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.

  Project overview materials

2008 summary video
2006 brochure
2003 brochure

  Image of the week -- (images from previous weeks):

Storage for old but re-usable HPWREN antennas.

  Frequently used pointers


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Recent highlights


10 years HPWREN February 3, 2010
Ten Years of Reducing The Gap: Bringing Speed and Reach to Remote America

HPWREN's origins are now more than ten years in the past, with a first actual site survey by the team having been at Mount Woodson on February 3, 2000. This is a short summary about the HPWREN project.


2009 YE7 January 8, 2010
Yale University uses an "HPWREN-South" to discover new astronomical objects

Yale University is now operating the 160 megapixel camera full-time on the 1.0-meter ESO Schmidt telescope at La Silla in Chile. Last December, four new distant objects were detected, including 2009 YE7, which is a likely new dwarf planet near the size of Quaoar.


StSS December 25, 2009
Third Sea to Shining Sea Live Interactive Virtual Explorations workshop held in Connecticut

The third Sea to Shining Sea Live Interactive Virtual Explorations workshop was held on November 19, 2009 at the National Park Service's National Association for Interpretation annual conference in Hartford, CT.


Eris discovery December 18, 2009
HPWREN helps Palomar Make the List of the Decade's Top 10 Discoveries

Discovery News has put out their list of the Top 10 Discoveries of the Decade and their list of Top 10 Space Discoveries of the Decade. On both lists is the 2005 discovery of the world known as Eris.


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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, 0426879 and 0944131. 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, as well as the HPWREN project at the University of California, San Diego.
Minimum credit line: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu

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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