Linear high-order distributed average consensus algorithm in wireless sensor networks

This paper presents a linear high-order distributed average consensus (DAC) algorithmfor wireless sensor networks. The average consensus property and convergence rate of the highorder DAC algorithm are analyzed. In particular, the convergence rate is determined by the spectral radius of a network topology dependent matrix. Numerical results indicate that this simple linear high-order DAC algorithm can accelerate the convergence without additional communication overhead and reconfiguration of network topology.