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Virtual multi-input multi-output (MIMO) or vMIMO is becoming an attractive technology to achieve spatial diversity in wireless networks without using additional antennas, and to reduce power consumption by cooperation among multiple nodes. As data gathering is one of the most important operations in many sensor network applications, this paper studies energy-efficient data gathering in wireless sensor...