International Workshop on Agentic AI Networking (AgenNet)

Co-located with IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2026), Rome, Italy, May 18-22, 2026

Co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc Network Intelligence (NI) sub-committee (https://ni.committees.comsoc.org/)

Call For Papers

Agentic Artificial Intelligence (Agentic AI) represents a new generation of AI systems endowed with autonomy, adaptability, and goal-driven decision-making capabilities. Unlike traditional machine learning models that passively execute predefined tasks, agentic AI systems can actively plan, reason, and collaborate with other agents or humans to achieve complex objectives. This paradigm shift introduces new challenges and opportunities across computing and communication infrastructures, particularly when such intelligent agents must interact, negotiate, and coordinate actions in dynamic and distributed environments such as networks and the Internet.

Agentic AI Networking extends these principles to the design and operation of future communication systems and the Internet itself, where networks become active participants in decision-making processes. In such an agentic Internet, network entities, ranging from routers and virtual network functions to end devices and digital twins, are equipped with autonomous capabilities to sense, reason, and act. This transformation raises key research questions concerning interoperability, distributed intelligence, control architectures, trust, and governance in AI-driven networks. This new paradigm also provides an opportunity to revisit the architecture and the design of the Internet itself, and to evaluate whether the current architecture would still be efficient enough in a network where AI agents are the main source of user data exchange and knowledge sharing. This objective would involve the design of new network architectures, protocols, and performance metrics to support agentic AI workflow.

The AgenNet 2026 workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners to explore foundational models, architectures, protocols and applications enabling agentic AI in the Internet of the future and to discuss technical challenges, state of the art solutions, and research results. Submissions are welcomed on topics including but not limited to:

Architectures and frameworks for agentic AI networking
Distributed intelligence and coordination among networked AI agents
Multi-agent reinforcement learning and autonomous decision-making in networks
Control, orchestration, and management in agentic network infrastructures
Trust, safety, and ethical considerations in agentic AI-driven communication systems
Semantic communication and knowledge exchange among autonomous agents
Protocols and interfaces for inter-agent collaboration and negotiation
Agentic Internet architecture design and optimization
Network performance metrics in Agentic Internet
Digital twins, intent-based networking, and closed-loop control for agentic systems
Experimentation platforms, testbeds, and simulations for agentic AI networking
Use cases and applications (e.g., 6G, IoT, cloud-edge continuum, cyber-physical systems, immersive communications)

Deadlines

• Workshop paper submission deadline: January 19, 2026
• Paper acceptance notification: March 2, 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: March 16, 2026

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, with up to six pages for technical content including figures and possible references in IEEE format. All the accepted papers need to be presented at the workshop. They will be included in the workshop proceedings as well as IEEE Xplore. All submissions must be done through IEEE/IFIP NOMS JEMS3 submission page at https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms2026_agennet_workshop

Steering Committee:
Shahram Shah Heydari, Ontario Tech University, Canada
Mohamed Faten Zhani, University of Sousse, Tunisia
Hesham Moussa, Huawei, Canada
Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy