Abstract: A method and system to provide aggregate transit time. In one embodiment, the method, which may be performed by a system, comprises receiving information identifying a shipping destination; and in response to the information, providing data related to on-time performance for one or more shipping vendors providing shipping services to the destination.

Abstract: The present invention provides a receiver for underwater acoustic telemetry which combines a decision feedback adaptive equalizer structure with a modified turbo-equalizer structure. The modified turbo-equalizer structure is of significantly reduced complexity because the decision feedback adaptive equalizer structure is operable to process a plurality of data channels to provide a single symbol data output stream for application to the input of the modified turbo-equalizer which uses a decision feedback equalized, interleaver, deinterleaver and a decoder. Either a hard viterbi decorder for single iteration processing or a soft in/soft out decorder such as a MAP decoder for multiple iteration can be used. The iteration provide improved performance compared to a normal DFE and lower complexity compared to the traditional turbo-equalizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method, a computer medium, and a device for a two stage S_Random interleaver that is constructed based on two optimization criteria. The distance spectrum properties of the code are maximized by designing an interleaver that increases the minimum effective free distance of the code. In addition, the interleaver is designed to reduce the correlation properties of the extrinsic information that is fed into the next stage decoder. Thus, the present invention utilizes the reduced correlation properties to provide a more efficient S-random interleaver with increased iterations, thus maximizing the bit error rate (BER) performance of the code with respect to iterative decoding.