The embodiment of the invention provides a method and device for
data detection in a communication
system and a computer readable medium. The method described herein includes receiving, at a receivingdevice, a set of reference
signal time domain symbols from a target transmitting device, the reference
signal having a comb distribution with a spacing factor of N in the
frequency domain, N being apositive integer not less than 2; for each reference
signal time domain symbol in the set, dividing the reference signal
time domain symbol into N parts with
repeatability; obtaining channel
estimation and
estimation of a
covariance matrix of interference and
noise based on N parts of each reference signal time domain symbol in the set; applying an adjustment factor to the estimate of the
covariance matrix to obtain a corrected
covariance matrix, the adjustment factor being associated with a spacing factor N; and performing
data detection based on the channel
estimation and the corrected
covariance matrix. By utilizing the embodiment of the invention, the performance of
data detection can be improved.