Title
An Energy-Efficient Distributed Average Consensus Scheme via Infrequent Communication.
Abstract
Distributed average consensus finds extensive applications in multi-agent systems where a group of agents are required to agree upon a common value. Motivated by the need to conserve energy for large-scale multi-agent systems, we propose an infrequent communication scheme that allows the system to reach average consensus at low energy consumption. The proposed scheme divides the original large network into two smaller sub-networks with some overlapping nodes. Agents in the two sub-networks take turns to broadcast and update their local estimates, until reaching consensus. We prove that the proposed scheme guarantees asymptotic convergence when both subnetworks are connected and have overlapping nodes. Simulations corroborate the energy saving capability of the proposed scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/GlobalSIP.2018.8646657
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Distributed average consensus,multi-agent systems,infrequent communication,energy-efficient
Convergence (routing),Broadcasting,Mathematical optimization,Average consensus,Low energy,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Multi-agent system,Common value auction
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2376-4066
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Xu1185.62
Zhi Tian211514.04
Yue Wang3229.14