# SANNet: A Semantic-Aware Agentic AI Networking Framework for Multi-Agent Cross-Layer Coordination

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18946 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.18946/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Agentic AI for wireless networks, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 6 of its 11 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 May 2025.

## Placed in

- LLM agents and tool use / [Agentic AI for wireless networks](https://mlsanity.com/agents/agentic-ai-for-wireless-networks/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Agent AI: Surveying the Horizons of Multimodal Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.03568/) (2024)
- [Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.02462/) (2023)
- [Three-Way Trade-Off in Multi-Objective Learning: Optimization, Generalization and Conflict-Avoidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.20057/) (2023)
- [Towards Agentic AI Networking in 6G: A Generative Foundation Model-as-Agent Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.15764/) (2025)
- [6G Network AI Architecture for Everyone-Centric Customized Services](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09944/) (2022)
- [Towards an AI/ML-driven SMO Framework in O-RAN: Scenarios, Solutions, and Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.05092/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [SANet: A Semantic-aware Agentic AI Networking Framework for Cross-layer Optimization in 6G](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.22579/) (2025)
- [SANEmerg: An Emergent Communication Framework for Semantic-aware Agentic AI Networking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.05861/) (2026)
- [Towards Agentic Test-Driven Quality Assurance for 6G Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.23285/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Agentic AI networking (AgentNet) is a novel AI-native networking paradigm that relies on a large number of specialized AI agents to collaborate and coordinate for autonomous decision-making, dynamic environmental adaptation, and complex goal achievement. It has the potential to facilitate real-time network management alongside capabilities for self-configuration, self-optimization, and self-adaptation across diverse and complex networking environments, laying the foundation for fully autonomous networking systems in the future. Despite its promise, AgentNet is still in the early stage of development, and there still lacks an effective networking framework to support automatic goal discovery and multi-agent self-orchestration and task assignment. This paper proposes SANNet, a novel semantic-aware agentic AI networking architecture that can infer the semantic goal of the user and automatically assign agents associated with different layers of a mobile system to fulfill the inferred goal. Motivated by the fact that one of the major challenges in AgentNet is that different agents may have different and even conflicting objectives when collaborating for certain goals, we introduce a dynamic weighting-based conflict-resolving mechanism to address this issue. We prove that SANNet can provide theoretical guarantee in both conflict-resolving and model generalization performance for multi-agent collaboration in dynamic environment. We develop a hardware prototype of SANNet based on the open RAN and 5GS core platform. Our experimental results show that SANNet can significantly improve the performance of multi-agent networking systems, even when agents with conflicting objectives are selected to collaborate for the same goal.