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This paper presents greedy gossip with eavesdropping (GGE), a novel randomized gossip algorithm for distributed computation of the average consensus problem. In gossip algorithms, nodes in the network randomly communicate with their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Deniz Ustebay , Boris Oreshkin , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

Gossip algorithms are widely used in modern distributed systems, with applications ranging from sensor networks and peer-to-peer networks to mobile vehicle networks and social networks. A tremendous research effort has been devoted to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Guodong Shi , Bo Li , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

We consider a decentralized optimization problem, in which $n$ nodes collaborate to optimize a global objective function using local communications only. While many decentralized algorithms focus on \emph{gossip} communications (pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Hadrien Hendrikx

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

The gossip problem (telephone problem) is an information dissemination problem in which each of $n$ nodes of a communication network has a unique piece of information that must be transmitted to all the other nodes using two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-12 V. H. Hovnanyan , H. E. Nahapetyan , Su. S. Poghosyan , V. S. Poghosyan

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

Large language models have advanced rapidly, but no single model excels in every area -- each has its strengths and weaknesses. Instead of relying on one model alone, we take inspiration from gossip protocols in distributed systems, where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Saksham Arora

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving technique for collaborative model training across heterogeneously distributed silos. Yet, its reliance on a single central server introduces potential bottlenecks and risks of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Huong Nguyen , Hong-Tri Nguyen , Praveen Kumar Donta , Susanna Pirttikangas , Lauri Lovén

We focus on the well-studied problem of distributed overlay network construction. We consider a synchronous gossip-based communication model where in each round a node can send a message of small size to another node whose identifier it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Fabien Dufoulon , Michael Moorman , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

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

Distributed gossip algorithm has been studied in literature for practical implementation of the distributed consensus algorithm as a fundamental algorithm for the purpose of in-network collaborative processing. This paper focuses on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Saber Jafarizadeh

We propose communication pattern logic. A communication pattern describes how processes or agents inform each other, independently of the information content. The full-information protocol in distributed computing is the special case…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Armando Castañeda , Hans van Ditmarsch , David A. Rosenblueth , Diego A. Velázquez

Gossip protocols are popular methods for average consensus problems in distributed computing. We prove new convergence guarantees for a variety of such protocols, including path, clique, and synchronous pairwise gossip. These arise by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Jamie Haddock , Benjamin Jarman , Chen Yap

Gossip algorithms for distributed computation are attractive due to their simplicity, distributed nature, and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, using standard gossip algorithms can lead to a significant waste in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Anand D. Sarwate , Martin J. Wainwright

In this paper we present various distributed algorithms for LP-type problems in the well-known gossip model. LP-type problems include many important classes of problems such as (integer) linear programming, geometric problems like smallest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Martijn Struijs

Bots, in recent times, have posed a major threat to enterprise networks. With the distributed nature of the way in which botnets operate, the problems faced by enterprises have become acute. A bot is a program that operates as an agent for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Manoj Rameshchandra Thakur

We study a gossip-based algorithm for searching data objects in a multipeer communication network. All of the nodes in the network are able to communicate with each other. There exists an initiator node that starts a round of searches by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Eva Jaho , Ioannis Koukoutsidis , Siyu Tang , Ioannis Stavrakakis , Piet Van Mieghem

This paper investigates the problem of distributed network-wide averaging and proposes a new greedy gossip algorithm. Instead of finding the optimal path of each node in a greedy manner, the proposed approach utilises a suboptimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hyo-Sang Shin , Shaoming He , Antonios Tsourdos

We study a general scenario where confidential information is distributed among a group of agents who wish to share it in such a way that the data becomes common knowledge among them but an eavesdropper intercepting their communications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-03 David Fernández-Duque

This paper analyzes the adoption of unstructured P2P overlay networks to build publish-subscribe systems. We consider a very simple distributed communication protocol, based on gossip and on the local knowledge each node has about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Stefano Ferretti