Methods of estimating error rates for communications received using iterative processing and related receivers

摘要

Estimating an error rate for received communications can include iteratively processing each of a plurality of received symbol sequences to provide a respective plurality of data sequences, and providing a number of iterations performed to provide each of the plurality of data sequences. An error rate for the received communications can then be estimated based on the number of iterations performed to provide each of the plurality of data sequences. Related receivers and communications devices are also discussed.