Multi-User Wireless Information and Power Transfer in FBMC-Based IoT Networks

Abstract

In order to address the shortcomings of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and extend the lifetime of energy-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, the combination of filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) and simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is investigated in this paper. Specifically, a multi-user FBMC-based SWIPT system is proposed in which user nodes (UNs) have the capability for both energy harvesting (EH) and information decoding (ID) with the aid of separate antennas. A practical non-linear EH model, which considers the saturation effects of the EH circuit, is considered. The information receiver at both the UNs and base station (BS) adopts an iterative interference cancellation (IIC) receiver to cancel the intrinsic interference in the demodulated FBMC signal. A sum-rate maximization problem is solved to jointly optimize parameters such as time, power, and weight allocations. Sub-optimal schemes are proposed for comparison. Numerical results show that the optimal solution significantly outperforms the sub-optimal methods in terms of achievable sum-rate and amount of harvested energy. Moreover, the results show that the proposed algorithm converges within a few iterations.