Movable Antennas-aided Wireless Energy Transfer for the Internet of Things

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Main Authors: Rosabal, Osmel Martínez, López, Onel Alcaraz, Di Renzo, Marco, Souza, Richard Demo, Alves, Hirley
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Published: 2025
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author Rosabal, Osmel Martínez
López, Onel Alcaraz
Di Renzo, Marco
Souza, Richard Demo
Alves, Hirley
author_facet Rosabal, Osmel Martínez
López, Onel Alcaraz
Di Renzo, Marco
Souza, Richard Demo
Alves, Hirley
contents Recent advancements in movable antennas (MAs) technology create new opportunities for 6G and beyond wireless systems. MAs are promising for radio frequency wireless energy transfer because they can dynamically adjust antenna positions, improving energy efficiency and scalability. This work aims to minimize the power consumed by an analog beamforming power beacon equipped with independently-controlled MAs (IMAs) for charging multiple single-antenna devices. To this end, we enforce a minimum separation among antennas and a minimum received power at the devices. The resulting optimization problem is nonlinear and nonconvex due to interdependencies among the variables. To tackle this, we propose a semidefinite program guided particle swarm optimization (SgPSO) algorithm where each particle represents an antenna configuration, and the fitness function optimizes the corresponding power allocation. SgPSO is utilized for configuring the MAs largely outperforming fixed array implementations, particularly with more antennas or devices. We also present an alternative implementation using uniformly-spaced MAs, whose performance closely approaches that of the IMAs, with the gap widening only as the number of devices grows. We also examine how increasing the number of antennas promotes near-field conditions, which decrease as devices become more widely distributed.
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spellingShingle Movable Antennas-aided Wireless Energy Transfer for the Internet of Things
Rosabal, Osmel Martínez
López, Onel Alcaraz
Di Renzo, Marco
Souza, Richard Demo
Alves, Hirley
Signal Processing
Recent advancements in movable antennas (MAs) technology create new opportunities for 6G and beyond wireless systems. MAs are promising for radio frequency wireless energy transfer because they can dynamically adjust antenna positions, improving energy efficiency and scalability. This work aims to minimize the power consumed by an analog beamforming power beacon equipped with independently-controlled MAs (IMAs) for charging multiple single-antenna devices. To this end, we enforce a minimum separation among antennas and a minimum received power at the devices. The resulting optimization problem is nonlinear and nonconvex due to interdependencies among the variables. To tackle this, we propose a semidefinite program guided particle swarm optimization (SgPSO) algorithm where each particle represents an antenna configuration, and the fitness function optimizes the corresponding power allocation. SgPSO is utilized for configuring the MAs largely outperforming fixed array implementations, particularly with more antennas or devices. We also present an alternative implementation using uniformly-spaced MAs, whose performance closely approaches that of the IMAs, with the gap widening only as the number of devices grows. We also examine how increasing the number of antennas promotes near-field conditions, which decrease as devices become more widely distributed.
title Movable Antennas-aided Wireless Energy Transfer for the Internet of Things
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21966