Synthesis of large monopulse linear arrays through a tree-based optimal excitations matching

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 436-439

  Rocca, P ^a   Manica, L ^a   Martini, A ^a   Massa, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Large linear arrays; Monopulse antennas; Sum and difference pattern synthesis; Tree searching algorithm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES; DIFFERENCE PATTERNS; FAST PATH; LARGE ARRAYS; LINEAR ARRAYS; MONOPULSE; MONOPULSE ANTENNA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL EXCITATION; OPTIMAL PATHS; SEARCHING ALGORITHMS; SOLUTION SPACE; SYNTHESIS PROBLEMS; TRACKING APPLICATION; TREE-BASED; TREE-BASED APPROACH;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; ARRAY PROCESSING; BINARY TREES; OPTIMIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 63149117862     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2007.906298     Document Type: Article

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