1. An interdisciplinary collaboration University of California, San Diego
High Performance Wireless
Research and Education
Network
An interdisciplinary collaboration
University of California, San Diego

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 b 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

5. ANZA Seismic Network -- 1999

6. Earthquake sensor and data collector on Toro Peak

7. 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)
Broadband and Short Period Stations

8. IRIS PASSCAL Wireless Telemetry Array
Continuous real-time telemetry
15-60 Stations
Integrate with other real-time data sources
Deployments
Colorado
South Africa
Montana-Wyoming
Parkfield, California

9. 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

10. SDSU’s Mt. Laguna astronomy observatory

11. High speed backbone plus MLO
North Peak
Stephenson Peak
Mt Laguna
Observatory
Mt Woodson
UCSD/SDSC

12. Palomar Observatory

13. Red Mountain, CDF tower

14. May 2001 Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve

15. Toro Peak, 8700’
Salton Sea
Boyd Deep Canyon
Pinyon Flats

16. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center

17. Example earthquake sensors in the desert

18. Initial Pala Indian Reservation connection
Mt. Woodson
Initial Pala Indian Reservation connection
Pala Learning Center
Mt. Woodson
UCSD/SDSC

19. La Jolla Indian Reservation connection
Palomar
Mountain
relay site
La Jolla
learning
center
Mt. Woodson
UCSD/SDSC
La Jolla Indian Reservation connection

20. La Jolla relay site on Palomar Mountain

21. Video cameras

22. Researchers in the field
antenna mounted on tripod
connected to laptop PCMCIA card
no external power or equipment

23. February 2001, CDF demonstration

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. ROADNet Real-time Observatories Applications and Data management Network
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California at San Diego

29. 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

30. 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

32. Earthscope -USArray, PBO, SAFOD, InSar
Virtual Seismic Network
Planning Issues:
Realtime telemetry
Data Integration
Processing
Archiving