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We consider the average-consensus problem in a multi-node network of finite size. Communication between nodes is modeled by a sequence of directed signals with arbitrary communication delays. Four distributed algorithms that achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-23 Kevin Topley , Vikram Krishnamurthy

This paper studies the multi-agent average consensus problem under the requirement of differential privacy of the agents' initial states against an adversary that has access to all the messages. We first establish that a differentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Erfan Nozari , Pavankumar Tallapragada , Jorge Cortés

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

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

Distributed median consensus has emerged as a critical paradigm in multi-agent systems due to the inherent robustness of the median against outliers and anomalies in measurement. Despite the sensitivity of the data involved, the development…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Sokol Kosta

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

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

Due to their flexibility, battery powered or energy-harvesting wireless networks are employed in diverse applications. Securing data transmissions between wireless devises is of critical importance in order to avoid privacy-sensitive user…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we study a distributed privacy-preserving learning problem in social networks with general topology. The agents can communicate with each other over the network, which may result in privacy disclosure, since the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Youming Tao , Shuzhen Chen , Feng Li , Dongxiao Yu , Jiguo Yu , Hao Sheng

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

As the modern world becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, distributed signal processing has proven to be effective in processing its large volume of data. However, a main challenge limiting the broad use of distributed signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

When networked systems of autonomous agents carry out complex tasks, the control and coordination sought after generally depend on a few fundamental control primitives. Chief among these primitives is consensus, where agents are to converge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Patrick Lambein-Monette

We analyze the convergence of decentralized consensus algorithm with delayed gradient information across the network. The nodes in the network privately hold parts of the objective function and collaboratively solve for the consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Benjamin Sirb , Xiaojing Ye

Privacy-preserving state estimation for linear time-invariant dynamical systems with crowd sensors is considered. At any time step, the estimator has access to measurements from a randomly selected sensor from a pool of sensors with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Farhad Farokhi

Imagine a group of citizens willing to collectively contribute their personal data for the common good to produce socially useful information, resulting from data analytics or machine learning computations. Sharing raw personal data with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Riad Ladjel , Nicolas Anciaux , Aurélien Bellet , Guillaume Scerri

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

As large-scale theft of data from corporate servers is becoming increasingly common, it becomes interesting to examine alternatives to the paradigm of centralizing sensitive data into large databases. Instead, one could use cryptography and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Thomas Leaute , Boi Faltings

The increasing deployment of distributed Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) in modern power grids necessitates effective coordination strategies to ensure state-of-charge (SoC) balancing and accurate power delivery. While distributed…

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

We study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. The goal of distributed average consensus is for the nodes, each associated with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

The ability to share social network data at the level of individual connections is beneficial to science: not only for reproducing results, but also for researchers who may wish to use it for purposes not foreseen by the data releaser.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Daniele Romanini , Sune Lehmann , Mikko Kivelä