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We investigate how suitable a weighted network is for gossip spreading. The proposed model is based on the gossip spreading model introduced by Lind et.al. on unweighted networks. Weight represents "friendship." Potential spreader prefers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

In this paper, we study random gossip processes in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in standard smartphone operating systems. Random gossip processes spread information through the basic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver

In this work we present a new framework for the analysis and design of randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem. We show how classical randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems can be interpreted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik

While distributed learning offers a new learning paradigm for distributed network with no central coordination, it is constrained by communication bottleneck between nodes. We develop a new event-triggered gossip framework for distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Rui Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li

As agentic platforms scale, agents are evolving beyond static roles and fixed toolchains, creating a growing need for flexible, decentralized coordination. Today's structured communication protocols (e.g., direct agent-to-agent messaging)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansura Habiba , Nafiul I. Khan

Many of today's most pressing issues require a more robust understanding of how information spreads in populations. Current models of information spread can be thought of as falling into one of two varieties: epidemiologically-inspired…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-03 Sagar Kumar , Moritz Laber , Maimuna S. Majumder , Brooke Foucault Welles

In this paper, we study an asynchronous randomized gossip algorithm under unreliable communication. At each instance, two nodes are selected to meet with a given probability. When nodes meet, two unreliable communication links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Guodong Shi , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

Information dissemination is a fundamental problem in parallel and distributed computing. In its simplest variant, the broadcasting problem, a message has to be spread among all nodes of a graph. A prominent communication protocol for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Robert Elsässer , Dominik Kaaser

Mobile networks receive increasing research interest recently due to their increasingly wide applications in various areas; mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) are two prominent examples. Mobility introduces…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Huazi Zhang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Huaiyu Dai

We consider a network of $n$ user nodes that receives updates from a source and employs an age-based gossip protocol for faster dissemination of version updates to all nodes. When a node forwards its packet to another node, the packet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

Gossiping is a communication mechanism, used for fast information dissemination in a network, where each node of the network randomly shares its information with the neighboring nodes. To characterize the notion of fastness in the context…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Priyanka Kaswan , Purbesh Mitra , Arunabh Srivastava , Sennur Ulukus

A gossip protocol is a procedure for spreading secrets among a group of agents, using a connection graph. The goal is for all agents to get to know all secrets, in which case we call the execution of the protocol successful. We consider…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Hans van Ditmarsch , Jan van Eijck , Pere Pardo , Rahim Ramezanian , François Schwarzentruber

In the IoT era, information is more and more frequently picked up by connected smart sensors with increasing, though limited, storage, communication and computation abilities. Whether due to privacy constraints or to the structure of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Stephan Clémençon , Joseph Salmon

This paper focuses on non-asymptotic diffusion time in asynchronous gossip protocols. Asynchronous gossip protocols are designed to perform distributed computation in a network of nodes by randomly exchanging messages on the associated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 David Picard , Jérôme Fellus , Stéphane Garnier

We consider a system model with two sources, a reliable source and an unreliable source, who are responsible for disseminating updates regarding a process to an age-based gossip network of $n$ nodes. Nodes wish to have fresh information,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

Machine learning over fully distributed data poses an important problem in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. In this model we have one data record at each network node, but without the possibility to move raw data due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Róbert Ormándi , István Hegedüs , Márk Jelasity

We study networks of gossiping users where a source observing a process sends updates to an underlying graph. Nodes in the graph update their neighbors randomly and nodes always accept packets that have newer information, thus attempting to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Thomas Jacob Maranzatto , Arunabh Srivastava , Sennur Ulukus

We consider gossiping in a fully-connected wireless network consisting of $n$ nodes. The network receives Poisson updates from a source, which generates new information. The nodes gossip their available information with the neighboring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Purbesh Mitra , Sennur Ulukus

Gossip algorithms are widely used to solve the distributed consensus problem, but issues can arise when nodes receive multiple signals either at the same time or before they are able to finish processing their current work load.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Christopher D. Hollander , Annie S. Wu

We study a general framework for broadcast gossip algorithms which use companion variables to solve the average consensus problem. Each node maintains an initial state and a companion variable. Iterative updates are performed asynchronously…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Wu Shaochuan , Michael G. Rabbat