A communication system includes a transmitter that transmits multiple data streams to a receiver in the communication system. Each of the data streams includes data and a skip ordered set. The receiver includes a data buffer for each data stream that stores a minimal skip ordered set based on the skip ordered set in the data stream received by the data buffer. Each of the minimal skip ordered sets has a same number of symbols. Additionally, each buffer stores data of the data stream received by the data buffer. The receiver aligns the data among the data buffers based on the minimal skip ordered sets in the data buffers and outputs the aligned data. In this way, the receiver deskews the data in the data streams.