SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MITIGATING BURST NOISE IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

摘要

A method for transmitting packets of electronic information comprising: organizing one or more packets into a plurality of information segments (404); encoding the plurality of information segments in accordance with a block code to generate at least one parity segment (406, 408, 410); adapting each of the plurality of information segments and at least one parity segment for transmission over a channel of a communication system, wherein the adapting includes forward error correction encoding each of the plurality segment and at least one parity segments (406, 408, 410); and separately transmitting each of the plurality of information segments and at least one parity segment over a channel.