Communication method and system with on demand temporal diversity

A system comprising:

• a transmitter including:
• an interleaver configured to interleave data,
• a first encoder configured to encode the interleaved data to determine parity bits,
• a multiplexer configured to multiplex the data with the determined parity bits, and
• a second encoder implementing an error correcting code, the second encoder being configured to encode the multiplexed data.

A non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium on which computer readable instructions of a program are stored, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:

• transmitting a signal carrying data on a first path and a second path;
• interleaving the data on the first path;
• encoding the interleaved data to determine parity bits;
• multiplexing the data on the second path with the determined parity bits to form a multiplexed signal;
• encoding the multiplexed signal using an error correcting code to form an output signal;
• and
• transmitting the output signal.