Guest Editorial: Low-Altitude Wireless Networks: Sensing, Connectivity, and Agentic Intelligence

The airspace field in the range of 3,000 meters and below becomes a new operating domain for the digital economy. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cooperative swarms, and urban air mobility platforms are moving from isolated demonstrations toward persistent roles in public safety, logistics, infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, and emergency response. Yet a low-altitude wireless network (LAWN) cannot be built by simply lifting a terrestrial network into the sky. Three-dimensional mobility continually reshapes topology and propagation; sensing and control actions affect the network state they depend on; and limited payload, energy, and computing resources must coexist with stringent requirements for latency, reliability, security, and safety.