The usage of this PDF file must comply with the IEICE Provisions on Copyright. The author(s) can distribute this PDF file for research and educational (nonprofit) purposes only. Distribution by anyone other than the author(s) is prohibited.SUMMARY In this paper, the recent advances in cooperative distributed antenna transmission (CDAT) are introduced for spatial diversity and multi-user spatial multiplexing in 5G mobile communications network. CDAT is an advanced version of the coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission. Space-time block coded transmit diversity (STBC-TD) for spatial diversity and minimum mean square error filtering combined with singular value decomposition (MMSE-SVD) for multi-user spatial multiplexing are described under the presence of co-channel interference from adjacent macro-cells. Blind selected mapping (blind SLM) which requires no side information transmission is introduced in order to suppress the increased peak-to-average signal power ratio (PAPR) of the transmit signals when CDAT is applied. Some computer simulation results are presented to confirm the effectiveness of CDAT techniques. key words: 5G mobile communications network, distributed antenna network, cooperative signal transmission, space-time block coding, multi-user communication, signal peak suppression received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai Japan, in 2011. He was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research fellow from April 2014 to March 2016. Currently, he is with NTT Docomo Inc. His research interests include space-time block coding for mobile communication systems. He was a recipient of 2013 IEICE RCS (Radio Communication Systems) Active Research Award.