AIMM-Edge 2026 | First Workshop on AI-Native Media Delivery over Edge-Cloud Systems

About AIMM-Edge 2026

As new classes of (immersive, interactive, and personalised) media services emerge, next-generation media delivery systems are met with new challenges and need to deliver this content efficiently and intelligently across distributed edge-cloud infrastructures. To achieve this cost-effectively at scale and across hybrid infrastructures, novel approaches are required.

                Next-generation media delivery systems must be able to reason about the media service intent, the underlying infrastructure, and the user context, and then translate this into coordinated actions across transport selection, cache placement, compute scheduling, content adaptation, and network steering.
            

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 management, and quality of experience (QoE).

Topics Covered

Topics of interest 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
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

Important Dates

Milestone	Date
Workshop Papers Submission Deadline	August 14, 2026
Notification of Acceptance	September 11, 2026
Camera-Ready Deadline	September 18, 2026

Paper Submission Details

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished high-quality research papers aligned with CNSM workshop policy.

Format: IEEE 2-column conference style
Paper Length: Maximum 6 pages, including references
Publication: Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore, subject to CNSM policies.

Submit Paper via EDAS

Organization & TPC

Workshop Chairs

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

Technical Program Committee (TPC)

Chris Needham BBC R&D and W3C Director

Edward Austin Lancaster University

Lucas Pardue Cloudflare & IETF QUIC Chair

John Ellerton BT Media and Broadcast, SMPTE UK Chair

Adrian Farrel ODC, IETF CATS Chair

Charalampos Rotsos Lancaster University

Oscar Dios Gonzales Telefonica

Admin Contacts

Daniel King, Lancaster University
Edward Austin, Lancaster University