The increasing availability and versatility of aerial platforms—particularly low-altitude drones—have opened up new possibilities for for exploring and utilizing the vertical spaces. This has led to the emergence of Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs) as a promising paradigm that redefines how connectivity, sensing, and control can be integrated and deployed in three-dimensional environments.

In particular, LAWNs are not limited to aerial communications alone; they integrate multi-drone collaboration, real-time environmental perception, and closed-loop autonomous control to enable dynamic three-dimensional network reconfiguration. By overcoming ground coverage limitations and supporting adaptive topology adjustments, LAWNs facilitate tight cross-domain integration of sensing, communication, and control. These capabilities are critical for emerging applications such as distributed aerial sensing, swarm coordination, precision agriculture, and ultra-low-latency command execution in mission-critical scenarios.

The aim of this Special Interest Group (SIG) is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss the major technical challenges, recent breakthroughs, and novel applications of LAWNs. 

• Real-time channel measurement and modeling for low-altitude drone-to-ground and drone-to-drone links

• Fundamental capacity and performance limits in LAWNs under mobility and resource constraints

• Integrated communication, control, and sensing frameworks for multi-drone networks

• Resource allocation and scheduling for multi-drone coordination

• Signal processing techniques for LAWN transceivers

• AI-assisted network management and decision-making in dynamic LAWN environments

• Multi-access and interference management schemes in dense aerial networks

• Cross-layer protocol design for real-time and energy-constrained LAWN applications

• System-level simulation, field test platforms, and drone-in-the-loop evaluation

• Network architecture and protocol stack design for scalable LAWN deployment

• Security, reliability, and robustness in mission-critical LAWN scenarios

• Applications of LAWNs in emergency response, aerial IoT, and industrial automation