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creators_name: Rocca, Paolo
creators_name: Manica, Luca
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: An Effective Excitation Matching Method for the Synthesis of Optimal Compromises between Sum and Difference Patterns in Planar Arrays
ispublished: pub
subjects: TU
full_text_status: public
keywords: Planar Arrays, Compromise patterns, Sum and difference modes, Direct acyclic graph
abstract: In this paper, the extension of the Contiguous Partition Method (CPM) from linear to planar arrays is described and assessed. By exploiting some properties of the solution space, the generation of compromise sum-difference patterns is obtained through an optimal excitation matching procedure based on a combinatorial method. The searching of the solution is carried out thanks to an efficient path-searching algorithm aimed at exploring the solution space represented in terms of a graph. A set of representative results are reported for the assessment as well as for comparison purposes. The final version of this article is available at the url of the journal PIERB http://www.jpier.org/PIERB/
date: 2008-01
date_type: published
institution: University of Trento
department: informaticat
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Rocca, Paolo and Manica, Luca and Massa, Andrea  (2008) An Effective Excitation Matching Method for the Synthesis of Optimal Compromises between Sum and Difference Patterns in Planar Arrays.  [Technical Report]     
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