“…CC technology has been shown to be able to significantly enhance the network performance in terms of saving power or energy [8, 9], reducing interference and increasing throughput [10, 11]. Moreover, as mentioned in [12, 13], CC can improve the bit error rate performance in multi‐carrier code division multiple access when exploiting multi‐user preprocessing‐assisted cooperative downlink transmission. It can also allow high‐data‐rate terminals to assist low‐data‐rate terminals by relaying their data [14] so that it can provide higher transmission data rates [15, 16].…”