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We study the problem of patrolling the nodes of a network collaboratively by a team of mobile agents, such that each node of the network is visited by at least one agent once in every $I(n)$ time units, with the objective of minimizing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Shantanu Das , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Leszek A. Gasieniec

We study the control of a linear dynamical system with adversarial disturbances (as opposed to statistical noise). The objective we consider is one of regret: we desire an online control procedure that can do nearly as well as that of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Naman Agarwal , Brian Bullins , Elad Hazan , Sham M. Kakade , Karan Singh

This paper considers peer-to-peer scheduling for a network with multiple wireless devices. A subset of the devices are mobile users that desire specific files. Each user may already have certain popular files in its cache. The remaining…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Michael J. Neely

A Mobile Ad hoc Network can be said as a collection of mobile nodes, which builds a dynamic topology and a resource constrained network. Due to dynamic nature routing is challenging in MANET. In Mobile Ad hoc Networks different type of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Kishan N. Patel , Rutvij H. Jhaveri

In this paper, we present a communication-free algorithm for distributed coverage of an arbitrary network by a group of mobile agents with local sensing capabilities. The network is represented as a graph, and the agents are arbitrarily…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

Existing protocols for multilateral negotiation require a full consensus among the negotiating parties. In contrast, we propose a protocol for multilateral negotiation that allows partial consensus, wherein only a subset of the negotiating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Pradeep K. Murukannaiah , Catholijn M. Jonker

We investigate a graph probing problem in which an agent has only an incomplete view $G' \subsetneq G$ of the network and wishes to explore the network with least effort. In each step, the agent selects a node $u$ in $G'$ to probe. After…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Tri P. Nguyen , Hung T. Nguyen , Thang N. Dinh

Network interdiction problems are combinatorial optimization problems involving two players: one aims to solve an optimization problem on a network, while the other seeks to modify the network to thwart the first player's objectives. Such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lei Zhang , Zhiqian Chen , Chang-Tien Lu , Liang Zhao

Despite the considerable success enjoyed by machine learning techniques in practice, numerous studies demonstrated that many approaches are vulnerable to attacks. An important class of such attacks involves adversaries changing features at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Liang Tong , Sixie Yu , Scott Alfeld , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

In this paper, we study robust distributed sub-optimal coordination of linear agents subject to input nonlinearities. Inspired by the robust agreement literature, we formulate a bounded distributed sub-optimal coordination problem, in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Takumi Namba

In this paper we study mobile ad hoc wireless networks using the notion of evolving connectivity graphs. In such systems, the connectivity changes over time due to the intermittent contacts of mobile terminals. In particular, we are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Lorenzo Maggi , Francesco De Pellegrini

This paper considers the resilient multi-dimensional consensus problem in networked systems, where some of the agents might be malicious (or faulty). We propose a multi-dimensional consensus algorithm, where at each time step each healthy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Jiaqi Yan , Yilin Mo , Xiuxian Li , Changyun Wen

We consider the problem of steering a multi-agent system to multi-consensus, namely a regime where groups of agents agree on a given value which may be different from group to group. We first address the problem by using distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Mattia Frasca

We consider the problem of implementing distributed protocols, despite adversarial channel errors, on synchronous-messaging networks with arbitrary topology. In our first result we show that any $n$-party $T$-round protocol on an undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-30 William M. Hoza , Leonard J. Schulman

A key challenge in multi-robot and multi-agent systems is generating solutions that are robust to other self-interested or even adversarial parties who actively try to prevent the agents from achieving their goals. The practicality of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Trong Nghia Hoang , Yuchen Xiao , Kavinayan Sivakumar , Christopher Amato , Jonathan How

We introduce a model for mobile, multi-agent information transfer that increases the communication covertness through a protocol which also increases the information transfer delay. Covertness is achieved in the presence of a warden who has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Pei Peng , Nikolas Melissaris , Emina Soljanin , Bill Lee , Huafeng Fan , Anton Maliev

In this paper we explore the problem of achieving efficient packet transmission over unreliable links with worst case occurrence of errors. In such a setup, even an omniscient offline scheduling strategy cannot achieve stability of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Antonio Fernández Anta , Chryssis Georgiou , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Joerg Widmer , Elli Zavou

As network traffic monitoring software for cybersecurity, malware detection, and other critical tasks becomes increasingly automated, the rate of alerts and supporting data gathered, as well as the complexity of the underlying model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Kartik Talamadupula , Octavian Udrea , Anton Riabov , Anand Ranganathan

We consider the problem of sending a message from a sender $s$ to a receiver $r$ through an unreliable network by specifying in a protocol what each vertex is supposed to do if it receives the message from one of its neighbors. A protocol…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-19 André Kündgen , Janina Patno

Despite incredible advances, deep learning has been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Numerous approaches have been proposed to train robust networks both empirically and certifiably. However, most of them defend against only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yimu Wang , Dinghuai Zhang , Yihan Wu , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang