A method and apparatus for cooperative multiple point transmission and reception (CoMP) are provided. The method includes: receiving channel information for a cell included in a clustering set from a user equipment; determining an active set consisting of a cell performing CoMP on the user equipment by using the channel information; and determining a cooperation period in which at least one of the clustering set and the active set is applied to the user equipment, where the clustering set denotes a set of candidate cells which can be included in the active set.