Uma Revisão das Implementações de Sistemas Cooperativos na Indústria e na Academia

n the last years, there has been an upsurge ofresearch interest in cooperative wireless communications. Thisarticle presents an overview about important topics related withthe promised theoretical gains of cooperative communicationsand their results in real environments. This work does not intendto be exhaustive but can serve as a roadmap to the most recentand relevant results in the area. The initial emphasis will be aboutthe applied cooperation in the mobile industry and it concludeswith the evaluation of how academy developed resources to testand check the gains promised by theory.