Self-Sustainable Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Simultaneous Terahertz Information and Power Transfer (STIPT)

Abstract: This paper proposes a new simultaneous terahertz (THz) information and power transfer (STIPT) system, which is assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for both the information data and power transmission. We aim to maximize the information users' (IUs') data rate while guaranteeing the energy users' (EUs') and RIS's power harvesting requirements. To solve the formulated non-convex problem, the block coordinate descent (BCD) based algorithm is adopted to alternately optimize the transmit precoding of IUs, RIS's reflecting coefficients, and RIS's coordinate. The Penalty Constrained Convex Approximation (PCCA) Algorithm is proposed to solve the intractable optimization problem of the RIS's coordinate, where the solution's feasibility is guaranteed by the introduced penalties. Simulation results confirm that the proposed BCD algorithm can significantly enhance the performance of STIPT by employing RIS.