“…Fortunately, the developed result can be easily extended to this case via replacing by in Theorem 1. On the other hand, different from the dependence of the whole Laplacian matrix in the literatures, 44,45 the desired parameter in our article is implicitly related with the local communication topology, that is, the i th row of the Laplacian matrix. In other words, the Laplacian matrix combined with the received neighboring estimates (i.e., the term ) definitely affects the volume of the estimated ellipsoid .…”