Decentralized Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission in K-User   Multiple Access Channels
  In this paper, the fundamental limits of decentralized simultaneous information and energy transmission in the $K$-user Gaussian multiple access channel (G-MAC), with an arbitrary $K \geqslant 2$ and one non-colocated energy harvester (EH), are fully characterized.   The objective of the transmitters is twofold. First, they aim to reliably communicate their message indices to the receiver; and second, to harvest energy at the EH at a rate not less than a minimum rate requirement $b$. The information rates $R_1,\dots,R_K$, in bits per channel use, are measured at the receiver and the energy rate $B$ is measured at an EH.   Stability is considered in the sense of an $\eta$-Nash equilibrium ($\eta$-NE), with $\eta > 0$.   The main result is a full characterization of the $\eta$-NE information-energy region, i.e., the set of information-energy rate tuples $(R_1,\dots,R_K,B)$ that are achievable and stable in the G-MAC when:   $(a)$ all the transmitters autonomously and independently tune their own transmit configurations seeking to maximize their own information transmission rates $R_1,\dots, R_K$; and   $(b)$ all the transmitters jointly guarantee an energy transmission rate $B$ at the EH, such that $B \geqslant b$.   Therefore, any rate tuple outside the $\eta$-NE region is not stable as there always exists at least one transmitter able to increase by at least $\eta$ bits per channel use its own information transmission rate by updating its own transmit configuration. 
Selma Belhadj Amor, Samir M. Perlaza, and H. Vincent Poor
cs.IT math.IT