The evolution toward fully autonomous telecommunications networks (Autonomous Network Levels 4-5) requires AI/ML agents to make real-time network decisions without human intervention. However, no standardized runtime mechanism exists to intercept and validate individual inference outputs before they trigger live network state changes, creating risks of erroneous autonomous decisions.
arXiv:2607. 02210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evolution toward fully autonomous telecommunications networks (Autonomous Network Levels 4-5) requires AI/ML agents to make real-time network decisions without human intervention.
The paper introduces EvidenceNet, a runtime assurance layer designed to verify that coordinated AI agent operations achieve an operator’s intended network-wide outcomes across multiple administrative domains. EvidenceNet collects post-change observations from the required authority scopes, checks their freshness and validity, and uses a verifier agent to assess observation content. Experiments on live routing networks demonstrate that this approach can detect successful outcomes that configuration-action logs alone miss, and it rejects completions when observations are sourced incorrectly, substituted, or stale.
arXiv:2607. 29405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems act through multi-step trajectories that combine planning, tool use, memory, interaction, and adaptation.
arXiv:2608. 15016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network incident response remains slow and labor-intensive as the defender must infer multi-stage attacks from partial observations and translate recovery decisions into reliable system commands.
arXiv:2606. 20510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Securing AI agents that operate in complex digital environments has become a critical need, and runtime monitoring approaches that formulate and enforce policies expressed in a formal language like Datalog offer a promising solution.
arXiv:2609.13731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition from passive foundation models to autonomous, goal-directed agentic AI systems has introduced unprecedented capabilities by coupling rec...
arXiv:2608. 04018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly embedded in organizational workflows, where they interact with external information sources and invoke digital tools to perform operational tasks.
arXiv:2606. 09122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud network infrastructure at hyperscale presents unique operational challenges where traditional human-driven incident response cannot keep pace with the volume, velocity, and complexity of failures.
arXiv:2605. 17909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As autonomous agentic systems scale across regulated critical infrastructures, the lack of mechanistic, hardware-rooted enforcement for high-frequency policy updates presents a fundamental safety gap.
arXiv:2607. 18548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic artificial intelligence systems, capable of autonomous perception, planning, tool use, and multi-step action, are increasingly proposed for critical engineering domains where decisions carry physical, operational, or economic consequences.
arXiv:2609.06835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems execute complex tasks through long-horizon workflows of planning, tool use, and multi-agent coordination. Task failures in these s...
arXiv:2607. 18267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition to sixth-generation (6G) networks transforms wireless infrastructure into a cognitive substrate supporting Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), Industrial IoT (IIoT), and Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC).