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We investigate information accuracy in timeliness-based gossip networks where the source evolves according to a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) with $M$ states and disseminates status updates to a network of $n$ nodes. In addition to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Emirhan Tekez , Melih Bastopcu , Sinan Gezici

Peer to peer (P2P) systems are moving from application specific architectures to a generic service oriented design philosophy. This raises interesting problems in connection with providing useful P2P middleware services capable of dealing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-12-27 Antonio Fernandez , Vincent Gramoli , Ernesto Jimenez , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Michel Raynal

This paper investigates the dissemination of multiple pieces of information in large networks where users contact each other in a random uncoordinated manner, and users upload one piece per unit time. The underlying motivation is the design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sujay Sanghavi , Bruce Hajek , Laurent Massoulie

Information dissemination is a fundamental problem in parallel and distributed computing. In its simplest variant, the broadcasting problem, a message has to be spread among all nodes of a graph. A prominent communication protocol for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Robert Elsässer , Dominik Kaaser

Gossip protocols aim at arriving, by means of point-to-point or group communications, at a situation in which all the agents know each other's secrets. We consider distributed gossip protocols which are expressed by means of epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Krzysztof R. Apt , Davide Grossi , Wiebe van der Hoek

Bots, in recent times, have posed a major threat to enterprise networks. With the distributed nature of the way in which botnets operate, the problems faced by enterprises have become acute. A bot is a program that operates as an agent for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Manoj Rameshchandra Thakur

Gossip protocols are programs used in a setting in which each agent holds a secret and the aim is to reach a situation in which all agents know all secrets. Such protocols rely on a point-to-point or group communication. Distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Krzysztof R. Apt , Dominik Wojtczak

A gossip network is considered in which a source node updates its status while other nodes in the network aim at keeping track of it as it varies over time. Information gets disseminated by the source sending status updates to the nodes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Irtiza Hasan , Ahmed Arafa

In gossip networks, a source node forwards time-stamped updates to a network of observers according to a Poisson process. The observers then update each other on this information according to Poisson processes as well. The Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Thomas Jacob Maranzatto , Marcus Michelen

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

A gossip protocol is a procedure for spreading secrets among a group of agents, using a connection graph. The goal is for all agents to get to know all secrets, in which case we call the execution of the protocol successful. We consider…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Hans van Ditmarsch , Jan van Eijck , Pere Pardo , Rahim Ramezanian , François Schwarzentruber

Gossip algorithms for distributed computation are attractive due to their simplicity, distributed nature, and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, using standard gossip algorithms can lead to a significant waste in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Anand D. Sarwate , Martin J. Wainwright

A clustered gossip network is considered in which a source updates its information over time, and end-nodes, organized in clusters through clusterheads, are keeping track of it. The goal for the nodes is to remain as fresh as possible,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Irtiza Hasan , Ahmed Arafa

A gossip process is an iterative process in a multi-agent system where only two neighboring agents communicate at each iteration and update their states. The neighboring condition is by convention described by an undirected graph. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Xudong Chen , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Ji Liu

This paper analyzes the adoption of unstructured P2P overlay networks to build publish-subscribe systems. We consider a very simple distributed communication protocol, based on gossip and on the local knowledge each node has about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Stefano Ferretti

The gossip problem, in which information (known as secrets) must be shared among a certain number of agents using the minimum number of calls, is of interest in the conception of communication networks and protocols. We extend the gossip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Martin C. Cooper , Andreas Herzig , Faustine Maffre , Frédéric Maris , Pierre Régnier

A gossip protocol is a procedure for sharing secrets in a network. The basic action in a gossip protocol is a pairwise message exchange (telephone call) wherein the calling agents exchange all the secrets they know. An agent who knows all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hans van Ditmarsch , Malvin Gattinger , Rahim Ramezanian

While sharing resources the efficiency is substantially degraded as a result of the scarceness of availability of the requested resources in a multiclient support manner. These resources are often aggravated by many factors like the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis , Helen D. Karatza

Many ad hoc routing protocols are based on some variant of flooding. Despite various optimizations, many routing messages are propagated unnecessarily. We propose a gossiping-based approach, where each node forwards a message with some…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zygmunt Haas , Joseph Y. Halpern , Erran L. Li

We provide an in-depth study of the knowledge-theoretic aspects of communication in so-called gossip protocols. Pairs of agents communicate by means of calls in order to spread information---so-called secrets---within the group. Depending…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Krzysztof R. Apt , Davide Grossi , Wiebe van der Hoek