A reception method implemented by a reception device implementing a plurality of receive antennas. The method includes: estimating an interference covariance matrix representative of the spatial structure of the interference between the receive antennas; and transmitting at least one item of information about a quality of service associated with at least one acquisition technique for acquiring knowledge of the channel at transmission, able to be used by a transmission device implementing a plurality of transmit antennas, obtained from the interference covariance matrix.