Ultrafast consensus in small-world networks

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2371-2378

  Olfati Saber, Reza ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic connectivity; Consensus algorithms; Graph Laplacians; Network robustness; Networked systems; Phase transition; Random matrices; Small world networks

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC CONNECTIVITY; CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; GRAPH LAPLACIANS; INFORMATION NETWORKS; NETWORK ROBUSTNESS; NETWORKED SYSTEMS; PERCOLATION THEORY; RANDOM MATRICES; SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS;

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 23944482529     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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