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Mutual information reconciliation in non-fully connected heterogeneous multicomputer computational systems

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For non-fully connected heterogeneous computational systems, we introduce a modified digraph model and determine sufficient conditions under which mutual information reconciliation can be achieved. We show a method of designing mutual information reconciliation algorithms for such systems.

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Asharina, A.V. Lobanov, 2010, published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2010, No. 5, pp. 133–146.

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Asharina, I.V., Lobanov, A.V. Mutual information reconciliation in non-fully connected heterogeneous multicomputer computational systems. Autom Remote Control 71, 847–858 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117910050115

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