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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.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi16010020","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,8]],"date-time":"2024-01-08T03:49:04Z","timestamp":1704685744000},"page":"20","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Joint Beam-Forming Optimization for Active-RIS-Assisted Internet-of-Things Networks with SWIPT"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Lidong","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China"}]},{"given":"Shidang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China"}]},{"given":"Mingsheng","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China"}]},{"given":"Jinsong","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The JSNU-SPBPU Institute of Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China"}]},{"given":"Bencheng","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Xuzhou Vocational College of Industrial Technology, Xuzhou 221140, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7423","DOI":"10.1109\/TII.2022.3158612","article-title":"Energy-Efficient Beamforming for Heterogeneous Industrial IoT Networks With Phase and Distortion Noises","volume":"18","author":"Xu","year":"2022","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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