eprintid: 10056448 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/05/64/48 datestamp: 2018-09-19 14:08:39 lastmod: 2021-10-09 22:51:27 status_changed: 2019-02-28 17:05:46 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Tang, J creators_name: Shojaeifard, A creators_name: So, DKC creators_name: Wong, KK creators_name: Zhao, N title: Energy Efficiency Optimization for CoMP-SWIPT Heterogeneous Networks ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F46 keywords: Interference, Array signal processing, Resource management, Receivers, Optimization, Wireless communication, Quality of service note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: In this paper, a fundamental study of energy efficiency (EE) optimization for coordinated multi-point (CoMP)- simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is provided. We aim to optimize the EE whilst satisfying certain quality-of-service (QoS) requirements in regard to transmission rate and energy harvesting at both the macro-cell and small-cells. The corresponding joint beamforming and power allocation in the presence of intra- and inter-cell interference constitutes a EE maximization problem that is non-convex, and hence very challenging to solve. In order to solve this problem, we propose to separate the beamforming design and power allocation processes. First, we adopt linear zero-forcing (ZF) beamforming to suppress the multi-user interference from both the energy harvesting users (EH-UEs) as well as the information decoding users (ID-UEs), thus transforming the HetNet under consideration to a virtual point-to-point system. An efficient power allocation algorithm is then developed to maximize the corresponding EE. On the other hand, the ZF strategy does not utilize the notion that interference benefits the EH-UEs. As a result, we propose a partial zeroforcing (PZF) approach by differentiating the EH-UEs and IDUEs in order to further improve the EE. Our findings show that the EE can be significantly improved through the integration of CoMP-SWIPT in HetNets. date: 2018-12 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2866852 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1584811 doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2866852 language_elements: English lyricists_name: Shojaeifard, Arman lyricists_name: Wong, Kai-Kit lyricists_id: ASHOJ33 lyricists_id: KWONG98 actors_name: Kokkinos, Iason actors_name: Bracey, Alan actors_id: IKOKK25 actors_id: ABBRA90 actors_role: owner actors_role: impersonator full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Transactions on Communications volume: 66 number: 12 pagerange: 6368-6383 issn: 0090-6778 citation: Tang, J; Shojaeifard, A; So, DKC; Wong, KK; Zhao, N; (2018) Energy Efficiency Optimization for CoMP-SWIPT Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications , 66 (12) pp. 6368-6383. 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2866852 <https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2866852>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056448/1/Shojaeifard_Energy%20Efficiency%20Optimization%20for%20CoMP-SWIPT%20Heterogeneous%20Networks_AAM.pdf