An elegant feature of matrix-weighted networks can be employed for privacy-preserving consensus.
Lulu Pan, Haibin Shao, Yang Lu, Mehran Mesbahi, Dewei Li, Yugeng Xi. Privacy-Preserving Average Consensus via Matrix-weighted Inter-Agent Coupling. Automatica, 2024. To appear
Peng Wang, Haibin Shao, Lulu Pan, Weiwu Yan, Ning Li. Computationally Light Privacy Preservation of Matrix-Weighted Average Consensus. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023.
Lulu Pan, Yang Lu, Haibin Shao, Dewei Li, Yugeng Xi. Secure and Privacy-Preserving Average Consensus for Matrix-weighted Networks, 2022. (working paper)