In the field of distributed wireless sensor network long-distance communication, the communication distance and the energy of a single node are limited, a multi-hop mode is used, bit error rate is high, and time delay is large. Accordingly, the invention discloses a cooperative communication mode of wireless sensor network beam forming transmission and a node selecting method. First, the smallest node number needed for forming a virtual antenna array is determined; then an ideal antenna direction picture of the array is determined, according to the ideal direction picture, the conditions such as array shapes and node space distance are determined, and nodes which accord with the conditions are selected to form the antenna array; and finally the nodes are managed, array nodes are coordinated, time sequence is unified, and data are sent in a combination mode in a beam forming manner. According to the method, the problem that time delay is too high, and energy loss is too large due to traditional wireless sensor network long-distance multi-hop communication can be effectively avoided, communication success probability is improved, and network lifetime is prolonged.