Sum Rate Maximizing in a Multi-User MIMO System with SWIPT

This paper studies the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multiuser broadcast (BC) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, in which a base station sends messages to several information decoding (ID) users, and transmits wireless power to multiple energy harvesting (EH) user at the same time. We aim to maximize the sum-rate of the ID users while maintaining a minimum EH constraint for each EH user. Firstly, an optimal rate-energy (R-E) boundary is characterized by using a BC-multiple access channel (MAC) duality derived from dirty paper coding (DPC). Since the complexity of the DPC is quite high due to continuously encoding and decoding at the transceivers, we then propose a sub- optimal algorithm using a weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE) approach, which has lower complexity and iteratively converges a local optimal point. Finally, the performance comparisons and convergence properties are illustrated by simulation results.