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Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

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

Semantic communication allows the receiver to know the intention instead of the bit information itself, which is an emerging technique to support real-time human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Yang Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance and received significant research interest. The enormous computational demands, however, hinder the local deployment on devices with limited resources. The current prevalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yujie Gu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoyu Ji , Yier Jin , Wenyuan Xu

In the traditional distributed machine learning scenario, the user's private data is transmitted between clients and a central server, which results in significant potential privacy risks. In order to balance the issues of data privacy and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zihao Zhao , Yuzhu Mao , Yang Liu , Linqi Song , Ye Ouyang , Xinlei Chen , Wenbo Ding

Differentially private wireless federated learning (DPWFL) is a promising framework for protecting sensitive user data. However, foundational questions on how to precisely characterize privacy loss remain open, and existing work is further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chen Yaoling , Liang Hao , Tu Xiaotong

Cooperative decentralized learning relies on direct information exchange between communicating agents, each with access to locally available datasets. The goal is to agree on model parameters that are optimal over all data. However, sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jasmine Bayrooti , Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure channels introduces privacy risks. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Weixuan Chen , Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Dusit Niyato

Consider multiple users and a fusion center. Each user possesses a sequence of bits and can communicate with the fusion center through a one-way public channel. The fusion center's task is to compute the sum of all the sequences under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Remi A. Chou , Joerg Kliewer , Aylin Yener

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava

Self-stabilization is a versatile methodology in the design of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms for transient faults. A self-stabilizing system automatically recovers from any kind and any finite number of transient faults. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hirotsugu Kakugawa , Sayaka Kamei , Masahiro Shibata , Fukuhito Ooshita

Fast rate adaptation has been established as an effective way to improve the PHY-layer raw date rate of wireless networks. However, within the current IEEE 802.11 legacy, MAC-layer throughput is dominated by users with the lowest data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-12-17 Da Rui Chen , Ying Jun , Zhang

Many resource allocation problems can be formulated as an optimization problem whose constraints contain sensitive information about participating users. This paper concerns solving this kind of optimization problem in a distributed manner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Shuo Han , Ufuk Topcu , George J. Pappas

Distributed algorithms enable private Optimal Power Flow (OPF) computations by avoiding the need in sharing sensitive information localized in algorithms sub-problems. However, adversaries can still infer this information from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Vladimir Dvorkin , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Jalal Kazempour , Pierre Pinson

In this paper, we outline a way to deploy a privacy-preserving protocol for multiparty Randomized Controlled Trials on the scale of 500 million rows of data and more than a billion gates. Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are widely used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Mahnush Movahedi , Benjamin M. Case , Andrew Knox , James Honaker , Li Li , Yiming Paul Li , Sanjay Saravanan , Shubho Sengupta , Erik Taubeneck

Communication remains a key factor limiting the applicability of distributed model predictive control (DMPC) in realistic settings, despite advances in wireless communication. DMPC schemes can require an overwhelming amount of information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Torben Schiz , Henrik Ebel

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

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

As the modern world becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, distributed signal processing has proven to be effective in processing its large volume of data. However, a main challenge limiting the broad use of distributed signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

We study the problem of maximizing privacy of data sets by adding random vectors generated via synchronized chaotic oscillators. In particular, we consider the setup where information about data sets, queries, is sent through public…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Farhad Farokhi , Dragan Nesic