Publications [#322367] of Robert Calderbank

Journal articles or Book chapters PUBLISHED

1. Nokleby, M; Bajwa, WU; Calderbank, R; Aazhang, B, Toward resource-optimal consensus over the wireless medium, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 7 no. 2 (January, 2013), pp. 284-295 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/17)

   Abstract:
   We carry out a comprehensive study of the resource cost of averaging consensus in wireless networks. Most previous approaches suppose a graphical network, which abstracts away crucial features of the wireless medium, and measure resource consumption only in terms of the total number of transmissions required to achieve consensus. Under a path-loss model, we study the resource requirements of consensus with respect to three wireless- appropriate metrics: total transmit energy, elapsed time, and time-bandwidth product. First, we characterize the performance of several popular gossip algorithms, showing that they may be order-optimal with respect to transmit energy but are strictly suboptimal with respect to elapsed time and time-bandwidth product. Further, we propose a new consensus scheme, termed hierarchical averaging, and show that it is nearly order-optimal with respect to all three metrics. Finally, we examine the effects of quantization, showing that hierarchical averaging provides a nearly orderoptimal tradeoff between resource consumption and quantization error. © 2013 IEEE.