Title
Distributedly Solving Boolean Equations over Networks
Abstract
In this paper, we propose distributed algorithms that solve a system of Boolean equations over a network, where each node in the network possesses only one Boolean equation from the system. The Boolean equation assigned at any particular node is a private equation known to this node only, and the nodes aim to compute the exact set of solutions to the system without exchanging their local equations. We show that each private Boolean equation can be locally lifted to a linear algebraic equation under a basis of Boolean vectors, leading to a network linear equation that is distributedly solvable. A number of exact or approximate solutions to the induced linear equation are then computed at each node from different initial values. The solutions to the original Boolean equations are eventually computed locally via a Boolean vector search algorithm. We prove that given solvable Boolean equations, when the initial values of the nodes for the distributed linear equation solving step are i.i.d selected according to a uniform distribution in a high-dimensional cube, our algorithms return the exact solution set of the Boolean equations at each node with high probability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304144
2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Distributed algorithm,Boolean equation
Conference
0743-1546
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-7448-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hongsheng Qi100.34
Bo Li200.34
Rui-Juan Jing300.34
Alexandre Proutiere455840.94
Guodong Shi500.34