A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving, by at least one antenna of a receiver, at least one signal from a transceiver, detecting at least one data symbol within the at least one signal, determining a probability associated with the at least one detected data symbol, determining channel state information (CSI) of at least one channel between the transceiver and the at least one antenna of the receiver, and estimating a common phase error (CPE) of the at least one signal based on the probabilities associated with the at least one detected data symbol and the CSI of the at least one channel.