Abstract: Method and system for synchronizing a receiver in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The method comprises transforming (105) a received signal from the time domain into the frequency domain to produce a transformed signal. The method further comprises rotating (110) each set of ranging tones of the transformed signal in the frequency domain based on a corresponding tone index to produce a set of phase-rotated frequency domain received ranging tones that is equivalent to time domain shifted ranging signals. Each ranging tone is rotated iteratively over a predefined set of delay-values and each delay-value within the predefined set of delay-values ranges from zero to a predetermined time delay. Also, the method comprises computing (115) a detection metric corresponding to each delay-value within the predefined set of delay-values based on the set of phase-rotated frequency domain received ranging tones.