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Convergence speed of unsteady distributed consensus: decay estimate along the settling spanning-trees

Optimization and Control 2007-12-22 v2

Abstract

Results for estimating the convergence rate of non-stationary distributed consensus algorithms are provided, on the basis of qualitative (mainly topological) as well as basic quantitative information (lower-bounds on the matrix entries). The results appear to be tight in a number of instances and are illustrated through simple as well as more sophisticated examples. The main idea is to follow propagation of information along certain spanning trees which arise in the communication graph.

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@article{arxiv.math/0610854,
  title  = {Convergence speed of unsteady distributed consensus: decay estimate along the settling spanning-trees},
  author = {David Angeli and Pierre-Alexandre Bliman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0610854},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

27 pages, 5 figures

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