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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

Motivated by the large expansion in the study of social networks, this paper deals with the problem of multiple messages spreading over the same network using gossip algorithms. Given two messages distributed over some nodes of the graph,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Amine Semma , Ismail Elouafiq

Randomized rumor spreading processes diffuse information on an undirected graph and have been widely studied. In this work, we present a generic framework for analyzing a broad class of such processes on regular graphs. Our analysis is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Charlotte Out , Nicolás Rivera , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester

We consider gossiping in a fully-connected wireless network consisting of $n$ nodes. The network receives Poisson updates from a source, which generates new information. The nodes gossip their available information with the neighboring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Purbesh Mitra , Sennur Ulukus

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

We introduce a simple time-triggered protocol to achieve communication-efficient non-Bayesian learning over a network. Specifically, we consider a scenario where a group of agents interact over a graph with the aim of discerning the true…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Shreyas Sundaram

Gossip protocols are widely used to disseminate information in massive peer-to-peer networks. These protocols are often claimed to guarantee privacy because of the uncertainty they introduce on the node that started the dissemination. But…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Hadrien Hendrikx

In this paper, we formulate and investigate a generalized consensus algorithm which makes an attempt to unify distributed averaging and maximizing algorithms considered in the literature. Each node iteratively updates its state as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson

In this paper, we provide a theoretical analysis for nonlinear discontinuous consensus protocols in networks of multiagents over weighted directed graphs. By integrating the analytic tools from nonsmooth stability analysis and graph theory,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Liu Bo , Lu Wenlian , Chen Tianping

In this work we present novel provably accelerated gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem. The proposed protocols are inspired from the recently developed accelerated variants of the randomized Kaczmarz method - a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Nicolas Loizou , Michael Rabbat , Peter Richtárik

We study the randomized rumor spreading algorithm \emph{pull} on complete graphs with $n$ vertices. Starting with one informed vertex and proceeding in rounds, each vertex yet uninformed connects to a neighbor chosen uniformly at random and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Simon Reisser

Gossip algorithms are attractive for in-network processing in sensor networks because they do not require any specialized routing, there is no bottleneck or single point of failure, and they are robust to unreliable wireless network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura , Michael G. Rabbat , Anna Scaglione

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

For a rumour spreading protocol, the spread time is defined as the first time that everyone learns the rumour. We compare the synchronous push&pull rumour spreading protocol with its asynchronous variant, and show that for any $n$-vertex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Omer Angel , Abbas Mehrabian , Yuval Peres

We study time-dependent dynamics on a network of order lattices, where structure-preserving lattice maps are used to fuse lattice-valued data over vertices and edges. The principal contribution is a novel asynchronous Laplacian,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hans Riess , Robert Ghrist

A distributed average consensus algorithm in which every sensor transmits with bounded peak power is proposed. In the presence of communication noise, it is shown that the nodes reach consensus asymptotically to a finite random variable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh Banavar , Andreas Spanias

Gossip algorithms for aggregation have recently received significant attention for sensor network applications because of their simplicity and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, gossip algorithms can waste significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Anand D. Sarwate , Martin J. Wainwright

Detecting the source of a gossip is a critical issue, related to identifying patient zero in an epidemic, or the origin of a rumor in a social network. Although it is widely acknowledged that random and local gossip communications make…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Anastasiia Kucherenko , Rafael Pinot , Sasha Voitovych

Consider a network of agents connected by communication links, where each agent holds a real value. The gossip problem consists in estimating the average of the values diffused in the network in a distributed manner. We develop a method…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Raphaël Berthier , Francis Bach , Pierre Gaillard

We study the asymptotic properties of distributed consensus algorithms over switching directed random networks. More specifically, we focus on consensus algorithms over independent and identically distributed, directed random graphs, where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Victor M. Preciado , Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi , Ali Jadbabaie