| DSSS | Direct-sequence spread-spectrum |
| SS | Spread-spectrum |
| PN | Pseudo-noise |
| CS | Compressive sensing |
| TSI | Task-specific information |
| CR | Compression ratio |
| PSK | Phase-shift-keying |
| AWGN | Additive white Gaussian noise |
| Probability density function | |
| FPR | False positive rate |
| FNR | False negative rate |
| SC-DSSS | Short-code DSSS |
| MoG | Mixture of Gaussian |
| BPSK | binary PSK |
| M-sequence | maximum-length sequence |
| SNR | signal-to-noise ratio |