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This paper studies the problem of remote state estimation in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. A sensor measures a linear plant's state and transmits it to an authorized user over a packet-dropping channel, which is susceptible to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Anastasios Tsiamis , Konstantinos Gatsis , George Pappas

In industrial applications, the presence of moving machinery, vehicles, and personnel, contributes to the dynamic nature of the wireless channel. This time variability induces channel fading, which can be effectively modeled using a Markov…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Jie Huang , Fanlin Jia , Xiao He

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

The increasing availability of online and mobile information platforms is facilitating the development of peer-to-peer collaboration strategies in large-scale networks. These technologies are being leveraged by networked robotic systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Amanda Prorok , Vijay Kumar

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

We present a framework for designing distorting mechanisms that allow remotely operating anomaly detectors while preserving privacy. We consider the problem setting in which a remote station seeks to identify anomalies using system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

In this article, we investigate the distributed privacy preserving weighted consensus control problem for linear continuous-time multi-agent systems under the event-triggering communication mode. A novel event-triggered privacy preserving…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Limei Liang , Ruiqi Ding , Shuai Liu

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

This paper presents a privacy-preserving event detection scheme based on measurements made by a network of sensors. A diameter-like decision statistic made up of the marginal types of the measurements observed by the sensors is employed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaoshan Wang , Tan F. Wong

Data collecting agents in large networks, such as the electric power system, need to share information (measurements) for estimating the system state in a distributed manner. However, privacy concerns may limit or prevent this exchange…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 E. Veronica Belmega , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

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

This paper considers the problem of privacy-preservation in decentralized optimization, in which $N$ agents cooperatively minimize a global objective function that is the sum of $N$ local objective functions. We assume that each local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Chunlei Zhang , Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

This paper considers the problem of dynamic average consensus algorithm design for a group of communicating agents. This problem consists of designing a distributed algorithm that enables a group of agents with communication and computation…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Solmaz S. Kia , Bryan Van Scoy , Jorge Cortes , Randy A. Freeman , Kevin M. Lynch , Sonia Martinez

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 presents the formulation of fault detection and accommodation schemes for a network of autonomous agents running internal model-based dynamic average consensus algorithms. We focus on two types of consensus algorithms, one that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Jemin George , Matthew L. Elwin , Randy A. Freeman , Kevin M. Lynch

Networked systems are increasingly the target of cyberattacks that exploit vulnerabilities within digital communications, embedded hardware, and software. Arguably, the simplest class of attacks -- and often the first type before launching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Xinhao Yan , Guanzhong Zhou , Daniel E. Quevedo , Carlos Murguia , Bo Chen , Hailong Huang

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

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

A decomposition-based coverage control scheme is proposed for multi-agent, persistent surveillance missions operating in a communication-constrained, dynamic environment. The proposed approach decouples high-level task assignment from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Sean J. Wang , Amit Surana , Francesco Bullo

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