Receiver for wireless communication networks

A receiver, the receiver comprising:

• at least one estimating unit for receiving a signal and for providing an estimate of each signal component,
• at least two decoding and regenerating units, at each iteration, each decoding and regenerating unit decoding a respective one estimate among the estimates, and regenerating the respective decoded estimate into a respective regenerated estimate, wherein, at each iteration of the receiver, the at least one estimating unit provides the estimates based on the regenerated estimates provided at a previous iteration, wherein each decoding and regenerating unit comprises a switching unit for switching the respective decoding and regenerating unit between a first configuration wherein bit-level decoding is performed and a second configuration wherein symbol-level decoding is performed, and
• a control unit for determining activation or deactivation of each decoding and regenerating unit at each process step of a detection process dedicated to detection of the signal, and for determining, for each process step, a respective number of allowed iterations for each decoding and regenerating unit whose activation has been determined for that process step, each number of allowed iterations being determined according to radio measurements of the signal components and such that an overall number of allowed iterations over the detection process does not exceed a maximum allowed number of iterations, wherein the control unit is configured to determine, for each process step, the first or second configuration of each decoding and regenerating unit whose activation has been determined for that process step.