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To further reduce the system overhead, this paper discusses the joint design of antenna selection and adaptive beamforming for multiband antenna arrays, where the sidelobe level is also controlled so as to alleviate the effect of unknown sporadic interference. Based on the maximum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) criterion and sidelobe level constraints, the proposed multiband sparse array design is formulated into a nonconvex constrained nonlinear optimization problem with an l0,2-mixed norm regularization. This problem ensures that the same antenna positions are selected at all operating frequencies while the beamformer weights of each frequency are optimized independently. By exploiting the semi-definite relaxation and the reweighted l1,\u221e-norm approximation, the problem is converted into a series of convex subproblems and is then effectively solved by the proposed iterative reweighted method. 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