High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network An interdisciplinary collaboration Funded by the National Science Foundation University of California, San Diego Hans-Werner Braun, Principal Investigator http://hpwren.ucsd.edu

Creating, Demonstrating, & Evaluating HPWREN Current Topology December 2001

Creating, Demonstrating, & Evaluating HPWREN Astronomy Ecology Field Research Applications Geophysics

Creating, Demonstrating, & Evaluating HPWREN Rural Native American Learning Centers and Remote Schools Astronomy Education Applications

Creating, Demonstrating, & Evaluating HPWREN 45 Mbps Backbone High-speed Access Links 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 Analysis Research network statistics available at http://stat.hpwren.ucsd.edu/

Initial high speed backbone plus MLO North Peak Stephenson Peak Mt Laguna Observatory Mt Woodson UCSD/SDSC

Example earthquake sensors in the desert

Earthquake sensor and data collector on Toro Peak

SDSU’s Mt. Laguna astronomy observatory

Palomar Observatory

Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve

Toro Peak, (8k’+) Salton Sea Boyd Deep Canyon Pinyon Flats

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

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 Cuyapaipe Barona Captain Grande Vieja Manzanita La Posta Campo Sycuan Jamul

San Diego County Native American Reservations -- TDVnet concepts 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

Diffusion of networked infrastructure reservation reservation reservation reservation Internet connection backbone link to other cluster area Cluster area reservation backbone link to other cluster area

TDVNet Cluster 1 relay Mt. Woodson HPWREN Backbone site Pala Learning Center and Fire Station San Pasqual relay and Resource Center Rincon Education and TANF lab

Mt Woodson to Pala, Rincon and San Pasqual Indian Res. ID12 Ch6 ID2 Ch11 Ch11 Pala Firestation Pala relay ID3 Ch6 Ch11 Ch11 San Pasqual ResourceCtr ID4 Ch11 Ch11 San Pasqual relay San Pasqual Firestation ID2 Ch6 ID3 Ch11 Rincon TANF San Pasqual Rsrc-Ctr AP ID6 Ch1 Rincon EdCtr C1-2-relay C1-1-relay switch port 0/14 MtWoodson

Demonstrations and Exploratory Work Crisis Management Coastal Studies antenna mounted on tripod connected to laptop PCMCIA card no external power or equipment

Yagi antenna on tripod yagi antenna amplifier tripod antenna cable to power injector

February 2001, CDF demonstration

May 2001, CENIC networking conference SDSC at UCSD 3.1 miles 4.5 miles Mt. Soledad relay site Paradise Point conference site

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

June 2001, SIO Pier -> Black’s Beach Scripps Pier Black’s Beach Everyone’s happy!

Evaluating HPWREN Social Impacts Research Community Education Community

Evaluating HPWREN Social Impacts M.A. Thesis Project: HPWREN’s Impacts on Ecological Field Research Concentration: DoI/SIA Users: Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve field researchers Perceived Attributes: Relative Advantage, Compatibility, Complexity Tools: Experiment/ Surveys

High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network An interdisciplinary collaboration Funded by the National Science Foundation University of California, San Diego Hans-Werner Braun, Principal Investigator http://hpwren.ucsd.edu