In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional heterogeneous cellular network scenario consisting of one base station (BS) and some mobile stations (MSs) whose locations follow a Poisson point process (PPP). The MSs are equipped with multiple radio access interfaces including a cellular access interface and at least one short-range communication interface. We propose a nearest-neighbor cooperation communication (NNCC) scheme by exploiting the short-range communication between a MS and its nearest neighbor to collaborate on their uplink transmissions. In the proposed cooperation scheme, a MS and its nearest neighbor first exchange data by the short-range communication. Upon successful decoding of the data from each other, they proceed to send their own data, as well as the data received from the other to the BS respectively in orthogonal time slots. The energy efficiency analysis for the proposed scheme is presented based on the characteristics of the PPP and the Rayleigh fading channel. Numerical results show that the NNCC scheme significantly improves the energy efficiency compared to the conventional noncooperative uplink transmissions. 1 Index Terms-Cooperative communication; Poisson point process; heterogeneous cellular network cooperative protocol based on incremental redundancy by a ACK/NACK feedback is proposed in [10].Many of the above works have presented valuable theories, methods and technologies of cooperative communication. But there are still some improvements left to perform. Zou et al. in [11] investigate user terminals cooperating with each other in transmitting their data packets to the BS, by exploiting the multiple network access interfaces, which is called internetwork cooperation. Given a target outage probability and data rate requirements, they analyze the energy consumption of conventional schemes as compared to the proposed internetwork cooperation. The results show that the inter-network cooperation can significantly improve the energy efficiency of the uplink cellular communications. However in practical view there are some limits of this scheme work. In [11], it is required that the cooperative MSs have the same distances to the BS and know the instantaneous fading coefficients of both the short-range communication channel and each cellular channel to form an orthogonal matrix used in cooperative. In contrast, our paper intends to propose a more general and yet efficient cooperative scheme for HCNs, in which the cooperative MSs do not need to locate at the same distance away from the BS and are able to perform the cooperative communication without knowing the channel status.The main contributions of this paper are summarized as follows. At first, we present a nearest-neighbor cooperative communication (NNCC) scheme in a HCN consisting of different radio access networks, i.e., a short-range communication network and a cellular network. Then we compare the proposed NNCC scheme to conventional schemes without user cooperation under target outage probability and data rate requirements. Se...