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This document describes a new consensus algorithm which is asynchronous and uses gossip based message dissemination between nodes. The current version of the algorithm does not cover the case of a node failure or significantly delayed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Maxim Zakharov

Motivated by the rapid push to decentralize sharing of data, we study whether large-scale data sharing coalitions can form in a decentralized manner under differential privacy when players have heterogeneous privacy preferences. We first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Raef Bassily , Kate Donahue , Diptangshu Sen , Annuo Zhao , Juba Ziani

Preserving the privacy of individuals by protecting their sensitive attributes is an important consideration during microdata release. However, it is equally important to preserve the quality or utility of the data for at least some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Dennis Wei , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Kush R. Varshney

In this chapter, we will explore the cloud-outsourced privacy-preserving computation of a controller on encrypted measurements from a (possibly distributed) system, taking into account the challenges introduced by the dynamical nature of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Andreea B. Alexandru , George J. Pappas

Cooperative control is crucial for the effective operation of dynamical multi-agent systems. Especially for distributed control schemes, it is essential to exchange data between the agents. This becomes a privacy threat if the data is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Philipp Binfet , Janis Adamek , Nils Schlüter , Moritz Schulze Darup

Blockchain technology has revolutionized the digital landscape, driving innovations across industries through its decentralized and transparent infrastructure. These networks are primarily categorized as public or private, based on user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammad Pishdar , Jawad Manzoor

The popularity of federated learning comes from the possibility of better scalability and the ability for participants to keep control of their data, improving data security and sovereignty. Unfortunately, sharing model updates also creates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet , Jalaj Upadhyay

Secure E-voting is a challenging protocol. Several approaches based on homomorphic crypto systems, mix-nets blind signatures are proposed in the literature .But most of them need complicated homomorphic encryption which involves complicated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-18 V P Binu , Divya G Nair , A Sreekumar

In this paper, we focus on the distributed quantized average consensus problem in open multi-agent systems consisting of communication links that change dynamically over time. Open multi-agent systems exhibiting the aforementioned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Jiaqi Hu , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

In this paper, we address the problem of secure distributed computation in scenarios where user data is not uniformly distributed, extending existing frameworks that assume uniformity, an assumption that is challenging to enforce in data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Saar Tarnopolsky , Zirui , Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Alejandro Cohen

The large spread of sensors and smart devices in urban infrastructures are motivating research in the area of Internet of Thing (IoT), to develop new services and improve citizens' quality of life. Sensors and smart devices generate large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Moreno Ambrosin , Paolo Braca , Mauro Conti , Riccardo Lazzaretti

In this paper we study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. Specifically, we present and analyze a distributed averaging algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

A consensus system is a linear multi-agent system in which agents communicate to reach a so-called consensus state, defined as the average of the initial states of the agents. Consider a more generalized situation in which each agent is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

In this document, a privacy-preserving distributed profile matching protocol is proposed in a particular network context called \emph{mobile social network}. Such networks are often deployed in more or less hostile environments, requiring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Rachid Chergui

We consider the problem of distributed average consensus in a sensor network where sensors exchange quantized information with their neighbors. We propose a novel quantization scheme that exploits the increasing correlation between the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Dorina Thanou , Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

This paper considers distributed average consensus using finite-bit bounded quantizer with possibly unbounded data. Under the framework of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), we develop distributed averaging algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Shengyu Zhu , Biao Chen

Anonymity and privacy are two key properties of modern communication networks. In quantum networks, distributed quantum sensing has emerged as a powerful use case, with applications to clock synchronisation, detecting gravitational effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jarn de Jong , Santiago Scheiner , Naomi R. Solomons , Ziad Chaoui , Damian Markham , Anna Pappa

Average consensus algorithms compute the global average of sensor data in a distributed fashion using local sensor nodes. Simple execution, decentralized philosophy make these algorithms suitable for WSN scenarios. Most of the researchers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Y. N. Singh

Distributed average consensus is the main mechanism in algorithms for decentralized computation. In distributed average consensus algorithm each node has an initial state, and the goal is to compute the average of these initial states in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Saber Jafarizadeh , Abbas Jamalipour