ABSTRACT

The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN)
team is creating, demonstrating, and evaluating a non-commercial,
prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San
Diego county. The NSF-funded network includes backbone nodes on
the UC San Diego campus and a number of "hard to reach" areas in
San Diego county. The HPWREN is not only used for network analysis
research, but also provides high-speed Internet access to field
researchers from several disciplines (geophysics, astronomy, ecology)
and educational opportunities for rural Native American learning
centers.