| WSN | Wireless sensor network |
| SWIPT | Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer |
| RF | Radio-frequency |
| PS | Power splitting |
| TS | Time switching |
| MIMO | Multiple-input multiple-output |
| MSE | Mean-square-error |
| AF | Amplify-and-forward |
| WMSN | Wireless multi-hop sensor network |
| EH | Energy harvesting |
| MAR | Maximum achievable rate |
| AO | Alternating optimization |
| SVD | Singular value decomposition |
| CSI | Channel state information |
| AWGN | Additive white Gaussian noise |
| ID | Information decoding |
| NP-hard | Non-deterministic polynomial-time hard |
| WIT | Wireless information transmission |