Backhaul communication in wireless networks

A computer program product stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling backhaul reception in a wireless network, the wireless network comprising one or more coordinating network nodes and one or more cooperative network nodes, the computer program product comprising software instructions which, when run on one or more processing circuits of a cooperative network node from the one or more cooperative network nodes, causes the cooperative network node to:

• receive an uplink signal from a wireless device, the uplink signal comprising data;
• compressively sample the data so as to obtain compressive measurements of the data wherein the data is compressively sampled independently of other cooperative network nodes from the one or more cooperative network nodes in the wireless network, and wherein the data is compressively sampled independently only if a signal quality, measured at the cooperative network node and relating to a communications link between the cooperative network node and the wireless device, is above a predetermined threshold;
• transmit the compressively sampled data to a coordinating network node from the one or more coordinating network nodes.