• DocumentCode
    3536856
  • Title

    Consensus with ternary messages

  • Author

    Olshevsky, Alex

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Ind. & Enterprise Syst. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    6213
  • Lastpage
    6217
  • Abstract
    We provide a protocol for real-valued average consensus by networks of agents which exchange only a single message from the ternary alphabet {-1, 0, 1} between neighbors at each step. Our protocol works on time-varying undirected graphs subject to a connectivity condition, has a worst-case convergence time which is polynomial in the number of agents and the initial values, and requires no global knowledge about the graph topologies on the part of each node to implement except for knowing an upper bound on the degrees of its neighbors.
  • Keywords
    convergence; graphs; network theory (graphs); polynomials; agents networks; connectivity condition; initial values; neighbor degree upper bound; polynomial time; protocol; real-valued average consensus; ternary alphabet; ternary messages consensus; time-varying undirected graphs; worst-case convergence time; Algorithm design and analysis; Convergence; Protocols; Sensors; Synchronization; Transient analysis; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control (CDC), 2013 IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Firenze
  • ISSN
    0743-1546
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5714-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.2013.6760871
  • Filename
    6760871