Moreira Bernardino, AnabelaBernardino, EugéniaSánchez-Pérez, Juan M.Gómez-Pulido, Juan A.Vega-Rodríguez, Miguel A.2025-11-042025-11-042011-10-26Anabela Moreira Bernardino, Eugénia Moreira Bernardino, Juan M. Sánchez-Pérez, Juan A. Gómez-Pulido, and Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez. 2011. Using a hybrid honey bees mating optimisation algorithm for solving SONET/SDH design problems. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL '11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 122, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/2093698.2093820978-1-4503-0913-4http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14498In this paper we propose a hybrid Honey Bees Mating Optimisation (HBMO) algorithm to solve two problems that arise in the design of optical telecommunication networks known as SONET/SDH Ring Assignment Problem (SRAP) and Intraring Synchronous Optical Network Design Problem (IDP). In SRAP the objective is to minimise the number of rings. In IDP the objective is to minimise the number of Add-Drop Multiplexers (ADMs). Both problems are subject to a ring capacity constraint. HBMO algorithm simulates the mating process of real honey bees. We apply a hybridisation of HBMO to solve these two combinatorial optimisation problems. The feasibility of Hybrid HBMO is demonstrated and compared with the solutions obtained by other algorithms from literature.engCommunication NetworksSONET Design ProblemsHoney Bees Mating Optimisation algorithmBio-inspired algorithmsconference paper10.1145/2093698.2093820