A method and apparatus for processing a frequency domain digital Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. The method includes generating an estimate of a channel for each sub carrier of the OFDM symbol, generating channel state information corresponding to each sub carrier of the OFDM symbol, and generating a plurality of demodulated symbols based, at least in part on, the estimate of the channel for each sub carrier of the OFDM symbol. Each demodulated symbol corresponds to a given sub carrier of the OFDM symbol. The method further includes performing a soft decision decoding on each demodulated symbol to generate a corresponding soft decision decoded symbol. The soft decision decoding of each demodulated symbol is based, at least in part, on the channel state information corresponding to the given sub carrier associated with the demodulated symbol.