Network energy resources are limited in communication systems, which may cause energy shortages in mobile devices at the user end. Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (A-RIS) not only have phase modulation properties but also enhance the signal strength; thus, they are expected to solve the energy shortage problem experience at the user end in 6G communications. In this paper, a resource allocation algorithm for maximizing the sum of harvested energy is proposed for an active RIS-assisted Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) system to solve the problem of low performance of harvested energy for users due to multiplicative fading. First, in the active RIS-assisted SWIPT system using a power splitting architecture to achieve information and energy co-transmission, the joint resource allocation problem is constructed with the objective function of maximizing the sum of the collected energy of all users, under the constraints of signal-to-noise ratio, active RIS and base station transmit power, and power splitting factors. Second, the considered non-convex problem can be turned into a standard convex problem by using alternating optimization, semi-definite relaxation, successive convex approximation, penalty function, etc., and then an alternating iterative algorithm for harvesting energy is proposed. The proposed algorithm splits the problem into two sub-problems and then performs iterative optimization separately, and then the whole is alternately optimized to obtain the optimal solution. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance by 45.2% and 103.7% compared to the passive RIS algorithm and the traditional without-RIS algorithm, respectively, at the maximum permissible transmitting power of 45 dBm at the base station.

Aiming at the influence of channel uncertainty, user information leakage and harvested energy improvement, this paper proposes a robust resource allocation algorithm for reconfigurable intelligent reflector (RIS) multiple-input single-output systems based on imperfect channel state information. First, considering the legal user minimum secret rate constraint, the base station maximum transmit power constraint and the RIS phase shift constraint with the bounded channel uncertainty, a joint optimization of the base station active beam, energy beam and RIS phase shift is established. A multivariate coupled nonlinear resource allocation problem for matrices is addressed. Then, using S-procedure and alternating optimization methods, the original non-convex problem is transformed into a deterministic convex optimization problem and an alternating optimization algorithm based on continuous convex approximation is proposed. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better fairness harvested energy compared with the traditional robust algorithm.

This paper studied the robust beamforming for dense transmission systems with imperfect channel state information (CSI). The objective was to maximize the minimum signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) in the constraint of the per base station (BS) power. By performing the uplink–downlink duality theory, the referred non-convex optimization problem can be changed into the equivalent uplink decoupling optimization problem. Then, we proposed the instantaneous updating uplink–downlink power algorithm, which relies on instantaneous CSI for the finite system. For the massive MIMO system, to obtain the solution to the problem required for power to instantaneously update, we proposed the updating uplink–downlink power algorithm, which only requires statistical CSI, by applying the random matrix theory. The simulation results show the feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed algorithms.

The research of the sixth generation (6G) cellular network aims at much higher spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) and would lead to both a