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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

In multi-agent systems, dynamic average consensus (DAC) is a decentralized estimation strategy in which a set of agents tracks the average of time-varying reference signals. Because DAC requires exchanging state information with neighbors,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Mihitha Maithripala , Zongli Lin

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

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

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

Classical approaches for asymptotic convergence to the global average in a distributed fashion typically assume timely and reliable exchange of information between neighboring components of a given multi-component system. These assumptions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-02-25 Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Themistoklis Charalambous

The existing cryptosystem based approaches for privacy-preserving consensus of networked systems are usually limited to those with undirected topologies. This paper proposes a new privacy-preserving algorithm for networked systems with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Wentuo Fang , Zhiyong Chen , Mohsen Zamani

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

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

Privacy-preserving distributed average consensus has received significant attention recently due to its wide applicability. Based on the achieved performances, existing approaches can be broadly classified into perfect accuracy-prioritized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Milan Lopuhaa-Zwakenberg , Richard Heusdens

This paper aims at secure and privacy preserving consensus algorithms of networked systems. Due to the technical challenges behind decentralized design of such algorithms, the existing results are mainly restricted to a network of systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Wentuo Fang , Mohsen Zamani , Zhiyong Chen

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

A distributed computing protocol consists of three components: (i) Data Localization: a network-wide dataset is decomposed into local datasets separately preserved at a network of nodes; (ii) Node Communication: the nodes hold individual…

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

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

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 study a general framework for broadcast gossip algorithms which use companion variables to solve the average consensus problem. Each node maintains an initial state and a companion variable. Iterative updates are performed asynchronously…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Wu Shaochuan , Michael G. Rabbat

In this paper, we study the problem of consensus-based distributed optimization where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions collaboratively. In existing distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Lidong He , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

In this preliminary paper we study the stability property of a consensus on the average algorithm in arbitrary directed graphs with respect to communication/sensing time-delays. The proposed algorithm adds a storage variable to the agents'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Mehran Zareh , Carla Seatzu , Mauro Franceschelli

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

The consensus problem in distributed computing involves a network of agents aiming to compute the average of their initial vectors through local communication, represented by an undirected graph. This paper focuses on the studying of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov