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We consider an asynchronous network of $n$ message-sending parties, up to $t$ of which are byzantine. We study approximate agreement, where the parties obtain approximately equal outputs in the convex hull of their inputs. In their seminal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Mose Mizrahi Erbes , Roger Wattenhofer

We present an algorithm for synchronous deterministic Byzantine consensus, tolerant to links failures and links asynchrony. It cares for a class of networks with specific needs, where both safety and liveness are essential, and timely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ivan Klianev

The paper studies average consensus with random topologies (intermittent links) \emph{and} noisy channels. Consensus with noise in the network links leads to the bias-variance dilemma--running consensus for long reduces the bias of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-08 Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

In this note, we discuss the problem of consensus finding in communication networks of agents with dynamically switching topologies. In particular, we consider the case of directed networks with unbalanced matrices of communication rates.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Jan Haskovec

We study the convergence speed of distributed iterative algorithms for the consensus and averaging problems, with emphasis on the latter. We first consider the case of a fixed communication topology. We show that a simple adaptation of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-13 Alex Olshevsky , John N. Tsitsiklis

This paper is devoted to deterministic consensus in synchronous dynamic networks with unidirectional links, which are under the control of an omniscient message adversary. Motivated by unpredictable node/system initialization times and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Manfred Schwarz , Kyrill Winkler , Ulrich Schmid

We consider the average-consensus problem in a multi-node network of finite size. Communication between nodes is modeled by a sequence of directed signals with arbitrary communication delays. Four distributed algorithms that achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-23 Kevin Topley , Vikram Krishnamurthy

We introduce a new class of distributed algorithms for the approximate consensus problem in dynamic rooted networks, which we call amortized averaging algorithms. They are deduced from ordinary averaging algorithms by adding a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Matthias Függer , Thomas Nowak

In this work, we study the approximate consensus problem in asynchronous message-passing networks where some nodes may become Byzantine faulty. We answer an open problem raised by Tseng and Vaidya, 2012, proposing the first algorithm of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Dimitris Sakavalas , Lewis Tseng , Nitin H. Vaidya

In the stabilizing consensus problem, each agent of a networked system has an input value and is repeatedly writing an output value; it is required that eventually all the output values stabilize to the same value which, moreover, must be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Shlomo Moran

Motivated by the need for robust and fast distributed computation in highly dynamic Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, we study algorithms for the fundamental distributed agreement problem. P2P networks are highly dynamic networks that experience…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 John Augustine , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Eli Upfal

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

A distributed average consensus algorithm robust to a wide range of impulsive channel noise distributions is proposed. This work is the first of its kind in the literature to propose a consensus algorithm which relaxes the requirement of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh Banavar , Andreas Spanias

The aim of this paper is to analyze a class of consensus algorithms with finite-time or fixed-time convergence for dynamic networks formed by agents with first-order dynamics. In particular, in the analyzed class a single evaluation of a…

This paper studies the fastest distributed consensus averaging problem on branches of an arbitrary connected sensor network. In the previous works full knowledge about the sensor network's connectivity topology was required for determining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Saber Jafarizadeh , Abbas Jamalipour

Approximate agreement is one of the few variants of consensus that can be solved in a wait-free manner in asynchronous systems where processes communicate by reading and writing to shared memory. In this work, we consider a natural…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Dan Alistarh , Faith Ellen , Joel Rybicki

In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods proposed in the literature address the consensus averaging problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

In this paper, we address the discrete-time average consensus problem in strongly connected directed graphs, where nodes exchange information over unreliable error-prone communication links. We enhance the Robustified Ratio Consensus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Evagoras Makridis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Consensus of autonomous agents is a benchmark problem in cooperative control. In this paper, we consider standard continuous-time averaging consensus policies (or Laplacian flows) over time-varying graphs and focus on robustness of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Guiseppe Calafiore

We study the problem of asymptotic consensus as it occurs in a wide range of applications in both man-made and natural systems. In particular, we study systems with directed communication graphs that may change over time. We recently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Matthias Függer , Thomas Nowak