December 31, 2023
The History of HPWREN: A Retrospective from 2023
This overview describes the evolution of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) Project. HPWREN originated as a wide-area wireless communications research project at the dawn of this millennium. Initially limited to San Diego County in support of Internet data applications in the rese arch and education domains, it evolved over time. A substantial collaboration with first responder agencies emerged from at first very informal discussions, when those agencies as sisted with HPWREN's need to deploy routers and wireless links on mountain tops.