Randomized consensus algorithms over large scale networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 634-649

  Fagnani, Fabio ^a   Zampieri, Sandro ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concentration of performance; Consensus algorithms; Large scale networks; Mean square analysis; Random algorithms

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; LARGE-SCALE NETWORKS; MEAN SQUARE ANALYSIS; RANDOM ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 43349085369     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2008.080506     Document Type: Article

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