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In distributed networks, calculating the maximum element is a fundamental task in data analysis, known as the distributed maximum consensus problem. However, the sensitive nature of the data involved makes privacy protection essential.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wenrui Yu , Richard Heusdens , Jun Pang , Qiongxiu Li

In this work we present a randomized gossip algorithm for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration complexity bounds for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

This paper introduces a novel continuous-time dynamic average consensus algorithm for networks whose interaction is described by a strongly connected and weight-balanced directed graph. The proposed distributed algorithm allows agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

Average consensus protocols emerge with a central role in distributed systems and decision-making such as distributed information fusion, distributed optimization, distributed estimation, and control. A key advantage of these protocols is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Guilherme Ramos , A. Pedro Aguiar , Soummya Kar , Sérgio Pequito

We present a distributed average consensus protocol that preserves the privacy of agents' inputs. Unlike the differential privacy mechanisms, the presented protocol does not affect the accuracy of the output. It is shown that the protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

This paper focuses on discrete-time wireless sensor networks with privacy-preservation. In practical applications, information exchange between sensors is subject to attacks. For the information leakage caused by the attack during the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Xuefeng Yang , Li Liu , Wenju Zhou , Jing Shi , Yinggang Zhang , Xin Hu , Huiyu Zhou

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

In this paper, we present a multidimensional, highly effective method for aggregating data for wireless sensor networks while maintaining privacy. The suggested system is resistant to data loss and secure against both active and passive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ayush Rastogi , Harsh Rastogi , Yash Rastogi , Divyansh Dubey

A privacy-preserving dynamic average consensus (DAC) algorithm is proposed that achieves consensus while preventing external eavesdroppers from inferring the reference signals and their derivatives. During the initialization phase, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Mihitha Maithripala , Chenyang Qiu , Zongli Lin

This paper aims at secure and privacy preserving consensus algorithms of networked systems. Due to the technical challenges behind decentralized design of such algorithms, the existing results are mainly restricted to a network of systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Wentuo Fang , Mohsen Zamani , Zhiyong Chen

In this paper, we consider the privacy preservation problem in both discrete- and continuous-time average consensus algorithms with strongly connected and balanced graphs, against either internal honest-but-curious agents or external…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Yi Xiong , Zhongkui Li

Privacy-preserving data aggregation in ad hoc networks is a challenging problem, considering the distributed communication and control requirement, dynamic network topology, unreliable communication links, etc. Different from the widely…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Peng Cheng , Jianping Pan , Ling Shi

This paper focuses on the privacy-preserving distributed estimation problem with a limited data rate, where the observations are the sensitive information. Specifically, a binary-valued quantizer-based privacy-preserving distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Jieming Ke , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

This paper proposes a privacy-preserving algorithm to solve the average consensus problem based on Shamir's secret sharing scheme, in which a network of agents reach an agreement on their states without exposing their individual state until…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Silun Zhang , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Munther Dahleh

In this work we present three different randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

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

We propose a new dynamic average consensus algorithm that is robust to information-sharing noise arising from differential-privacy design. Not only is dynamic average consensus widely used in cooperative control and distributed tracking, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yongqiang Wang

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

Collaborative inference among multiple wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for sensing and computer vision. This approach typically involves a three-stage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Data analytics (such as association rule mining and decision tree mining) can discover useful statistical knowledge from a big data set. But protecting the privacy of the data provider and the data user in the process of analytics is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Shenggang Ying , Mingsheng Ying , Yuan Feng