Ant colony optimisation for tree-searching-based synthesis of monopulse array antenna

Electronics Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 783-785

  Rocca, P ^a   Manica, L ^a   Stringari, F ^a   Massa, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BINARY TREES; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STRUCTURES; ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY; FILE ORGANIZATION; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; TECHNOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ANT COLONIES; ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION (ACO); ANTENNA ARCHITECTURE; ARRAY ANTENNAS; FEED NETWORKS; IN ORDER; MINIMUM COSTS; MONO PULSE RADAR; MONOPULSE (CO); PHYSICAL SPACE; SYNTHESIS (OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS); TREE GRAPH;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 45749142836     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20081045     Document Type: Article

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