Product Code With Integrated Interleaved Component Codes

This letter introduces integrated interleaved (II) codes into product codes. In II codes, a shared redundancy check relationship protects the first-layer code, which helps correct errors that individual component codes cannot correct. Thus, this letter introduces integrated interleaving coding scheme to the component codes of the product code, enabling it to correct the minimum error patterns of the original product code. The simulation results show that this code outperforms existing schemes on both the binary erasure channel and the additive white Gaussian noise channel.