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Multiagent systems consist of agents that locally exchange information through a physical network subject to a graph topology. Current control methods for networked multiagent systems assume the knowledge of graph topologies in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Tansel Yucelen , John Daniel Peterson , Kevin L. Moore

In this empirical paper, we investigate how learning agents can be arranged in more efficient communication topologies for improved learning. This is an important problem because a common technique to improve speed and robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Dhaval Adjodah , Dan Calacci , Abhimanyu Dubey , Peter Krafft , Esteban Moro , Alex `Sandy' Pentland

In this paper we study the resilience of peer-to-peer networks to preferential attacks. We define a network model and experiment with three di erent simple repairing algorithms, out of which the so called 2nd neighbor rewiring algorithm is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabor Csardi , Maxwell Young , Jennifer Sager , Peter Haga

We investigate the vulnerabilities of consensus-based distributed optimization protocols to nodes that deviate from the prescribed update rule (e.g., due to failures or adversarial attacks). We first characterize certain fundamental…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Shreyas Sundaram , Bahman Gharesifard

We consider network design problems in which we are given a graph and seek a min-size $2$-connected subgraph that satisfies a prescribed property. $\bullet$ In the 1-Connectivity Augmentation problem the goal is to augment a connected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zeev Nutov

Distributed peer-to-peer systems are widely popular due to their decentralized nature, which ensures that no peer is critical for the functionality of the system. However, fully decentralized solutions are usually much harder to design, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Vijeth Aradhya , Christian Scheideler

Node-connectivity augmentation is a fundamental network design problem. We are given a $k$-node connected graph $G$ together with an additional set of links, and the goal is to add a cheap subset of links to $G$ to make it $(k+1)$-node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Waldo Galvez , Dylan Hyatt-Denesik , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Laura Sanita

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran

Graph-based environments pose unique challenges to multi-agent reinforcement learning. In decentralized approaches, agents operate within a given graph and make decisions based on partial or outdated observations. The size of the observed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jannis Weil , Zhenghua Bao , Osama Abboud , Tobias Meuser

In this paper, we study the connectivity in one-dimensional ad hoc wireless networks with an fixed access point. In recent years, various closed expressions for the probability of connectivity on one-dimensional networks (interval graphs)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-03-02 Junshan Li

We study the problem of multi-agent online graph exploration, in which a team of k agents has to explore a given graph, starting and ending on the same node. The graph is initially unknown. Whenever a node is visited by an agent, its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Erik van den Akker , Kevin Buchin , Klaus-Tycho Foerster

Packet routing is a fundamental problem in communication networks that decides how the packets are directed from their source nodes to their destination nodes through some intermediate nodes. With the increasing complexity of network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Xuan Mai , Quanzhi Fu , Yi Chen

Virtual topologies in peer-to-peer networks can reduce the traffic consumed by altering the logical connectivity of peers without altering the underlying network. However, such sparsely connected virtual topologies do not focus on the needs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Purboday Ghosh , Shashank Shekhar , Yashen Lin , Ulrich Muenz , Gabor Karsai

Large language models (LLMs) have empowered nodes within multi-agent networks with intelligence, showing growing applications in both academia and industry. However, how to prevent these networks from generating malicious information…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Miao Yu , Shilong Wang , Guibin Zhang , Junyuan Mao , Chenlong Yin , Qijiong Liu , Qingsong Wen , Kun Wang , Yang Wang

Low probability of detection (LPD) has recently emerged as a means to enhance the privacy and security of wireless networks. Unlike existing wireless security techniques, LPD measures aim to conceal the entire existence of wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Sivaram Krishnan , Jihong Park , Subhash Sagar , Gregory Sherman , Benjamin Campbell , Jinho Choi

Communication networks form the backbone of our society. Topology control algorithms optimize the topology of such communication networks. Due to the importance of communication networks, a topology control algorithm should guarantee…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Roland Kluge , Michael Stein , Gergely Varró , Andy Schürr , Matthias Hollick , Max Mühlhäuser

Motivated by applications to graph morphing, we consider the following \emph{compatible connectivity-augmentation problem}: We are given a labelled $n$-vertex planar graph, $\mathcal{G}$, that has $r\ge 2$ connected components, and $k\ge 2$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Greg Aloupis , Luis Barba , Paz Carmi , Vida Dujmović , Fabrizio Frati , Pat Morin

This work considers the distributed computation of the one-to-one vertex correspondences between two undirected and connected graphs, which is called \textit{graph matching}, over multi-agent networks. Given two \textit{isomorphic} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Quoc Van Tran , Zhiyong Sun , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

The wireless ad hoc networks are highly vulnerable to distributed denial of service(DDoS) attacks because of its unique characteristics such as open network architecture, shared wireless medium and stringent resource constraints. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-06-08 S. A. Arunmozhi , Y. Venkataramani

Secure multiparty computation (MPC) on incomplete communication networks has been studied within two primary models: (1) Where a partial network is fixed a priori, and thus corruptions can occur dependent on its structure, and (2) Where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Elette Boyle , Ran Cohen , Deepesh Data , Pavel Hubáček