For communication systems, there is usually a target minimum rate $R$ bits per second. An outage occurs if the actual rate ever falls below $R$. Since $\frac{1}{2}\text{log}_2(1+\text{SNR})$, sometimes outage is also talked about in terms of $\text{SNR}$ and received signal power needing to be greater than some threshold $P$.
My question is: Say I have a very small packet of five symbols, and during the second symbol I experience an outage. The other four symbols received power was all greater than $P$. Does this mean that my entire packet was unable to be decoded?
EDIT:
For example, if I use the encoding scheme where: 0 = 00000, 1 = 11111, then I have 1 bit per 5 channel uses. So I can use the formula: $\frac{1}{2}\text{log}_2(1+\text{SNR})=\frac{1}{5}$ bits per channel use, and can solve for the required $\text{SNR}=0.3195$. Does this mean that all five symbols should have $\text{SNR}\geq0.3195$ in order to successfully receive the single bit?