Publications

Journals and Book chapters:

(1) Syed Eqbal Alam, Dhirendra Shukla, and Shrisha Rao, A Communication-Efficient Local Differentially Private Algorithm in Federated Optimization, IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 58254-58268, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3283503.

(2) Pietro Ferraro, Jia Yuan Yu, Ramen Ghosh, Syed Eqbal Alam, Jakub Marecek, Fabian Wirth, and Robert Shorten, On unique ergodicity of coupled AIMD flows, International Journal of Control, October 2023.

(3) Syed Eqbal Alam, Robert Shorten, Fabian Wirth, and Jia Yuan Yu, Distributed Algorithms for Internet-of-Things-enabled Prosumer Markets: A Control Theoretic PerspectiveAnalytics for the Sharing Economy: Mathematics, Engineering and Business perspectives, Springer, pages 125-149, 2020, ISBN-978-3030350314, preprint.

(4) Syed Eqbal Alam, Shrisha Rao, and Bijan Davvaz, (m, n)-Semirings and a Generalized Fault Tolerance Algebra of Systems, Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 2013, Article ID 482391, 2013.

Conference proceedings:

(1) Syed Eqbal Alam and Dhirendra Shukla, Communication-efficient Allocation of Multiple Indivisible Resources in a Federated Multi-agent System, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, December 13–15, 2023.

(2) Syed Eqbal Alam, Dhirendra Shukla, and Shrisha Rao, “Near Optimal Differentially Private Client Selection in Federated Settings,” 59th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September, 2023, preprint.

(3) Syed Eqbal Alam and Dhirendra Shukla, “Communication-efficient Preference-based Federated Multi-resource Allocation,”  59th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/Allerton58177.2023.10313434.

(4) Syed Eqbal Alam and Dhirendra Shukla, Existence of a Unique Invariant Measure and Ergodic Property in AIMD-based Multi-resource Allocation2023 American Control Conference (ACC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 2592-2598.

(5) Syed Eqbal Alam, Jia Yuan Yu, and Jakub Marecek, Communication-efficient Federated Constrained Optimization, accepted as an extended abstract at the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2023.

(6) Syed Eqbal Alam and Dhirendra Shukla, Optimal Regulation of Prosumers and Consumers in Smart Energy CommunitiesIEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2022, pp. 1-7, preprint, presentation-slides.

(7) Syed Eqbal Alam, Robert Shorten, Fabian Wirth, and Jia Yuan Yu, The Derandomized Distributed Multi-resource Allocation with Little Communication Overhead, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, USA, October, 2018.

(8) Syed Eqbal Alam, Robert Shorten, Fabian Wirth, and Jia Yuan Yu, Communication-efficient Distributed Multi-resource Allocation, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Kansas City, USA, September, 2018, [finalist for best paper award], preprint.

(9) Amartya Dasgupta, Syed Eqbal Alam, Arijit Mitra, Salone Gupta, Sneha Joseph, and Shrisha Rao, High Availability Using Virtualization, ISCA 24th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE 2011), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, November 2011.

Other articles:

(1) Syed Eqbal Alam, Sultan Aljahdali, and Nisar Hundewale, (m,n)-Semihyperrings and an Algebra of Fuzzy (m,n)-Semihyperrings, arXiv:1511.02773 [math.GM], 2015.

PhD Thesis:

Title: Communication-efficient Distributed Multi-resource Allocation

Supervisors: Jia Yuan Yu (Concordia University) and Robert Shorten (Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK)

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada