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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

We propose an algorithm for average consensus over a directed graph which is both fully asynchronous and robust to unreliable communications. We show its convergence to the average, while allowing for slowly growing but potentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Alex Olshevsky , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Artin Spiridonoff

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

We propose a new decentralized average consensus algorithm with compressed communication that scales linearly with the network size n. We prove that the proposed method converges to the average of the initial values held locally by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

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

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

Achieving average consensus without disclosing sensitive information can be a critical concern for multi-agent coordination. This paper examines privacy-preserving average consensus (PPAC) for vector-valued multi-agent networks. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Yang Lu , Mehran Mesbahi , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi

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 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

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

Distributed consensus protocols provide a mechanism for spreading information within clustered networks, allowing agents and clusters to make decisions without requiring direct access to the state of the ensemble. In this work, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Federico M. Zegers , Sean Phillips

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

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

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

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

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

We study distributed average consensus problems 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 some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

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

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

We consider the problem of privately estimating the mean of vectors distributed across different nodes of an unreliable wireless network, where communications between nodes can fail intermittently. We adopt a semi-decentralized setup,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Rajarshi Saha , Mohamed Seif , Michal Yemini , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor