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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance the energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency of wireless-powered communication networks (WPCNs). In this article, we investigate an IRS-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) WPCN, where the single-antenna wireless devices (WDs) harvest wireless energy in the downlink (DL) and transmit their information simultaneously in the uplink (UL) to a common hybrid access point (HAP) equipped with multiple antennas. Our goal is to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) of all the energy-harvesting users. To make full use of the beamforming gain provided by both the HAP and the IRS, we jointly optimize the active beamforming of the HAP and the reflecting coefficients (passive beamforming) of the IRS in both DL and UL transmissions, as well as the transmit power of the WDs to mitigate the interuser interference at the HAP. To tackle the challenging optimization problem, we first consider fixing the passive beamforming, and converting the remaining joint active beamforming and user transmit power control problem into an equivalent weighted minimum mean-square error problem, where we solve it using an efficient block-coordinate descent method. Then, we fix the active beamforming and user transmit power, and optimize the passive beamforming coefficients of the IRS in both the DL and UL using a semidefinite relaxation method. Accordingly, we apply a block-structured optimization method to update the two sets of variables alternately. The numerical results show that the proposed joint optimization achieves significant performance gain over other representative benchmark methods and effectively improves the throughput performance in multiuser MISO WPCNs.

Joint Beamforming and Power Control for Throughput Maximization in IRS-Assisted MISO WPCNs