In this paper, we propose an efficient acquisition scheme for GPS receivers.
It is shown that GPS signals can be effectively sampled and detected using a
bank of randomized correlators with much fewer chip-matched filters than those
used in existing GPS signal acquisition algorithms. The latter use correlations
with all possible shifted replicas of the satellite-specific C/A code and an
exhaustive search for peaking signals over the delay-Doppler space.
Relay-assisted cooperative wireless communication has been shown to have
significant performance gains over the legacy direct transmission scheme.
Compared with single relay based cooperation schemes, utilizing multiple relays
further improves the reliability and rate of transmissions. Distributed
space-time coding (DSTC), as one of the schemes to utilize multiple relays,
requires tight coordination between relays and does not perform well in a
distributed environment with mobility.
Gossip algorithms are attractive for in-network processing in sensor networks
because they do not require any specialized routing, there is no bottleneck or
single point of failure, and they are robust to unreliable wireless network
conditions. Recently, there has been a surge of activity in the computer
science, control, signal processing, and information theory communities,
developing faster and more robust gossip algorithms and deriving theoretical
performance guarantees. This article presents an overview of recent work in the
area.