Shaped-beam pattern synthesis of equally and unequally spaced linear antenna arrays using a modified tabu search algorithm

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-20

  Akdagli, Ali ^a   Guney, Kerim ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Linear antenna arrays; Pattern synthesis; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

LINEAR ANTENNA ARRAYS; MODIFIED TABU SEARCH ALGORITHM; PATTERN SYNTHESIS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0037419560     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.10657     Document Type: Article

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