A method implemented by a coordinating base station in a wireless communication network of distributed coordinated multi-point reception, said method comprising: receiving first and second data signals transmitted by first and second user terminals respectively on time-frequency resources at least partially overlapping in the time and/or frequency domains; decoding the first and second data signals; verifying whether the decoding of the first and second data signals is successful; and if it is determined that at least one of the first and second data signals is successfully decoded, sending demodulated data or decoded data corresponding to at least one successfully decoded data signal to one or more additional coordinating base stations in a set of coordinating base stations, wherein decoding the first and second data signals comprises: demodulating both the first and second data signals to produce soft output values that each indicate the value of a corresponding information symbol in the first and second data signals; and decoding the soft output values to obtain said decoded data, and wherein the method further comprises: receiving a combined control channel signal containing information reference signals for said first and second user terminals respectively; generating separate control channel signals for the first and second user terminals by canceling interference in the combined control channel signals attributable to the other one of the user terminals; generating first channel estimates for the first and second user terminals from the separate control channel signals; and generating second channel estimates for the first and second user terminals from the first channel estimates. receiving first and second data signals transmitted by first and second user terminals respectively on time-frequency resources at least partially overlapping in the time and/or frequency domains; decoding the first and second data signals; verifying whether the decoding of the first and second data signals is successful; and if it is determined that at least one of the first and second data signals is successfully decoded, sending demodulated data or decoded data corresponding to at least one successfully decoded data signal to one or more additional coordinating base stations in a set of coordinating base stations, wherein decoding the first and second data signals comprises: demodulating both the first and second data signals to produce soft output values that each indicate the value of a corresponding information symbol in the first and second data signals; and decoding the soft output values to obtain said decoded data, and wherein the method further comprises: receiving a combined control channel signal containing information reference signals for said first and second user terminals respectively; generating separate control channel signals for the first and second user terminals by canceling interference in the combined control channel signals attributable to the other one of the user terminals; generating first channel estimates for the first and second user terminals from the separate control channel signals; and generating second channel estimates for the first and second user terminals from the first channel estimates. receiving a combined control channel signal containing information reference signals for said first and second user terminals respectively; generating separate control channel signals for the first and second user terminals by canceling interference in the combined control channel signals attributable to the other one of the user terminals; generating first channel estimates for the first and second user terminals from the separate control channel signals; and generating second channel estimates for the first and second user terminals from the first channel estimates. <EOS>