Optimal Trade-Off Phased-Arrays for Future Generation Radars and Communication Systems

Recent advances on the synthesis and design of unconventional arrays for future generation radar and communications systems are presented in this work. The proposed methodologies are aimed at simplifying the array beam forming network (BFN) by means of innovative clustering$/$ tiling strategies, jointly pursuing the goal of limiting the unavoidable reduction of the array performance in terms of (l) radiation pattern features and (ii) link Quality-of-Service $(QoS)$. Selected numerical examples are reported in order to prove the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

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