A PSO-driven spline-based shaping approach for ultrawideband (UWB) antenna synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 8 II, 2008, Pages 2613-2621

  Lizzi, Lizzi ^a   Viani, Federico ^a   Azaro, Renzo ^a   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna synthesis; Particle swarm optimizer (PSO); Spline representation; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIFICATIONS; SPLINES; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA SYNTHESIS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZER; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZER (PSO); SHAPE DESCRIPTORS; SPLINE REPRESENTATION; SYNTHESIS PROBLEMS; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; ULTRA-WIDE-BAND ANTENNAS; ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB); UWB SYSTEMS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 49549119729     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.927544     Document Type: Article

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