NSF awards a $2.3 million, three-year grant to UC San Diego to create, demonstrate, and evaluate a non-commercial prototype high-performance wide-area wireless network for research and education.

HPWREN (high-performance wireless research and education network) involved a multi-institution collaboration led by Hans-Werner Braun of the NLANR group at SDSC and co-principal investigator Frank Vernon of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at SIO. Principals on the proposal were with the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) at SDSC and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). Other participants included Paul Etzel, chair of the Astronomy Department at San Diego State University (SDSU), and researchers from UC San Diego’s Center for Wireless Communications (CWC).