Beamforming for MISO Interference Channels with QoS and RF Energy Transfer

in Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on (2014), 13(5), 2646-2658

We consider a multiuser multiple-input single-output interference channel where the receivers are characterized by both quality-of-service (QoS) and radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) constraints ... [more ▼]

We consider a multiuser multiple-input single-output interference channel where the receivers are characterized by both quality-of-service (QoS) and radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) constraints. We consider the power splitting RF-EH technique where each receiver divides the received signal into two parts a) for information decoding and b) for battery charging. The minimum required power that supports both the QoS and the RF-EH constraints is formulated as an optimization problem that incorporates the transmitted power and the beamforming design at each transmitter as well as the power splitting ratio at each receiver. We consider both the cases of fixed beamforming and when the beamforming design is incorporated into the optimization problem. For fixed beamforming we study three standard beamforming schemes, the zero-forcing (ZF), the regularized zero-forcing (RZF) and the maximum ratio transmission (MRT); a hybrid scheme, MRT-ZF, comprised of a linear combination of MRT and ZF beamforming is also examined. The optimal solution for ZF beamforming is derived in closed-form, while optimization algorithms based on second-order cone programming are developed for MRT, RZF and MRT-ZF beamforming to solve the problem. In addition, the joint-optimization of beamforming and power allocation is studied using semidefinite programming (SDP) with the aid of rank relaxation. [less ▲]

MISO interference channel with QoS and RF energy harvesting constraints

in Communications (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on (2013)

This paper deals with a multiple-input single-output (MISO) network where the receivers are characterized by both quality-of-service (QoS) and radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) constraints. We ... [more ▼]

This paper deals with a multiple-input single-output (MISO) network where the receivers are characterized by both quality-of-service (QoS) and radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) constraints. We consider the power splitting RF-EH technique where each receiver divides the received signal into two parts a) the first part for information decoding and b) the second part for battery charging. The minimum required energy that supports both the QoS and the RF-EH constraints at each receiver is formulated by an optimization problem and is discussed for two standard beamforming designs, the zero-forcing (ZF) and the maximum ratio transmission (MRT). The optimal solution for ZF beamforming is derived in closed-form, while optimization algorithms based on second-order cone programming (SOCP) and Linear Programming (LP) are developed for MRT beamforming to solve the problem. Numerical results indicate that MRT significantly outperforms ZF in terms of transmitted power, as the associated cross-interference becomes beneficial from an EH standpoint, while ZF always ensures the existence of a solution for the optimization problem considered. [less ▲]