Joint Subcarrier and Subsymbol Allocation-Based Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer for Multiuser GFDM in IoT

Abstract

In order to overcome the shortcomings of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and prolong the battery life of devices in the Internet of Things, a joint subcarrier and subsymbol allocation-based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer scheme for multiuser generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) system is proposed in this paper. According to the 2-D time-frequency block structure of GFDM, we investigate the problem to maximize sum information decoding (ID) rate by optimizing subcarrier and subsymbol allocation, power allocation and power splitting ratio under the constraints of total transmit power and harvested energy. To solve the nonconvex problem, an iterative algorithm is developed to obtain its optimal solution. The performances of sum ID rate and harvested energy are simulated and evaluated. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm converges fast. Moreover, the proposed algorithm can not only allocate the subcarriers, subsymbols, and power based on different channel conditions of users, but also outperform the conventional OFDM in sum ID rate on the premise of satisfying the minimum harvested energy of each user.