Real-world applications in the communications industry - when do we resort to Differential Evolution?

This paper describes various real-world design applications from the communications & measurement industry that have been solved by Differential Evolution (DE). The commonalities of these applications are discussed, and the characteristics are identified that gave rise to a DE-based design. It is further laid out which requirements need to be fulfilled to make DE more widespread and which expectations towards DE-research exist in the communications & measurement industry.