Non-coherent distributed space-time processing for multiuser cooperative transmissions

User cooperation can provide spatial transmit diversity gains, enhance coverage and potentially increase capacity. Existing works have focused on two-user cooperative systems with perfect channel state information at the receivers. In this paper, we develop several distributed space-time processing schemes for general N-user cooperative systems, which do not require channel state information at either relays or destination. We prove that full spatial diversity gain can be achieved in such systems. Simulations demonstrate that these cooperative schemes achieve significant performance gain