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In this work we present three different randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

GossipSub is a popular new peer-to-peer network protocol designed to disseminate messages quickly and efficiently by allowing peers to forward the full content of messages only to a dynamically selected subset of their neighboring peers…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Ankit Kumar , Max von Hippel , Panagiotis Manolios , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

In this paper, we study the question of how efficiently a collection of interconnected nodes can perform a global computation in the widely studied GOSSIP model of communication. In this model, nodes do not know the global topology of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Keren Censor-Hillel , Bernhard Haeupler , Jonathan A. Kelner , Petar Maymounkov

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

The Push, the Pull and the Push&Pull algorithms are well-studied rumor spreading protocols. In all three, in the beginning one node of a graph is informed. In the Push setting, every round every informed node chooses a neighbor uniformly at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Rami Daknama

The wide spread of rumors on social media has caused a negative impact on people's daily life, leading to potential panic, fear, and mental health problems for the public. How to debunk rumors as early as possible remains a challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tianrui Liu , Qi Cai , Changxin Xu , Bo Hong , Fanghao Ni , Yuxin Qiao , Tsungwei Yang

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

Push-Pull is a well-studied round-robin rumor spreading protocol defined as follows: initially a node knows a rumor and wants to spread it to all nodes in a network quickly. In each round, every informed node sends the rumor to a random…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Abbas Mehrabian , Ali Pourmiri

Consider a network of nodes where each node has a message to communicate to all other nodes. For this communication problem, we analyze a gossip based protocol where coded messages are exchanged. This problem was studied by Aoyama and Shah…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-16 Dinkar Vasudevan , Shrinivas Kudekar

In this work we present a randomized gossip algorithm for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration complexity bounds for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

The \emph{beep model} is a very weak communications model in which devices in a network can communicate only via beeps and silence. As a result of its weak assumptions, it has broad applicability to many different implementations of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies

Gossipping has demonstrate to be an efficient mechanism for spreading information among P2P networks. Within the context of P2P computing, we propose the so-called Evolvable Agent Model for distributed population-based algorithms which uses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. L. J. Laredo , E. A. Eiben , M. Schoenauer , P. A. Castillo , A. M. Mora , F. Fernandez , J. J. Merelo

In this paper, we present an experimental analysis of the asynchronous push & pull rumour spreading protocol. This protocol is, to date, the best-performing rumour spreading protocol for simple, scalable, and robust information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Christos Patsonakis , Mema Roussopoulos

We give a new technique to analyze the stopping time of gossip protocols that are based on random linear network coding (RLNC). Our analysis drastically simplifies, extends and strengthens previous results. We analyze RLNC gossip in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-05 Bernhard Haeupler

In this paper, we propose a general analytical framework for information spreading in mobile networks based on a new performance metric, mobile conductance, which allows us to separate the details of mobility models from the study of mobile…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Huazi Zhang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Huaiyu Dai

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

Investigating network covert channels in smartphones has become increasingly important as smartphones have recently replaced the role of traditional computers. Smartphones are subject to traditional computer network covert channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Bushra Aloraini , Daryl Johnson , Bill Stackpole , Sumita Mishra

We study a multi-call variant of the classic PUSH&PULL rumor spreading process where nodes can contact $k$ of their neighbors instead of a single one during both PUSH and PULL operations. We show that rumor spreading can be made faster at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Emilio Cruciani , Sebastian Forster , Tijn de Vos

Over the past decade, mobile phones have become prevalent in all parts of the world, across all demographic backgrounds. Mobile phones are used by men and women across a wide age range in both developed and developing countries.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Jorge Brea , Javier Burroni , Carlos Sarraute

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