Pattern synthesis is a significant research focus in smart antennas due to its extensive use in
several radar and communication systems. To improve the optimization performance of …

In this article, the design of circular antenna arrays (CAAs) and concentric circular antenna
arrays (CCAAs) of isotropic radiators with optimum side lobe level (SLL) reduction is studied …

In this paper, new virtual antenna array (VAA) based synthesis techniques are introduced for
side lobe level (SLL) reduction, beam thinning, and number of elements minimization for …

This paper proposes an artificial neural network (ANN)-based synthesis method for
nonuniform linear arrays with mutual coupling effects. The proposed method can …

Pattern synthesis is widely used in many radar and communication systems and received
great interest. So, this paper proposes a new beamforming strategy based on a hybrid …

Evolutionary optimization techniques with multiple objectives are applied to the design of
microstrip antennas. The biologically inspired algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization …

The synthesis of pencil beam and arbitrarily shaped beam patterns of linear antenna arrays
(LAA) using reduced number of antenna elements attracts the attention of researchers in …

In cognitive radio (CR), the sensitivity of the spectrum sensing (SS) algorithms depends
mainly on several factors such as the receiver sensitivity, the antenna gain, the antenna …

The number of elements reduction in different antenna array configurations such as linear,
circular, rectangular, planar, and non-planar is of main concern for several research groups …

This paper introduces a novel antenna array synthesis for radar systems based on the
concept of a virtual antenna array (VAA) and the method of moments/genetic algorithm …