On the design of maximally sparse beamforming arrays

The problem of designing nonuniformly spaced arrays is formulated as one of constrained optimization in which the cost function is chosen to select the array with the minimum number of elements. The response of the array is controlled by a set of inequality point response constraints. It is shown that a suitable cost function for this problem is the l/sub p/ quasi-norm for 0 >

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