Everything about Asynchronous communication

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Asynchronous communicationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Self-Triggered Min–Max DMPC for Asynchronous Multiagent Systems With Communication DelaysInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: ATMThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Asynchronous Federated Learning Over Wireless Communication NetworksCited 138 times
5. Go sideways: ATM adaptation layerA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Plesiochronous systemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Asynchronous Federated Learning Over Wireless Communication Networks

  Zhongyu Wang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuqing Tian · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 138 citations

• Asynchronous Distributed Optimization With Event-Driven Communication

  Minyi Zhong, Christos G. Cassandras · 2010 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 133 citations

• An Asynchronous Communication Model for Distributed Concurrent Objects

  Einar Broch Johnsen, Olaf Owe · 2006 · Software & Systems Modeling · 127 citations

• Asynchronous Distributed Averaging on Communication Networks

  Mortada Mehyar, Demetri Spanos, John Pongsajapan · 2007 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · 97 citations

• Synchronous, asynchronous, and causally ordered communication

  Bernadette Charron-Bost, Friedemann Mattern, Gerard Tel · 1996 · Distributed Computing · 66 citations

• Decentralized Sequential Hypothesis Testing Using Asynchronous Communication

  Georgios Fellouris, George V. Moustakides · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 59 citations

• Four-slot fully asynchronous communication mechanism

  H.R. Simpson · 1990 · IEE Proceedings E Computers and Digital Techniques · 53 citations

• Asynchronous Communication: Exact Synchronization, Universality, and Dispersion

  Yury Polyanskiy · 2013 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 43 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Self-Triggered Min–Max DMPC for Asynchronous Multiagent Systems With Communication Delays

  Henglai Wei, Kunwu Zhang, Yang Shi · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 49 citations

• Asynchronous Sliding Mode Control Under Round-Robin Protocol-Based Event-Triggered Communication

  Jiahui Wang, Yabin Gao, Zhiguang Feng · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems · 35 citations

• Peer-to-Peer Local Energy Trading With Voltage Management Under Asynchronous Communication

  Md Habib Ullah, Jae-Do Park · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid · 29 citations

• On the Communication Efficiency of Statistically Secure Asynchronous MPC with Optimal Resilience

  Ashish Choudhury, Arpita Patra · 2023 · Journal of Cryptology · 25 citations

• AsyFed: Accelerated Federated Learning With Asynchronous Communication Mechanism

  Zhixin Li, Chunpu Huang, Keke Gai · 2023 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 23 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• ATMUyless Black · 1995
• Convergence technologies for 3G networksJeffrey Bannister · 2004
• ISDN and Broadvand ISDN with Frame Relay and ATMWilliam Stallings · 1995
• ATM Volume IUyless Black · 1995
• 📕MPEG-2 over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) over satellite quality of service (QoS) experimentsWilliam D. Ivancic · 1998
• Broadband packet switching technologiesH. Jonathan Chao, Cheuk H. Lam · 2001
• ATM networksDemetres D. Kouvatsos · 1996
• Data Communications Networking (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking)Behrouz A. Forouzan · 2006

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