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This letter proposes a Reed–Muller network coded-cooperative (RMNCC) scheme with the joint decoding. The Kronecker product (KP) construction is utilized to construct RM codes. The KP construction is effectively employed to accomplish network coded-cooperation between two users. An asymptotic error performance bound is presented to validate the average BER performance of the RMNCC scheme over fast Rayleigh fading channel. Monte Carlo simulated results for the RMNCC scheme agree with the analytical framework at higher SNR. Furthermore, a joint bit selection algorithm for the optimum selection of information bits at the relay node is also proposed, which results in an improved BER performance.