A comparative study on quiescent beam pattern design techniques

This paper discusses a number of beam pattern design algorithms for non adaptive beamforming, compares them and assesses their performances for different array geometries. Three techniques for designing a beam pattern are considered of which, the Dolph-Chebychev shading belongs to the traditional class and the Griffiths and Tseng´s iterative algorithm as well as the Bell and Van Trees´ algorithm belong to adaptive array approach. The comparative study brings out the advantages and limitations of these techniques, aiding the selection of an appropriate pattern synthesis algorithm.