Sum rate maximization and energy harvesting for two-way af relay systems with imperfect CSI

Abstract

This paper studies the beamforming design of two-way relay systems for simultaneous information and power transfer with consideration of imperfect channel state information (CSI). To this end, we seek the robust beamforming design to maximize the weighted sum rate under the power constraint at relay nodes and the energy harvesting constraints at the two source nodes. Due to the infinitely many nonconvex constraints, the robust beamforming design problem is challenging. Therefore, we firstly propose an approximate to the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). Then an iterative algorithm is developed based on the semidefinite relaxation (SDR), S-procedure and successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated by numerical experiments.