Mechanisms for multi-tier distributed co-operative multi-point technology

A network device comprising:

• a wireless interface;
• a processor operatively coupled to the wireless interface;
• and
• a computer readable storage medium operatively coupled to the processor, the computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming comprising instructions to:
• transmit, via the wireless interface, a pilot pattern;
• and
• transmit, via the wireless interface, control information associating one or more first transmit layers with the pilot pattern, the first transmit layers having predefined modulation and coding and being multiplexed in a time-frequency resource space in at least one of:
• a time domain, a frequency domain, a code domain, a power domain, and a space domain.