Synthesis of Cylindrical Antenna Arrays Using Simulated Annealing

Pattern optimization of cylindrical antenna arrays is proposed using the Simulated Annealing method. Although this method has been used in the literature for optimization of linear and circular arrays, the novelty in this paper consists in using it to optimize cylindrical arrays by minimizing a given cost function. The emphasis is on antenna arrays suitable for WCDMA base stations where the advantages of the optimized arrays were demonstrated by system level simulations.