Fair and Efficient Rate Allocation for Wireless-Powered Machine-Type Communication Networks

Table 1

Assumed system parameter values.

Parameter	Definition	Value
K	Number of the MTCDs	4
	Transmission power at the PB	3 W [26]
	Noise power at the UE receiver	10^−15 W [28]
	Energy harvesting efficiency	0.5
	Portion of harvested energy used for information transmission	0.5
	The minimum rate requirement of an MTCD	500 Kb/s
n	Path loss exponent	3.8 [16]
	Body shadowing loss margin	15 dB [16]