A method for operating a base station in a wireless radio network, the base station comprising a plurality of antennas for transmitting radio frequency signals between the base station and a user equipment, the method comprising: - receiving, at the base station, at each antenna of a subset of the plurality of antennas a training signal sent from the user equipment, - determining for each antenna of the subset a corresponding configuration parameter based on the training signal received at the corresponding antenna, and - communicating a plurality of payload information blocks between the base station and the user equipment using the determined configuration parameters for the antennas and a predetermined transmission scheme, each of the plurality of payload information blocks being transmitted as a downlink information block from the base station to the user equipment or as an uplink information block from the user equipment to the base station, wherein the method comprises for at least one payload information block of the plurality of payload information blocks: - for an uplink information block: determining a transmission quality parameter of the at least one payload information block in the base station, - for a downlink information block: receiving, at the base station from the user equipment, a transmission quality parameter of the least one payload information block determined in the user equipment, - determining if the quality of the at least one payload information block is degraded based on the transmission quality parameter, - adapting a transmission scheme in case the quality of the at least one payload information block is degraded, and - transmitting to the user equipment, in an acknowledgement section of a payload information block, a request to use the adapted transmission scheme for transmitting a next payload information block, wherein the quality parameter comprises at least one of a group consisting of: - a bit error rate, - a symbol error rate, - a signal to noise ratio, - a signal to interference ratio, - an absolute signal level, and - a velocity dependent signal quality, determined based on a change of a spatial arrangement of the base station and the user equipment. - receiving, at the base station, at each antenna of a subset of the plurality of antennas a training signal sent from the user equipment, - determining for each antenna of the subset a corresponding configuration parameter based on the training signal received at the corresponding antenna, and - communicating a plurality of payload information blocks between the base station and the user equipment using the determined configuration parameters for the antennas and a predetermined transmission scheme, each of the plurality of payload information blocks being transmitted as a downlink information block from the base station to the user equipment or as an uplink information block from the user equipment to the base station, wherein the method comprises for at least one payload information block of the plurality of payload information blocks: - for an uplink information block: determining a transmission quality parameter of the at least one payload information block in the base station, - for a downlink information block: receiving, at the base station from the user equipment, a transmission quality parameter of the least one payload information block determined in the user equipment, - determining if the quality of the at least one payload information block is degraded based on the transmission quality parameter, - adapting a transmission scheme in case the quality of the at least one payload information block is degraded, and - transmitting to the user equipment, in an acknowledgement section of a payload information block, a request to use the adapted transmission scheme for transmitting a next payload information block, - a bit error rate, - a symbol error rate, - a signal to noise ratio, - a signal to interference ratio, - an absolute signal level, and - a velocity dependent signal quality, determined based on a change of a spatial arrangement of the base station and the user equipment.