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Table 1 Notation used in the paper

From: User grouping and resource allocation in multiuser MIMO systems under SWIPT

\(\mathcal {A}\)

Set

\(\mathcal {A}=\{a_{1},a_{2},\dots \}\)

Set \(\mathcal {A}\) containing the elements {a1,a2,… }

\(|\mathcal {A}|\)

Number of elements in set \(\mathcal {A}\)

\(a \in \mathcal {A}\)

a belongs to set \(\mathcal {A}\)

\(\mathcal {A} \setminus a\)

Set resulting from subtracting a from set \(\mathcal {A}\)

Empty set

\(\mathcal {A} \subseteq \mathcal {B}\)

Set \(\mathcal {A}\) is included in or equal to set \(\mathcal {B}\)

\(\mathcal {A}\cap \mathcal {B}, \mathcal {A}\cup \mathcal {B}\)

Intersection of sets \(\mathcal {A}\) and \(\mathcal {B}\), union of sets \(\mathcal {A}\) and \(\mathcal {B}\)

a,A

Vector a, matrix A

aT,AT

Transpose of vector a, matrix A

aH,AH

Hermitian (transpose conjugated) of vector a, matrix A

Tr(A), det(A)

Trace of matrix A, determinant of matrix A

A0

Matrix A is positive semidefinite

||a||

Norm-2 of vector a

\(\mathbb {C}^{m\times n}\)

Set of complex matrices of size m×n

I n

Identity matrix of size n×n

\(\mathbb {E}[\cdot ]\)

Expectation

\(=, \triangleq,\neq \)

Equal, equal by definition, different

>,≥,<,≤

Higher, higher or equal, lower, lower or equal

log(·), exp(·)=e(·)

Logarithm, exponential

n!

Factorial of n

\(\sum \)

Summation

min, max

Minimum, maximum

\((x)^{b}_{a}\)

\((x)^{b}_{a} = \min \{\max \{a,x\},b\}\)

a b

a to b

For all

\(\mathop {\text {maximize}}_{x_{1},x_{2},\dots }\)

Maximization with respect to variables x1,x2,…

\(\mathop {\text {minimize}}_{x_{1},x_{2},\dots }\)

Minimization with respect to variables x1,x2,…

x

Optimum value of x

f−1(·)

Inverse function

xy

x is updated with y