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Finite Time Privacy Preserving Quantized Average Consensus with Transmission Stopping

Systems and Control 2022-07-19 v1 Systems and Control Optimization and Control

Abstract

Due to their flexibility, battery powered or energy-harvesting wireless networks are employed in diverse applications. Securing data transmissions between wireless devises is of critical importance in order to avoid privacy-sensitive user data leakage. In this paper, we focus on the scenario where some nodes are curious (but not malicious) and try to identify the initial states of one (or multiple) other nodes, while some nodes aim to preserve the privacy of their initial states from the curious nodes. We present a privacy preserving finite transmission event-triggered quantized average consensus algorithm. Its operation is suitable for battery-powered or energy-harvesting wireless network since it guarantees (i) efficient (quantized) communication, and (ii) transmission ceasing (which allows preservation of available energy). Furthermore, we present topological conditions under which the proposed algorithm allows nodes to preserve their privacy. We conclude with a comparison of our algorithm against other algorithms in the existing literature.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08244,
  title  = {Finite Time Privacy Preserving Quantized Average Consensus with Transmission Stopping},
  author = {Apostolos I. Rikos and Christoforos N. Hadjicostis and Karl H. Johansson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08244},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2110.00359, arXiv:2102.06778

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