Performance metrics in the average consensus problem: A tutorial

Annual Reviews in Control

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-41

  Lovisari, E ^a   Zampieri, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cayley graphs; Distributed estimation; Geometric graphs; Graph theory; Linear consensus; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; CAYLEY GRAPHS; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; GEOMETRIC GRAPHS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; LINEAR CONSENSUS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 84860535104     PISSN: 13675788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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