Convergence rates of distributed average consensus with stochastic link failures

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 880-892

  Patterson, Stacy ^a   Bamieh, Bassam ^a   El Abbadi, Amr ^a  

^a Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Gossip protocols; Multiplicative noise; Packet loss; Randomized consensus

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; COMMUNICATION LINKS; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; CONVERGENCE RATES; DISTRIBUTED AVERAGE CONSENSUS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; GOSSIP PROTOCOLS; IN-NETWORK; LARGE NETWORKS; LINK FAILURES; LINK-FAILURE PROBABILITIES; MODEL LINKS; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; NETWORK MODELS; RANDOM INPUT; RECURSION EQUATIONS; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC NETWORKS;

LINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PACKET LOSS; PHASE NOISE; PROBABILITY; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77950806763     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2041998     Document Type: Article

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