Wireless cooperative transmission

Wireless cooperative transmission is a fast emerging technical field, in which significant progress has been made since the inception of the fundamental works [1], [2] to unveil the advantages of the cooperative transmit diversity. Cooperative transmission provides several unique capabilities such as the macro-diversity, inference coordination-and-mitigation, minimum energy networking, and simple lower cost implementation. Traditionally, the transmit diversity is achieved by a single node transmission such as a base station, with the use of the multiple diversity transmit antennas. The basic proposition of the cooperative transmission is to organize a set of distributed nodes to jointly perform the transmission in a collaborative fashion; this opens a new paradigm for multiuser communications theory and practice.