An Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Performance Aspects of a High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network

对于不断发展的互联网来说，一个尚未解决和未开发的领域是无处不在的问题。全国各地的农村地区都受到缺乏网络接入的影响;解决方案要么过于昂贵，要么需要多年才能实施。研究和教育界对在偏远地区工作的研究人员（在野外、在观测站和使用自动遥测传感器）和远程教育设施有着直接的连接需求，需要以合理的性能水平连接到互联网。 该项目的目标是通过扩展由国家应用网络研究实验室（NLANR）和圣地亚哥超级计算机中心（SDSC），斯克里普斯海洋研究所（SIO），以及工程学院及其无线通信中心（CWC）。 该建议是网络研究人员与物理学和其他领域的学科研究人员之间的合作。具有不同影响的多个不同用户将有助于定义和理解高性能无线网络环境的实施要求以及适当的参数，高性能超出原始速度，包括可预测性以及空间和时间可用性方面。该项目与NLANR的现有网络测量和分析活动以及SIO的地震测量和分析活动密切相关。 向实地的研究人员和遥测站提供服务以及为贫困地区（圣地亚哥县）的远程教育提供机制的直接影响是显而易见的。这一网络将具有容纳大量数据（通信和遥测）的技术能力，从而扩大目前受这些限制的许多项目的范围和面积。无线网络的主要功能是作为一个应用试验台，解决一般较大的农村地区的远程接入问题，并评估这种网络的性能特点，这将导致互联网技术领域的长期发展和进步。 这个互联网技术项目的影响将是巨大的和广泛的。对研究和教育界--最终对公众--的好处包括提高功能能力（跨各种学科）、促进机构之间的合作、更好和更可靠的网络访问以及可以在美国整个农村地区效仿的原型。

An unresolved and underdeveloped area for the evolving Internet is the issue of ubiquity. Rural areasacross 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 immediateconnection needs, for researchers working in remote areas (in the field, in observatories, and withautonomous telemetry sensors) and for remote educational facilities, at reasonable performance levels tothe Internet. The goal of this project is to create a substantial and robust wireless backbone network for bidirectionaltraffic flows by expanding upon a prototype connection recently installed by the Measurement and NetworkAnalysis Group of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) and the San DiegoSupercomputer Center (SDSC), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), as well as the School ofEngineering 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 understandrequirements, as well as appropriate parameters for the implementation of a high performance wirelessnetworking environment, with high performance extending beyond raw speed and including aspects ofpredictability, as well as spacial and temporal availability. The project is heavily leveraged with the existingnetwork measurement and analysis activity of NLANR, as well as the seismic measurement and analysisactivities 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 arelatively 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 theresearch and education communities - and ultimately, the public - include improved functional capabilities(across a variety of disciplines), facilitated collaborations between institutions, better and more reliablenetwork access, and a prototype which can be emulated throughout rural areas in the U.S.