The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) is a National Science Foundation funded network research project, which also functions as a collaborative cyberinfrastructure on research, education, and first responder activities. It includes creating, demonstrating, and evaluating a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. The network includes backbone nodes at the UC San Diego and San Diego State University campuses, and a number of "hard to reach" areas in remote environments.

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A short video related to a recent HPWREN update shows Michael Peralta describing TDVnet collaborations.

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Recent highlights


Sensors and Native Americans June 16, 2009
New directions in collaborations between HPWREN and Native Americans

Extended collaborations between HPWREN and Native Americans now include networked sensors and environmental cameras.


Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) June 15, 2009
HPWREN is Key Partner in New Palomar Transient Factory Sky Survey

Astronomers using telescopes at Palomar Observatory and around the globe have begun an innovative sky survey that will be used to detect unprecedented numbers of powerful cosmic explosions and other transient events. The survey also may soon reveal new classes of astronomical objects.


Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) June 14, 2009
HPWREN Aids the Study of Dark Cosmic Explosions

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most colossal explosions in the universe. They signal the explosive deaths of massive stars and are bright enough to be visible from a distance of 13 billion light years. Most of these events are accompanied by a bright visible light afterglow that can be seen for up to several afters after the GRB, yet a few of them are mysteriously dark. Recent findings, announced at this week's meeting of the American Astronomical Society, have shed new light on the study of these mysterious events known as dark GRBs.


Edoardo Regini June 12, 2009
HPWREN-supported UCSD Master's student Edoardo Regini finished his "Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks" thesis, and will graduate in Fall '09

A graduate student researcher supported by HPWREN, Edoardo Regini, recently finished his UCSD Master's degree thesis on a combined scheduling and routing mechanism for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks.


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  Acknowledgments and Disclaimer

HPWREN is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional UC San Diego research and education project, led by Principal Investigator Hans-Werner Braun at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. A Co-Principal Investigator, Frank Vernon, is with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

HPWREN is funded by the National Science Foundation: Grant Numbers 0087344 and 0426879. The U.S. government has certain rights to the related material presented on this web site. If you use the HPWREN network or data from this server, your derivative publications or other information materials must make a credit reference to the National Science Foundation Grant Numbers 0087344 and 0426879, as well as the HPWREN project at the University of California, San Diego.
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HPWREN is an NSF funded research project, which intends to research the feasibility of wireless data networking technologies. As such, HPWREN offers no guarantees regarding network services. In addition, network security and privacy, as well as the appropriateness of Internet data, are the sole responsibility of the connected entities. HPWREN monitors traffic for research and network management purposes, and usage details may become publicly available. Should the network be used inappropriately, HPWREN reserves the right to disconnect sites.
The Usage Conditions document governs acceptable use of the network.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed on the HPWREN web site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or anyone else.

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