An interdisciplinary collaboration University of California, San Diego High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network An interdisciplinary collaboration University of California, San Diego http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/
HPWREN project objectives focus on access networks for research and education applications fixed or temporary installations wide area wireless high performance access emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration non-commercial prototype network to demonstrate feasibility research to understand application performance requirements
Project participants and collaborators Funded by the National Science Foundations Networking Division (ANIR) Led by the UCSD’s San Diego Supercomputer Center and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Science applications Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Geophysics -- earthquake sensors San Diego State University, Astronomy department Mt. Laguna Observatory San Diego State University, Ecology Ecology field stations (Santa Margarita and Sky Oaks) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and California Institute of Technology Palomar Observatory Education applications Pala Indian Reservation and Pala Fire Station La Jolla Indian Reservation Rincon Indian Reservation San Pasqual Indian Reservation Hewlett Packard Digital Village award to the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association Collaborations with crisis management and other agencies
Network architecture high performance backbone network commercially available 45Mbps duplex point-to-point radios backbone nodes at “quality” locations, including UPS fairly large antennas (8’, 6’, or 4’) network performance monitors at backbone sites high speed access links commercially available 802.11b radios some 45Mbps access links access nodes at individual sites point-to-point or point-to-multipoint small (~2’ X ~3’) grid antennas some sites include local performance monitors network statistics available at http://stat.hpwren.ucsd.edu/
ANZA Seismic Network -- 1999
Earthquake sensor and data collector on Toro Peak
IGPP Real-Time Systems ANZA Seismic Network (1981-present) 13 Broadband Stations 3 Borehole Strong Motion Arrays 5 Infrasound Stations 1 Bridge Monitoring System Kyrgyz Seismic Network (1991-present) 10 Broadband Stations IRIS PASSCAL Transportable Array (1997-Present) 15 - 60 Broadband and Short Period Stations
IRIS PASSCAL Wireless Telemetry Array Continuous real-time telemetry 15-60 Stations Integrate with other real-time data sources Deployments 1997-8 Colorado 1998-9 South Africa 1999-2000 Montana-Wyoming 2001 - Parkfield, California
HPWREN topology -- October 2001 Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve Palomar Observatory Pala Indian Reservation Rincon Indian Res. La Jolla Indian Reservation San Pasqual Indian Reservation Mt. Laguna Observatory UCSD Backbone node Science site Researcher location Education site Incident mgmt. site
SDSU’s Mt. Laguna astronomy observatory
High speed backbone plus MLO North Peak Stephenson Peak Mt Laguna Observatory Mt Woodson UCSD/SDSC
Palomar Observatory
Red Mountain, CDF tower
May 2001 Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve
Toro Peak, 8700’ Salton Sea Boyd Deep Canyon Pinyon Flats
Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
Example earthquake sensors in the desert
Initial Pala Indian Reservation connection Mt. Woodson Initial Pala Indian Reservation connection Pala Learning Center Mt. Woodson UCSD/SDSC
La Jolla Indian Reservation connection Palomar Mountain relay site La Jolla learning center Mt. Woodson UCSD/SDSC La Jolla Indian Reservation connection
La Jolla relay site on Palomar Mountain
Video cameras
Researchers in the field antenna mounted on tripod connected to laptop PCMCIA card no external power or equipment
February 2001, CDF demonstration
Inmarsat satellite antenna Multi-agency crisis management demo 28 August 2001 Sharp Hospital relay site Inmarsat satellite UCSD HPWREN Internet connection at SDSC network- controllable video camera 64kbps ISDN link mobile weather station DARPA ENCOMPASS Server at SSC Inmarsat ground station Inmarsat satellite antenna National Guard Armory SSC Deployable Communications Support Terminal
Tribal Digital Village project Native American activity building up on HPWREN Funded by Hewlett Packard Awarded to the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association HPWREN is collaborator, and not the service provider Objective of a utility architected and operated by Native Americans
San Diego County Native American Reservations Pala Pauma Los Coyotes La Jolla Rincon San Pasqual Mesa Grande Santa Ysabel Inaja Cosmit Captain Grande Barona Cuyapaipe Vieja Manzanita La Posta Campo Sycuan Jamul
San Diego County Indian Reservations ---- backbone network Pala Pauma Los Coyotes La Jolla Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Rincon San Pasqual Mesa Grande Santa Ysabel Inaja Cosmit Cluster 3 Cuyapaipe Barona Captain Grande Vieja Cluster 4 Manzanita La Posta Campo Sycuan Jamul
ROADNet Real-time Observatories Applications and Data management Network San Diego Supercomputer Center Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California at San Diego
Project Research Yosemite Coastal Studies Deep Ocean Snowpack Climate Coastal Studies Pollution Erosion Deep Ocean Weather Ecological Reserves CO2 Monitoring Watershed Geophysical Monitoring GPS Seismic HPWREN Wireless telemetry Network Analysis Data Management Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Data sharing Personalized Virtual Sensor Networks Information Discovery System
Information Technology Research Goals XML based integration and dissemination of information Continuous archives Access control systems Efficient, scalable sensor networks Wireless and high bandwidth technologies Network design flexibility
Earthscope -USArray, PBO, SAFOD, InSar Virtual Seismic Network Planning Issues: Realtime telemetry Data Integration Processing Archiving