Pattern Nulling of Linear Antenna Arrays Using Backtracking Search Optimization Algorithm

Table 8

NDL and MSL values obtained by BSA and other optimization techniques PSO [15], HSA [35], and QPM [15] for 32-element linear antenna array with imposed one null at 9°.

	BSA (Figure 14)	PSO [15]	HSA [35]	QPM [15]
NDL (dB)	−107.50	−62.06	−88.08	−34.74
MSL (dB)	−20.50	−18.71	−19.51	−17.73