2015

2014

bullet iconIncast-Aware Switch-Assisted TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B
2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)., 1-6.  
01-12-2014

Grants

solid heart iconGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems
solid heart iconKUber: Knowledge Delivery System for Machine Learning at Scale
Ahmed M. A. Sayed
£522,781 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2027

solid heart iconModeration in Decentralised Social Networks
Ignacio De Castro Arribas, Gareth Tyson and Ahmed M. A. Sayed
£65,058 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-05-2022 - 30-06-2023