Exploiting the Superposition Property of Wireless Communication for Max-Consensus Problems in Multi-Agent Systems

2018/05/17 by Molinari, Fabio, Stańczak, Sławomir, Raisch, Jörg
#FOS: Electrical engineering #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1805.06724

Abstract

This paper presents a consensus protocol that achieves max-consensus in multi-agent systems over wireless channels. Interference, a feature of the wireless channel, is exploited: each agent receives a superposition of broadcast data, rather than individual values. With this information, the system endowed with the proposed consensus protocol reaches max-consensus in a finite number of steps. A comparison with traditional approaches shows that the proposed consensus protocol achieves a faster convergence.

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