%0 Journal Article %D 2019 %T Statistical Privacy in Distributed Average Consensus on Bounded Real Inputs %A Nirupam Gupta %A Jonathan Katz %A Nikhil Chopra %X

This paper proposes a privacy protocol for distributed average consensus algorithms on bounded real-valued inputs that guarantees statistical privacy of honest agents' inputs against colluding (passive adversarial) agents, if the set of colluding agents is not a vertex cut in the underlying communication network. This implies that privacy of agents' inputs is preserved against t number of arbitrary colluding agents if the connectivity of the communication network is at least (t+1). A similar privacy protocol has been proposed for the case of bounded integral inputs in our previous paper~\cite{gupta2018information}. However, many applications of distributed consensus concerning distributed control or state estimation deal with real-valued inputs. Thus, in this paper we propose an extension of the privacy protocol in~\cite{gupta2018information}, for bounded real-valued agents' inputs, where bounds are known apriori to all the agents. 

%8 03/20/2019 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09315 %0 Journal Article %D 2018 %T Information-Theoretic Privacy For Distributed Average Consensus: Bounded Integral Inputs %A Nirupam Gupta %A Jonathan Katz %A Nikhil Chopra %X

We propose an asynchronous distributed average consensus algorithm that guarantees information-theoretic privacy of honest agents' inputs against colluding passive adversarial agents, as long as the set of colluding passive adversarial agents is not a vertex cut in the underlying communication network. This implies that a network with (t+1)-connectivity guarantees information-theoretic privacy of honest agents' inputs against any t colluding agents. The proposed protocol is formed by composing a distributed privacy mechanism we provide with any (non-private) distributed average consensus algorithm. The agent' inputs are bounded integers, where the bounds are apriori known to all the agents.

%8 03/28/2019 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01794 %0 Journal Article %D 2018 %T Information-Theoretic Privacy in Distributed Average Consensus %A Nirupam Gupta %A Jonathan Katz %A Nikhil Chopra %X

We propose an asynchronous distributed average consensus algorithm that guarantees information-theoretic privacy of honest agents' inputs against colluding semi-honest (passively adversarial) agents, as long as the set of colluding semi-honest agents is not a vertex cut in the underlying communication network. This implies that a network with (t+1)-connectivity guarantees information-theoretic privacy of honest agents' inputs against any t colluding semi-honest agents. The proposed protocol is formed by composing a distributed privacy mechanism we provide with any (non-private) distributed average consensus algorithm. 

%G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01794