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With this system, we aim to maximize the sum of the logarithmic average spectral efficiency (SE) of the GNs while guaranteeing the average harvested energy requirement to improve the average SE and user fairness simultaneously. To deal with the nonconvexity of the optimization problem, we adopt the quadratic transform and first-order Taylor expansion, proposing an iterative algorithm to find the optimal trajectory and transmit the power of the UAV and the PS ratio of the GNs. 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