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Achieving average consensus without disclosing sensitive information can be a critical concern for multi-agent coordination. This paper examines privacy-preserving average consensus (PPAC) for vector-valued multi-agent networks. In…
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…
In this paper, we study the relationship between resilience and accuracy in the resilient distributed multi-dimensional consensus problem. We consider a network of agents, each of which has a state in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Some agents in the…
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…
In the intricate dance of multi-agent systems, achieving average consensus is not just vital--it is the backbone of their functionality. In conventional average consensus algorithms, all agents reach an agreement by individual calculations…
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,…
This paper presents a novel approach for resilient distributed consensus in multiagent networks when dealing with adversarial agents imprecision in states observed by normal agents. Traditional resilient distributed consensus algorithms…
Several algorithms in prior literature have been proposed which guarantee consensus of normally behaving agents in a network that may contain adversarially behaving agents. These algorithms guarantee that the consensus value lies within the…
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…
This paper studies the multi-agent average consensus problem under the requirement of differential privacy of the agents' initial states against an adversary that has access to all the messages. We first establish that a differentially…
We consider multi-agent systems interacting over directed network topologies where a subset of agents is adversary/faulty and where the non-faulty agents have the goal of reaching consensus, while fulfilling a differential privacy…
In this paper, we study the resilient vector consensus problem in networks with adversarial agents and improve resilience guarantees of existing algorithms. A common approach to achieving resilient vector consensus is that every…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This paper proposes a privacy protocol for distributed average consensus algorithms on bounded real-valued inputs that guarantees statistical privacy of honest agents' inputs against colluding (passive adversarial) agents, if the set of…
The problem of consensus in the presence of adversarially behaving agents has been studied extensively in the literature. The proposed algorithms typically guarantee that the consensus value lies within the convex hull of initial normal…