  Recent work have shown that Reed-Muller (RM) codes achieve the erasure
channel capacity. However, this performance is obtained with maximum-likelihood
decoding which can be costly for practical applications. In this paper, we
propose an encoding/decoding scheme for Reed-Muller codes on the packet erasure
channel based on Plotkin construction. We present several improvements over the
generic decoding. They allow, for a light cost, to compete with
maximum-likelihood decoding performance, especially on high-rate codes, while
significantly outperforming it in terms of speed.
