The Low-Altitude Wireless Network (LAWN) focuses on reconfigurable, multi-functional wireless infrastructures that operate below ~3000 m to support drones, eVTOLs, and emerging urban-air-mobility services. By jointly designing communication, sensing, navigation, control, and edge intelligence, LAWN leverages shared spectrum, hardware, and signal processing to deliver sub-10 ms command-and-control latency, centimetre-level situational awareness, and reliable payload links in dense, dynamic, and GNSS-challenged airspaces. The AESS LAWN TWG aims to foster foundational research, applied innovation, standardization alignment, and community building around 3-D airspace networking for safe, resilient, and economically transformative low-altitude operations.
Key objectives include:
- Advancing co-design frameworks that tightly integrate communications, sensing, navigation, control, and mission-level inference for autonomous air operations.
- Developing aerospace-tailored waveforms, robust modulation, and scheduling for high-Doppler, vibration-rich, and multipath-dense channels, with joint optimization for data links and sensing.
- Establishing open datasets, benchmarks, and testbeds, and running design challenges and summer schools to enable reproducible research and talent development
- Organizing special sessions, tutorials, and seminar series across AESS and sister societies to catalyze cross-disciplinary exchange and technology transfer.
- Supporting standards and policy engagement with IEEE SA, RTCA, ICAO, SAE/EUROCAE, FAA/EASA/CAAC, etc., to align technical advances with airspace safety and certification pathways.
- Strengthening aerospace cyber-physical security for the LAWN to ensure robust operation in contested environments.
- Promoting collaboration across academia, industry, and government, ensuring broad geographic and demographic representation in LAWN research and leadership.
