TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiation pattern shaping of a mobile base station antenna array using a particle swarm optimization based technique
AU - Zaharis, Z. D.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - A new technique of shaping the radiation pattern of an antenna array is presented. The technique aims at finding the appropriate geometry of the antenna array as well as the excitation of the array elements in order to produce a radiation pattern of the desired shape. A suitable optimization procedure is applied using a particle swarm optimization algorithm. The technique has been successfully applied to collinear arrays and seems to be suitable for beam- forming of antenna arrays used by mobile communications base stations.
AB - A new technique of shaping the radiation pattern of an antenna array is presented. The technique aims at finding the appropriate geometry of the antenna array as well as the excitation of the array elements in order to produce a radiation pattern of the desired shape. A suitable optimization procedure is applied using a particle swarm optimization algorithm. The technique has been successfully applied to collinear arrays and seems to be suitable for beam- forming of antenna arrays used by mobile communications base stations.
KW - Antenna array synthesis
KW - Antenna beam-forming
KW - Base station antennas
KW - Particle swarm optimization
KW - Radiation pattern shaping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=41049112112&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00202-007-0078-y
DO - 10.1007/s00202-007-0078-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:41049112112
VL - 90
SP - 301
EP - 311
JO - Archiv für Elektrotechnik
JF - Archiv für Elektrotechnik
SN - 0948-7921
IS - 4
ER -