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We study gossip algorithms for the fundamental rumor spreading problem, where the goal is to disseminate a rumor from a given source node to all nodes in an arbitrary (and unknown) graph. Gossip algorithms allow each node to call only one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fabien Dufoulon , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

We study timely status updates of a real-time system in an adversarial setting. The system samples a physical process, and sends the samples from the source (e.g., a sensor) to the destination (e.g, a control center) through a channel. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yuanzhang Xiao , Yin Sun

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

We consider a slotted communication system consisting of a source, a cache, a user and a timestomping adversary. The time horizon consists of total $T$ time slots, such that the source transmits update packets to the user directly over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Subhankar Banerjee , Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

We introduce models of gossip based communication networks in which each node is simultaneously a sensor, a relay and a user of information. We model the status of ages of information between nodes as a discrete time Markov chain. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Jori Selen , Yoni Nazarathy , Lachlan L. H. Andrew , Hai L. Vu

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

This paper presents gossip algorithms for aggregation tasks that demonstrate both robustness to adversarial corruptions of any order of magnitude and optimality across a substantial range of these corruption levels. Gossip algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bernhard Haeupler , Marc Kaufmann , Raghu Raman Ravi , Ulysse Schaller

We study the problem of gossip in dynamic networks controlled by an adversary that can modify the network arbitrarily from one round to another, provided that the network is always connected. In the gossip problem, $n$ tokens are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 John Augustine , Chen Avin , Mehraneh Liaee , Gopal Pandurangan , Rajmohan Rajaraman

This paper proposes and investigates a framework for clique gossip protocols. As complete subnetworks, the existence of cliques is ubiquitous in various social, computer, and engineering networks. By clique gossiping, nodes interact with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yang Liu , Bo Li , Brian Anderson , Guodong Shi

This paper describes and analyzes a hierarchical gossip algorithm for solving the distributed average consensus problem in wireless sensor networks. The network is recursively partitioned into subnetworks. Initially, nodes at the finest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Michael G. Rabbat

We study the optimal transmission and scheduling policy for a transmitter (source) communicating with two gossiping receivers aiming at tracking the source's status over time using the age of information (AoI) metric. Gossiping enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Irtiza Hasan , Ahmed Arafa

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

We study the fundamental problem of information spreading (also known as gossip) in dynamic networks. In gossip, or more generally, $k$-gossip, there are $k$ pieces of information (or tokens) that are initially present in some nodes and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-05 Chinmoy Dutta , Gopal Pandurangan , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Zhifeng Sun

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

The timing channel is a logical communication channel in which information is encoded in the timing between events. Recently, the use of the timing channel has been proposed as a countermeasure to reactive jamming attacks performed by an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Salvatore D'Oro , Laura Galluccio , Giacomo Morabito , Sergio Palazzo , Lin Chen , Fabio Martignon

Given $n$ randomly located source-destination (S-D) pairs on a fixed area network that want to communicate with each other, we study the age of information with a particular focus on its scaling as the network size $n$ grows. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Baturalp Buyukates , Alkan Soysal , Sennur Ulukus

This paper studies reliability of probabilistic neighbor-aware gossip algorithms over three well- known large-scale random topologies, namely Bernoulli (or Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi) graph, the random geometric graph, and the scale-free graph. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ruijing Hu , Leander Jehl

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

In this paper, we study an asynchronous randomized gossip algorithm under unreliable communication. At each instance, two nodes are selected to meet with a given probability. When nodes meet, two unreliable communication links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Guodong Shi , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

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