energy from a hybrid access point (H-AP) and then transmit information to the H-AP via
nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme. The energy efficiency (EE) maximization
problem for the NOMA-based WPSN is, for the first time, formulated as a nonlinear fractional
programming, which is difficult to solve for global optimality due to the lack of convexity. To
this end, we propose two important properties for the optimal solution to the EE maximization …