5. Conclusion
In this paper, we considered the beamforming design for a wireless communication system with both an energy harvesting eceiver and an information decoding receiver for sensor networks or IoT environments. Under a simplified system setup, we formulated a problem to find the transmission strategy for maximizing the R–E pair. By means of MRC, we transformed the original problem into an eigenvalue problem and obtained the solution set. Then we suggested a QoE-based solution selection method for the user’s satisfaction. The performance of the proposed design was confirmed through numerical simulations. Future research includes a beamforming design for the more general cases with multiple transmitters and an algorithm to search for suitable max-QoE parameter λ.