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Table 1 List of major symbols used in this papers

From: A novel joint transmit beamforming and receive time switching strategy for MISO SWIPT system

Symbol

Description

M

Number of users (co-channel receiving terminal)

N t

Number of base station transmitting antenna

s i

Information of the ith user, siCN(0,1)

Slot 1

Information slot

Slot 2

Energy slot

v i

Information beamforming vector for the ith user,

 

\(\mathbf {v} \in {\mathbb {C}^{N_{t} \times 1}}\)

w i

Energy beamforming vector for the ith user,

 

\(\mathbf {w} \in {\mathbb {C}^{N_{t} \times 1}}\)

x i

The information of antenna i

h k

Channel gain vector for the kth user, \(\mathbf {h} \in {\mathbb {C}^{N_{t} \times 1}}\)

W

Bandwidth

n k

Antenna noise for the kth user,

 

\(n_{k}\sim CN\left (0,\sigma ^{2}_{k}\right)\)

z k

Demodulation noise for the kth user,

 

\(z_{k}\sim CN\left (0,\delta ^{2}_{k}\right)\)

α

Time switching ratio, 0≤α≤1

ζ k

Energy conversion efficiency

γ k

Minimum SINR threshold of IR

e k

Minimum energy collection threshold of ER

P

Maximum transmission power threshold of

 

base station