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In the current paper, these deficiencies are avoided by the introduction of a second receiver filter with specific properties that is operated in parallel to the receiver filter normally used in this respect. Although not initially intended, the concept is also applied to data-aided SNR estimation by deriving a maximum likelihood algorithm and the Cramer\u2013Rao lower bound (CRLB) as the theoretical limit of the error performance. In the next step, the dual-filter framework is used in the context of SNR estimation without knowledge about data symbols. The most significant benefit of this method is that the number of payload data employed for the estimation procedure might be selected arbitrarily long without impacting the spectral efficiency of the link. Since the computation of the true CRLB was out of scope due to complexity reasons, an asymptotic variant for very low SNR values is analyzed, which ends up in a closed-form solution. 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