Award Abstract #0087344
An Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Performance Aspects of a High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network
NSF Org: |
OCI
Office of CyberInfrastructure
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Initial Amendment Date: |
August 11, 2000 |
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Latest Amendment Date: |
September 4, 2003 |
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Award Number: |
0087344 |
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Award Instrument: |
Continuing grant |
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Program Manager: |
Kevin L. Thompson
OCI Office of CyberInfrastructure
O/D OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
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Start Date: |
August 15, 2000 |
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Expires: |
July 31, 2005 (Estimated) |
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Awarded Amount to Date: |
$2762230 |
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Investigator(s): |
Hans-Werner Braun hwb@hpwren.ucsd.edu (Principal Investigator)
Frank Vernon (Co-Principal Investigator)
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Sponsor: |
University of California-San Diego
Office of Contract & Grant Admin
La Jolla, CA 92093 858/534-0246
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NSF Program(s): |
NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, ADVANCED NET INFRA & RSCH
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Field Application(s): |
0206000 Telecommunications
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Program Reference Code(s): |
HPCC,9251,9217,1087
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Program Element Code(s): |
4091,4090
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ABSTRACT
An unresolved and underdeveloped area for the evolving Internet is the issue of ubiquity. Rural areas
across the nation are affected by the lack of network access; solutions are either prohibitively expensive,
or many years away from implementation. The research and education communities have immediate
connection needs, for researchers working in remote areas (in the field, in observatories, and with
autonomous telemetry sensors) and for remote educational facilities, at reasonable performance levels to
the Internet.
The goal of this project is to create a substantial and robust wireless backbone network for bidirectional
traffic flows by expanding upon a prototype connection recently installed by the Measurement and Network
Analysis Group of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) and the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), as well as the School of
Engineering and its Center for Wireless Communications (CWC).
This proposal is a collaboration between network researchers and disciplinary researchers in geophysics,
and other fields. Multiple different users with different impacts will help to define and understand
requirements, as well as appropriate parameters for the implementation of a high performance wireless
networking environment, with high performance extending beyond raw speed and including aspects of
predictability, as well as spacial and temporal availability. The project is heavily leveraged with the existing
network measurement and analysis activity of NLANR, as well as the seismic measurement and analysis
activities at SIO.
The immediate impact of providing services to researchers and telemetry stations in the field and a delivery mechanism for distance education in disadvantaged areas (in San Diego County) is clear. This network will have the technological capability to accommodate a high volume of data (for both communications and telemetry), thus increasing the scope and area of many projects currently limited by these constraints. The wireless network's primary function as an applied test bed to address distance access issues over a
relatively large rural area in general, and to assess performance characteristics of such a network will result in long-term developments and advances in the area of Internet technology.
The impact of this Internet Technologies project will be substantial and wide-spread. Benefits to the
research and education communities - and ultimately, the public - include improved functional capabilities
(across a variety of disciplines), facilitated collaborations between institutions, better and more reliable
network access, and a prototype which can be emulated throughout rural areas in the U.S.
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