Preciado, Victor M

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    Optimal Resource Allocation for Network Protection Against Spreading Processes
    (2013-11-01) Preciado, Victor M; Zargham, Michael; Enyioha, Chinwendu; Jadbabaie, Ali; Pappas, George
    We study the problem of containing spreading processes in arbitrary directed networks by distributing protection resources throughout the nodes of the network. We consider two types of protection resources are available: (i) Preventive resources able to defend nodes against the spreading (such as vaccines in a viral infection process), and (ii) corrective resources able to neutralize the spreading after it has reached a node (such as antidotes). We assume that both preventive and corrective resources have an associated cost and study the problem of finding the cost-optimal distribution of resources throughout the nodes of the network. We analyze these questions in the context of viral spreading processes in directed networks. We study the following two problems: (i) Given a fixed budget, find the optimal allocation of preventive and corrective resources in the network to achieve the highest level of containment, and (ii) when a budget is not specified, find the minimum budget required to control the spreading process. We show that both resource allocation problems can be solved in polynomial time using Geometric Programming (GP) for arbitrary directed graphs of nonidentical nodes and a wide class of cost functions. Furthermore, our approach allows to optimize simultaneously over both preventive and corrective resources, even in the case of cost functions being node-dependent. We illustrate our approach by designing optimal protection strategies to contain an epidemic outbreak that propagates through an air transportation network.
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    Variance Analysis of Randomized Consensus in Switching Directed Networks
    (2010-06-01) Preciado, Victor M; Jadbabaie, Ali; Tahbaz-Salehi, Alireza
    In this paper, we study the asymptotic properties of distributed consensus algorithms over switching directed random networks. More specifically, we focus on consensus algorithms over independent and identically distributed, directed Erdõs-Rényi random graphs, where each agent can communicate with any other agent with some exogenously specified probability p. While it is well-known that consensus algorithms over Erdõs-Rényi random networks result in an asymptotic agreement over the network, an analytical characterization of the distribution of the asymptotic consensus value remains an open question. In this paper, we provide closed-form expressions for the mean and variance of the asymptotic random consensus value, in terms of the size of the network and the probability of communication p. We also provide numerical simulations that illustrate our results.