Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for mitigating fading in a wireless communication system. A wireless communication, having an associated communication channel, includes a coder that provides coding to a digital input signal. A block interleaver has an associated interleaving depth and interleaving span. The associated interleaving span is selected as to achieve a target value for a normalized fading bandwidth associated with the channel. The block interleaver interleaves the coded input signal. A frequency hopping transmitter broadcasts the interleaved signal at a set of frequencies associated with the channel.