Joint Beam-Forming Optimization for Active-RIS-Assisted Internet-of-Things Networks with SWIPT

Lidong Liu, Shidang Li (), Mingsheng Wei, Jinsong Xu and Bencheng Yu
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Lidong Liu: School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
Shidang Li: School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
Mingsheng Wei: School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
Jinsong Xu: The JSNU-SPBPU Institute of Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
Bencheng Yu: School of Information Engineering, Xuzhou Vocational College of Industrial Technology, Xuzhou 221140, China

Future Internet, 2024, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: Network energy resources are limited in communication systems, which may cause energy shortages in mobile devices at the user end. Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (A-RIS) not only have phase modulation properties but also enhance the signal strength; thus, they are expected to solve the energy shortage problem experience at the user end in 6G communications. In this paper, a resource allocation algorithm for maximizing the sum of harvested energy is proposed for an active RIS-assisted Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) system to solve the problem of low performance of harvested energy for users due to multiplicative fading. First, in the active RIS-assisted SWIPT system using a power splitting architecture to achieve information and energy co-transmission, the joint resource allocation problem is constructed with the objective function of maximizing the sum of the collected energy of all users, under the constraints of signal-to-noise ratio, active RIS and base station transmit power, and power splitting factors. Second, the considered non-convex problem can be turned into a standard convex problem by using alternating optimization, semi-definite relaxation, successive convex approximation, penalty function, etc., and then an alternating iterative algorithm for harvesting energy is proposed. The proposed algorithm splits the problem into two sub-problems and then performs iterative optimization separately, and then the whole is alternately optimized to obtain the optimal solution. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance by 45.2% and 103.7% compared to the passive RIS algorithm and the traditional without-RIS algorithm, respectively, at the maximum permissible transmitting power of 45 dBm at the base station.

Keywords: active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; simultaneous wireless information and power transfer; iterative optimization; successive convex approximation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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