In the field of wireless communication, antenna array plays an important role as it improves the gain, directivity, coverage area alongside provides beamsteering capability to the network that is an essential part of a 5G communication system. Antenna array pattern synthesis has received significant importance in communication as it aims at obtaining the radiation pattern close to the desired pattern. In antenna array excitation amplitude, excitation phase and distance between antenna elements are three parameters that can be optimized to obtain radiation pattern with minimum side lobe level, optimum null depth, and desired beamwidth. Metaheuristic algorithms are high-level search algorithms that have widely been explored for pattern synthesis of different array configuration. In this article author has discussed and compared the performance of different metaheuristic algorithms for uniform linear array (ULA), circular, concentric ring, conformal and planar antenna array pattern synthesis.

在无线通信领域，天线阵列发挥着重要作用，因为它提高了增益、方向性、覆盖范围，同时为作为 5G 通信系统重要组成部分的网络提供波束控制能力。天线阵列方向图合成在通信中具有重要意义，因为它旨在获得接近所需方向图的辐射方向图。在天线阵列中，激励幅度、激励相位和天线元件之间的距离是三个可以优化的参数，以获得具有最小旁瓣水平、最佳零深度和所需波束宽度的辐射方向图。元启发式算法是高级搜索算法，已广泛探索用于不同阵列配置的模式合成。