Optimization of wireless information and power transfer in multiuser OFDM systems

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), which belongs to energy harvesting techniques, is an important research topic. In existing literature, two SWIPT schemes, namely the time switching (TS) scheme and the power splitting (PS) scheme are adopted. For multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiple (OFDM) systems, this paper proposes a new SWIPT scheme named as the subcarrier sharing (SS) scheme. Resource allocation algorithms for the SS scheme are then proposed for maximizing the sum rate under the minimum harvested energy constraint. We show that the SS scheme outperforms the existing TS and the PS schemes.