Nature-inspired cuckoo search algorithm for side lobe suppression in a symmetric linear antenna array

Radioengineering

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 865-874

  Abdul Rani, Khairul Najmy ^a   Abd Malek, Mohd Fareq ^a   Siew Chin, Neoh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Dolph chebyshev; Isotropic radiator; Linear array; Modified cuckoo search; Null control; Side lobe suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876963892     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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