Optimal Transceiver Design for SWIPT in K-User MIMO Interference Channels

This paper investigates simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in K-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channels. In particular, the power splitting (PS) technique is leveraged at each receiver to divide the received signal into two flows, for information decoding (ID) and energy harvesting (EH), respectively. As a whole system, our objective is to minimize the total transmit power of all transmitters by jointly designing transmit beamformers, power splitters, and receive filters, subject to the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraint for ID and the harvested power constraint for EH at each receiver. Due to the coupling nature of all variables, the formulated joint transceiver design problem is nonconvex, and has not yet been well addressed in the literature. In this paper, we first propose a semidefinite relaxation-based alternating optimization (SDRAO) solution to approach the optimal solution of the problem. Then, we semidecouple the joint optimization by the derived diversity interference alignment (DIA) technique, and obtain a solution of lower complexity. Finally, a closed-form solution is further developed relying on the transmitter-side zero-forcing (TZF), which can be implemented in a distributed manner, with the lowest computational complexity and CSI exchanging overhead.