Local Interference Can Accelerate Gossip Algorithms.

Autor: Nazer, Bobak, Dimakis, Alexandros G., Gastpar, Michael
Zdroj: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing; Aug2011, Vol. 5 Issue 4, p876-887, 12p
Abstrakt: In this paper, we show how interference can be exploited to perform gossip computations for average-based consensus over a larger local neighborhood, rather than only pairs of nodes. We use a new channel coding technique called computation coding to compute sums reliably over the wireless medium. Since many nodes can simultaneously average in a single round, our neighborhood gossip algorithm converges faster than the standard nearest neighbor gossip algorithm. For a network with n nodes and size m neighborhoods, neighborhood gossip requires O(n^2/m^2) rounds while standard gossip requires \Theta(n^2) rounds. Furthermore, we show that if the power path loss coefficient is less than 4, the total transmit energy employed by neighborhood gossip is polynomially smaller than that employed by standard gossip. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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