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In this paper we present various distributed algorithms for LP-type problems in the well-known gossip model. LP-type problems include many important classes of problems such as (integer) linear programming, geometric problems like smallest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Martijn Struijs

We study a gossip-based algorithm for searching data objects in a multipeer communication network. All of the nodes in the network are able to communicate with each other. There exists an initiator node that starts a round of searches by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Eva Jaho , Ioannis Koukoutsidis , Siyu Tang , Ioannis Stavrakakis , Piet Van Mieghem

Periodic gossip algorithms have generated a lot of interest due to their ability to compute the global statistics by using local pairwise communications among nodes. Simple execution, robustness to topology changes, and distributed nature…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-31 S. Kouachi , Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Y. N. Singh

Machine learning over fully distributed data poses an important problem in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. In this model we have one data record at each network node, but without the possibility to move raw data due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Róbert Ormándi , István Hegedüs , Márk Jelasity

In this paper, we study PUSH-PULL style rumor spreading algorithms in the mobile telephone model, a variant of the classical telephone model in which each node can participate in at most one connection per round; i.e., you can no longer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Mohsen Ghaffari , Calvin Newport

Decentralized learning on resource-constrained edge devices demands algorithms that are communication-efficient, robust to data corruption, and lightweight in memory. State-of-the-art gossip-based methods address communication efficiency,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Anna van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

In this paper we show that gossip algorithms may be effectively used to disseminate game events in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs). Game events are disseminated through an overlay network. The proposed scheme exploits the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti , Moreno Marzolla

Reputation aggregation in peer to peer networks is generally a very time and resource consuming process. Moreover, most of the methods consider that a node will have same reputation with all the nodes in the network, which is not true. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ruchir Gupta , Y. N. Singh

Future applications in environmental monitoring, delivery of services and transportation of goods motivate the study of deployment and partitioning tasks for groups of autonomous mobile agents. These tasks are achieved by recent coverage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-12-28 Francesco Bullo , Ruggero Carli , Paolo Frasca

Gossip protocols are popular methods for average consensus problems in distributed computing. We prove new convergence guarantees for a variety of such protocols, including path, clique, and synchronous pairwise gossip. These arise by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Jamie Haddock , Benjamin Jarman , Chen Yap

As agentic platforms scale, agents are moving beyond fixed roles and predefined toolchains, creating an urgent need for flexible and decentralized coordination. Current structured communication protocols such as direct agent-to-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nafiul I. Khan , Mansura Habiba , Rafflesia Khan

As agentic platforms scale, agents are evolving beyond static roles and fixed toolchains, creating a growing need for flexible, decentralized coordination. Today's structured communication protocols (e.g., direct agent-to-agent messaging)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansura Habiba , Nafiul I. Khan

Broadcasting and gossiping are fundamental communication tasks in networks. In broadcasting,one node of a network has a message that must be learned by all other nodes. In gossiping, every node has a (possibly different) message, and all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Kokouvi Hounkanli , Andrzej Pelc

We study gossip algorithms for the rumor spreading problem which asks one node to deliver a rumor to all nodes in an unknown network. We present the first protocol for any expander graph $G$ with $n$ nodes such that, the protocol informs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Zeyu Guo , He Sun

In this paper we study two related iterative randomized algorithms for distributed computation of averages. The first one is the recently proposed Broadcast Gossip Algorithm, in which at each iteration one randomly selected node broadcasts…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-25 Paolo Frasca , Fabio Fagnani

We focus on the well-studied problem of distributed overlay network construction. We consider a synchronous gossip-based communication model where in each round a node can send a message of small size to another node whose identifier it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Fabien Dufoulon , Michael Moorman , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

This paper focuses on non-asymptotic diffusion time in asynchronous gossip protocols. Asynchronous gossip protocols are designed to perform distributed computation in a network of nodes by randomly exchanging messages on the associated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 David Picard , Jérôme Fellus , Stéphane Garnier

We study three capacity problems in the mobile telephone model, a network abstraction that models the peer-to-peer communication capabilities implemented in most commodity smartphone operating systems. The capacity of a network expresses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Michael Dinitz , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver

Gossip protocols have been proposed as a robust and efficient method for disseminating information throughout large-scale networks. In this paper, we propose a compositional analysis technique to study formal probabilistic models of gossip…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ruggero Lanotte , Massimo Merro , Simone Tini

Gossip algorithms are pivotal in the dissemination of information within decentralized systems. Consequently, numerous gossip libraries have been developed and widely utilized especially in blockchain protocols for the propagation of blocks…