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In this paper, we consider the problem of privacy preservation in the average consensus problem when communication among nodes is quantized. More specifically, we consider a setting where some nodes in the network are curious but not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Apostolos I. Rikos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

This paper proposes a privacy protocol for distributed average consensus algorithms on bounded real-valued inputs that guarantees statistical privacy of honest agents' inputs against colluding (passive adversarial) agents, if the set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

Differential privacy is a formal mathematical {stand-ard} for quantifying the degree of that individual privacy in a statistical database is preserved. To guarantee differential privacy, a typical method is adding random noise to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jianping He , Lin Cai

Consensus and leader election are fundamental problems in distributed systems. Consensus is the problem in which all processes in a distributed computation must agree on some value. Average consensus is a popular form of consensus, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Luke Sperling , Sandeep S Kulkarni

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving private and resilient average consensus among a group of discrete-time networked agents without compromising accuracy. State-of-the-art solutions to attain privacy and resilient consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Guilherme Ramos , Daniel Silvestre , André M. H. Teixeira , Sérgio Pequito

This paper develops a feedback-based method to preserve the topology privacy of consensus protocols in network systems. The key idea is to intentionally violate topology identifiability conditions, thereby preventing unique or accurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Yushan Li , Jiabao He , Julien M. Hendrickx , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Privacy-preserving data aggregation in ad hoc networks is a challenging problem, considering the distributed communication and control requirement, dynamic network topology, unreliable communication links, etc. Different from the widely…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Peng Cheng , Jianping Pan , Ling Shi

This paper introduces a novel continuous-time dynamic average consensus algorithm for networks whose interaction is described by a strongly connected and weight-balanced directed graph. The proposed distributed algorithm allows agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

This paper studies the average consensus problem with differential privacy of initial states, for which it is widely recognized that there is a trade-off between the mean-square computation accuracy and privacy level. Considering the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Lei Wang , Weijia Liu , Fanghong Guo , Zixin Qiao , Zhengguang Wu

We propose a protocol based on mechanism design theory and encrypted control to solve average consensus problems among rational and strategic agents while preserving their privacy. The proposed protocol provides a mechanism that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Kaoru Teranishi , Kiminao Kogiso , Takashi Tanaka

Due to the wide application of average consensus algorithm, its security and privacy problems have attracted great attention. In this paper, we consider the system threatened by a set of unknown agents that are both "malicious" and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Shuai Sun , Yilin Mo

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

This paper investigates the differentially private bipartite consensus algorithm over signed networks. The proposed algorithm protects each agent's sensitive information by adding noise with time-varying variances to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jimin Wang , Jieming Ke , Ji-Feng Zhang

A privacy-preserving dynamic average consensus (DAC) algorithm is proposed that achieves consensus while preventing external eavesdroppers from inferring the reference signals and their derivatives. During the initialization phase, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Mihitha Maithripala , Chenyang Qiu , Zongli Lin

Networked system often relies on distributed algorithms to achieve a global computation goal with iterative local information exchanges between neighbor nodes. To preserve data privacy, a node may add a random noise to its original data for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Xinping Guan

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

In the first part of the paper, we have studied the computational privacy risks in distributed computing protocols against local or global dynamics eavesdroppers, and proposed a Privacy-Preserving-Summation-Consistent (PPSC) mechanism as a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yang Liu , Junfeng Wu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

In this paper, we consider the privacy preservation problem in both discrete- and continuous-time average consensus algorithms with strongly connected and balanced graphs, against either internal honest-but-curious agents or external…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Yi Xiong , Zhongkui Li

In this paper we propose a novel method for achieving average consensus in a continuous-time multiagent network while avoiding to disclose the initial states of the individual agents. In order to achieve privacy protection of the state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Claudio Altafini

In this paper we consider the problem of privacy preservation in the static average consensus problem. This problem normally is solved by proposing privacy preservation augmentations for the popular first order Laplacian-based algorithm.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Amir-Salar Esteki , Solmaz S. Kia