APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN MOBILE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS INCORPORATING ERASURE TABLE DATA

A receiver (120) is configured to receive data over a communications link. A decapsulator (122) is coupled to the receiver and configured to create datagrams and erasure attributes associated with the datagrams. A decoder (124) is coupled to the decapsulator and configured to store the datagrams in a frame table (400) and to create codewords, the decoder storing the datagrams in table columns to create codewords in table rows, correcting the codewords, and configured to store the erasure attributes in an erasure table (552). The erasure table is characterized in that it comprises a plurality of entries (560), each of which is associated with a column of the frame table. Each entry is comprised of a plurality of elements (570).