Multiuser MISO Beamforming for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer

This paper studies a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) broadcast simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system, where a multi-antenna access point (AP) sends wireless information and energy simultaneously via spatial multiplexing to multiple single-antenna receivers each of which implements information decoding (ID) or energy harvesting (EH). We aim to maximize the weighted sum-power transferred to all EH receivers subject to given minimum signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) constraints at different ID receivers. In particular, we consider two types of ID receivers (referred to as Type I and Type II, respectively) without or with the capability of cancelling the…