Boutros, Joseph Jean; Zémor, Gilles; Guillén i Fábregas, A. (Albert); Biglieri, Ezio
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008)
We show how to build full-diversity product codes under both iterative encoding and decoding over non-ergodic channels, in presence of block erasure and block fading. The concept of a rootcheck or a root subcode is introduced ...