## Local Interference Can Accelerate Gossip Algorithms

In this paper we show how interference can be exploited to perform gossip computations over a larger local neighborhood, rather than only pairs of nodes. We use a recently introduced technique called computation coding to perform reliable computation over noisy multiple access channels. Since many nodes can simultaneously average in a single round, neighborhood gossip clearly converges faster than nearest neighbor gossip. We characterize how many gossip rounds are required for a given neighborhood size. Also, we show that if the size of the collaboration neighborhood is larger than a critical value that depends on the path loss exponent and the network size, interference can yield exponential benefits in the energy required to compute the average.

Published in:
2008 46Th Annual Allerton Conference On Communication, Control, And Computing, Vols 1-3, 591-598
Presented at:
46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep, 2008
Year:
2008
Publisher:
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ISBN:
978-1-4244-2925-7
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