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IMPACT: Intent-driven Multi-agent Policy with Attention for SLO-guaranteed Microservice Migration in Cloud-edge Systems

Xinjin Li·Siru Tao·Shihan Yin·Yujian Long·Qingze Wang·Lu Cheng·Yeyang Zhou·Calvin Chang Liu·Yu Ma
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Ensuring strict tail-latency service-level objectives (SLOs) in dynamic mobile edge computing (MEC) systems remains challenging because user mobility, wireless fading, bursty workloads, and partial observability jointly undermine reliable cloud-edge orchestration. Existing microservice migration methods predominantly optimize average delay and often decouple migration from bandwidth control, leading to uncoordinated decisions, queue oscillation, and frequent high-percentile latency violations. To address this issue, we propose IMPACT, an intent-driven Agentic AI framework for cooperative microservice migration and bandwidth control in cloud-edge systems. Under centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE), each edge cloud is modeled as an autonomous agent that encodes local SLO risk, migration urgency, and computational pressure into compact, semantic intent representations. IMPACT further introduces a double-attention mechanism that first selectively aggregates relevant peer intents for efficient inter-agent communication and then filters local observations to emphasize goal-relevant state information. This design enables robust coordination under partial observability and jointly optimizes service migration and discrete uplink bandwidth allocation. Extensive experiments in 5-edge and 20-edge scenarios show that IMPACT reduces mean latency by 30-50% and tail-latency deviation by 40-70% compared with state-of-the-art factorized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and heuristic baselines, while achieving near-zero SLO violation rates under tight thresholds and energy consumption close to the best heuristic baseline. These results demonstrate that intent-driven agentic coordination provides an effective and scalable solution for SLO-aware orchestration in complex cloud-edge intelligent systems.

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Xinjin Li, Siru Tao, Shihan Yin, Yujian Long, Qingze Wang, Lu Cheng, Yeyang Zhou, Calvin Chang Liu, Yu Ma. 2026-09-21. IMPACT: Intent-driven Multi-agent Policy with Attention for SLO-guaranteed Microservice Migration in Cloud-edge Systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35818

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