Resource management in 6G SAGINs: from optimization-based methods to LLM-enabled agentic decision making
1 School of Communications and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
2 School of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830000, China
  • Volume
  • Citation
    Huang Z, Xu Y, Gu B, Zhang H. Resource management in 6G SAGINs: from optimization-based methods to LLM-enabled agentic decision making. Adv. Inf. Commun. 2026(3):0012, https://doi.org/10.55092/aic20260012. 
  • DOI
    10.55092/aic20260012
  • Copyright
    Copyright2026 by the authors. Published by ELSP.
Abstract

Resource management in sixth-generation (6G) space-air–ground integrated network (SAGINs) is becoming increasingly challenging due to cross-tier heterogeneity, multi-timescale dynamics, and distributed decision making under partial and delayed information. These characteristics expose the limitations of conventional optimization-based and learning-based approaches, whose effectiveness often depends on accurate modeling, large amounts of task-specific data, or opaque policy adaptation. This article revisits the evolution of SAGIN resource management from optimization and learning to reasoning-centric, large language model (LLM)-enabled agentic intelligence. A unified taxonomy of existing paradigms is first presented, clarifying their respective strengths and limitations. The operational foundations of LLM-enabled agents (LEAs) are then introduced, including perception, memory, thought, execution, and tool-grounded decision making, followed by a discussion of emerging multi-agent frameworks for distributed orchestration. Building on this foundation, LEAs are shown to support proactive spectrum control, autonomous cross-tier routing, multi-service scheduling, and dynamic network slicing. Finally, key open challenges are identified, and future directions toward practical, trustworthy, and scalable agentic resource management in 6G SAGINs are outlined.

Keywords

6G networks; space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs); resource management; LLM-enabled agents (LEAs); multi-agent system

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