Design of a fully digital controlled reconfigurable switched beam concentric ring array antenna using firefly and particle swarm optimization algorithm

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B

Volumn , Issue 36, 2011, Pages 113-131

  Chatterjee, A ^a   Mahanti, G K ^a   Chatterjee, Arindam ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ELEMENTS; CONCENTRIC RINGS; DESIGN CRITERION; DISCRETE PHASE; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; RADIAL PHASE; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA ARRAYS; SWITCHED BEAMS; TWO BEAMS;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 83355177639     PISSN: 19376472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERB11083005     Document Type: Article

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