[nmrg] Innovative Management Techniques for Media Delivery over Edge-Cloud (@ IEEE CNSM)

["King, Daniel" <[e-mail]>]

Hi NMRG'rs, 

I just wanted to give a heads up on an IEEE workshop we are organising later this year. 

We would love to hear industry and academic perspectives on using advanced management techniques for media delivery, especially using Agentic technologies. If you are involved in a project or prototyping and would like to submit a paper, please see more details below. If you would like to attend a panel session or provide a poster on your research, prototyping deployment for multi-media, we would also like to hear from you. 

I'm at IETF 126 all week, so feel free to reach out if you would like more information on the workshop or submission guidelines. 

More details below:

AIM-Edge 2026: Agentic and AI-Native Media Delivery over Edge-Cloud First Workshop on AI-Native Media Delivery over Edge-Cloud Systems. Co-located with CNSM October 2026, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain.

Media systems are entering an agentic era, in which autonomous AI agents, able to reason, plan, and act with limited human intervention, operate the networks, platforms, and services that deliver media. By agentic and AI-native, we mean media delivery systems designed from the ground up around such agents and learning-driven control loops, rather than having AI bolted onto existing operational silos. AIMM-Edge 2026 invites research and operational experience papers on the management, orchestration, and observability of agentic and AI-native media delivery across edge-cloud infrastructures, spanning transport, CDN coordination, autonomous service and resource management, and quality of experience.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- AI-native management and orchestration of media operations
- Design and evaluation of interactive, immersive, and personalised media systems
- Autonomous cloud service and infrastructure management
- Edge-cloud orchestration and compute-aware delivery
- Multi-agent systems for cooperative CDN traffic engineering, caching, steering, and cross-provider management
- Optimisation of low-latency transport protocols (HTTP/3, QUIC, WebTransport) and next-generation adaptive streaming
- QoE-aware optimisation and closed-loop control
- Compute Aware Traffic Steering
- Carbon-aware and energy-efficient service deployment and media delivery
- Observability and intent-driven telemetry for complex, agent-managed media pipelines
- Intent-based agentic media management

Submission Information

- Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=35572
- Format: IEEE 2-column conference style#
- Paper length: maximum 6 pages, including references, aligned with CNSM workshop policy
- Publication: accepted papers submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore, subject to CNSM policies

Important Dates
- Workshop papers submission deadline: August 14, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: September 11, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: September 18, 2026

Workshop Chairs
- Yehia Elkhatib, University of Glasgow
- Nicholas Race, Lancaster University
- Rajiv Ramdhany, BBC R&D

Admin Contacts
- Daniel King, Lancaster University
- Edward Austin, Lancaster University