eprintid: 10189477 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/94/77 datestamp: 2024-03-21 17:47:21 lastmod: 2024-03-21 17:47:21 status_changed: 2024-03-21 17:47:21 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Meng, Chenfeng creators_name: Zhang, Yongwei creators_name: Temiz, Murat creators_name: El-Makadema, Ahmed title: A Multiobjective Array Beamforming Method for Arrays of Flexible Shape ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F46 keywords: array; beamforming; interference suppression; null-steering; particle swarm optimization; pattern synthesis note: Copyright © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: High-performance beamforming incorporating multiple objectives for large-scale antenna arrays becomes increasingly important to improve the capacity and efficiency of wireless communication systems. The speed of synthesizing a desired beam pattern is critical in wireless communications systems to adapt to highly dynamic wireless channels. A modified particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for synthesizing array beam patterns is proposed in this study. The initial positions of particles in PSO are designated following a Taylor distribution instead of being given uniformly distributed random values as in the classical PSO algorithm. The fitness functions are defined to include multiple objectives represented by producing multiple main lobes with customized deep and broadened nulls. Several scenarios have been established to examine the feasibility of the proposed algorithm. Moreover, the performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with those of the ones based on the classical PSO. A significant performance improvement for obtaining beamforming coefficients has been achieved. The robustness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated further by applying it to a finite array on a curved surface for beamforming. date: 2024-02-02 date_type: published publisher: MDPI official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13040752 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2255541 doi: 10.3390/electronics13040752 lyricists_name: Temiz, Murat lyricists_id: MTEMI29 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: [National Natural Science Foundation of China] full_text_status: public publication: Electronics volume: 13 number: 4 article_number: 752 pages: 24 issn: 2079-9292 citation: Meng, Chenfeng; Zhang, Yongwei; Temiz, Murat; El-Makadema, Ahmed; (2024) A Multiobjective Array Beamforming Method for Arrays of Flexible Shape. Electronics , 13 (4) , Article 752. 10.3390/electronics13040752 <https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13040752>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189477/1/electronics-13-00752-v2.pdf