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A Token Service Interface for AI-Native RANs

Jianan Zhang·Peng Li·Xiang Cheng
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Generative and embodied AI services exchange token streams within continuing inference and control loops. Their communication requirements depend on each token set's purpose, useful timing, and execution context. This article organizes these properties into service, temporal, and stateful semantics and proposes a token service interface (TSI) between applications, radio access networks (RANs), and edge runtimes. TSI binds delivery requirements, readiness forecasts, and execution-state references to each schedulable token set, specifying field ownership, versioned updates, and admission feedback. A drone inspection case study over a decoupled RAN illustrates importance-aware radio allocation, advance preparation for timely delivery, and selective state migration that balances interruption against forwarding delay.

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Jianan Zhang, Peng Li, Xiang Cheng. 2026-10-02. A Token Service Interface for AI-Native RANs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02618

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