Methods and systems for adaptive communication

A method for communication to be carried out on a communication device, comprising:

• determining an initial impulse noise protection value and adding a number of redundancy bits to blocks of data to form codewords as a function of the initial impulse noise protection value, where the impulse noise protection value corresponds to a number of consecutive symbols that can be corrected;
• separating the codewords into interleaver blocks and interleaving the interleaver blocks to form an interleaved data stream;
• selecting an interleaver depth such that one symbol corresponds to an integer number of bytes of the interleaved data stream;
• and
• changing the number of symbols that can be correctly transmitted by changing the number of redundancy bits added to each block of data.