At MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei will unveil three key capabilities of its Agentic Communication Network (ACN): digital identity management, dynamic group communication, and collaboration task session management. These capabilities are designed to support the complex communication needs of future multi-agent collaboration and drive innovation in new service scenarios for the mobile AI era.
As AI technologies become deeply integrated with communications networks, hundreds of millions of AI agents will gradually connect to networks and become primary entities for information exchange.
To address this trend, Huawei's ACN enhances native network capabilities, transforming traditional connection infrastructure into a powerful communication and collaboration foundation for AI agents. The ACN creates an efficient, intelligent "information overpass" for agents operating in both physical and digital spaces.
Digital Identity Management: Assigning Unique Trusted Digital Identities to Agents to Build a Trusted and Controllable Communication Basis for Agents
To accommodate large-scale agent access, ACN extends beyond traditional SIM-based user identity management to support digital identity authentication and attribute registration for agents. Agents can register their profiles, including service capabilities and functional attributes, with the network. When a service intent is triggered, ACN can accurately discover target agents and grant communication permissions based on multi-dimensional attributes.
This mechanism ensures both parties have trusted identities, clear intent, and controllable behavior. In practical terms, it means agents know who they're communicating with, what each can do, and that they can trust one another. This lays the foundation for refined communication management between agents.
Dynamic Group Communication: Creating Task-specific Communication Groups to Build a Secure Space for Efficient Collaboration and Data Isolation
Traditional networks primarily support north-south connections between terminals and service platforms. However, agent collaboration scenarios significantly increase demand for east-west interactions between agents.
The ACN enables data exchange and processing between agents directly within the network. Based on specific collaboration tasks, ACN dynamically generates temporary networks for rapid communication between agents in the same task group, while ensuring complete network isolation between different groups. By creating temporary "dedicated chat groups" for each task, ACN achieves efficient collaboration within groups and full isolation outside them. This approach prevents data from leaving the network domain, ensures privacy protection, and builds trusted, controllable communication spaces for agents.
Collaboration Task Session Management: Establishing End-to-End Task Sessions for Agent Intent to Build a Bridge for Cross-Ecosystem Agent Interconnection
Beyond providing data connectivity, ACN enables task-level collaboration between agents. Based on agent intent, ACN supports intelligent matching of target agents and establishes agent-to-agent (A2A) task sessions, achieving end-to-end collaboration from the application layer to the network layer.
This capability breaks down barriers between ecosystems, terminal types, and network domains. ACN functions as a precise network dispatcher, creating dedicated "collaboration private lines" for agents that support interconnection and interworking across domains, platforms, and scenarios.
Looking ahead, Huawei will continue driving ACN technology innovation while working with global customers and industry partners to explore new service scenarios for agents in the mobile AI era, helping agents integrate more seamlessly into our daily lives.
During MWC2026, Huawei invites global customers and partners to visit the exhibition area to discuss the future of agent communication.
MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.
The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.
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Source: https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/3/mwc-acn-network
