Wireless powered communication networks (WPC-Ns) are a promising technology supporting resource-intensive devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, their transmission efficiency is very limited over long distances. The newly emerged intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can effectively mitigate the propagation-induced impairment by controlling the phase shifts of passive reflection elements. In this paper, we integrate IRS into WPCNs to assist both the energy and information transmission. We aim to maximize the uplink (UL) sum rate of all IoT devices (IoTDs) by jointly optimizing the time allocation variable, energy beam matrix at the power transmitting base station (PTBS), receive beamforming matrix at the information receiving base station (IRBS), and the phase shifts of the IRS both in the UL and downlink (DL) subject to time allocation constraint, together with transmit power constraint for the PTBS and unit modulus constraints. This problem is very difficult to solve directly due to the highly coupled variables, which results in the optimization problem taking neither linear nor convex form. Hence, we decouple this problem into three subproblems by using the block coordinate descent (BCD) method. The UL receive beamforing matrix and phase shift are alternatively optimized in the UL optimization subproblem with fixed time allocation and the DL variables. The DL optimization subproblem is solved by the proposed successive convex approximation (SCA) algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the performance of integrating IRS and WPCNs outperforms traditional WPCNs. Besides, the results show that IRS is an effective method to preserve the tradeoff of energy efficiency and transmission efficiency in the IoT.
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