Errors and erasures decoding for interference channels

This paper examines the gains to be realized by using an errors-and-erasures decoding strategy on a pulse jammed channel, rather than errors-only, for concatenated Reed-Solomon/orthogonal codes. The work is largely computational and serves to quantify the gains achievable in such a situation. Previous studies have shown that the gains of errors-and-erasures over errors-only on the AWGN channel are minimal. The gains reported here for the pulse jammed channel are more substantial, particularly for the lower duty cycles.