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Average consensus is key for distributed networks, with applications ranging from network synchronization, distributed information fusion, decentralized control, to load balancing for parallel processors. Existing average consensus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

Average consensus plays a key role in distributed networks, with applications ranging from time synchronization, information fusion, load balancing, to decentralized control. Existing average consensus algorithms require individual agents…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

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

Average consensus is extensively used in distributed networks for computation and control, where all the agents constantly communicate with each other and update their states in order to reach an agreement. Under a general average consensus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Kemi Ding , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

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

Consensus is fundamental for distributed systems since it underpins key functionalities of such systems ranging from distributed information fusion, decision-making, to decentralized control. In order to reach an agreement, existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Minghao Ruan , Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

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 is fundamental for distributed systems since it underpins key functionalities of such systems ranging from distributed information fusion, decision-making, to decentralized control. In order to reach an agreement, existing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Minghao Ruan , Muaz Ahmad , Yongqiang Wang

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 average consensus aims to guarantee the privacy of initial states and asymptotic consensus on the exact average of the initial value. In existing work, it is achieved by adding and subtracting variance decaying and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Xinping Guan

Average consensus underpins key functionalities of distributed systems ranging from distributed information fusion, decision-making, distributed optimization, to load balancing and decentralized control. Existing distributed average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Yongqiang Wang

In this paper we propose a novel method for achieving average consensus in a continuous-time multiagent network while avoiding to disclose the initial states of the individual agents. In order to achieve privacy protection of the state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Claudio Altafini

In multi-agent systems, dynamic average consensus (DAC) is a decentralized estimation strategy in which a set of agents tracks the average of time-varying reference signals. Because DAC requires exchanging state information with neighbors,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Mihitha Maithripala , Zongli Lin

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

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

In this work, inspired by secret sharing schemes, we introduce a privacy-preserving approach for network consensus, by which all nodes in a network can reach an agreement on their states without exposing the individual state to neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Silun Zhang , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Munther Dahleh

Dynamic average consensus is a decentralized control/estimation framework where a group of agents cooperatively track the average of local time-varying reference signals. In this paper, we develop a novel state decomposition-based privacy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Yongqiang Wang , Ali Louati , Jian Chen

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving private and resilient average consensus among a group of discrete-time networked agents without compromising accuracy. State-of-the-art solutions to attain privacy and resilient consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Guilherme Ramos , Daniel Silvestre , André M. H. Teixeira , Sérgio Pequito

In this work, we focus on solving a decentralized consensus problem in a private manner. Specifically, we consider a setting in which a group of nodes, connected through a network, aim at computing the mean of their local values without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohammad Fereydounian , Aryan Mokhtari , Ramtin Pedarsani , Hamed Hassani

In this paper we consider the problem of privacy preservation in the static average consensus problem. This problem normally is solved by proposing privacy preservation augmentations for the popular first order Laplacian-based algorithm.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Amir-Salar Esteki , Solmaz S. Kia
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