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ISRN Communications and Networking
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 860936, 10 pages
doi:10.5402/2011/860936
Research Article

Self-Aware Distributed Consensus Building for Sensor Networks

Lei Chen and Jeff Frolik

School of Engineering, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA

Received 9 August 2011; Accepted 15 September 2011

Academic Editors: M. Maier and R. Montemanni

Copyright © 2011 Lei Chen and Jeff Frolik. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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