EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 36871, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/36871
Research Article

Mobile Agent-Based Directed Diffusion in Wireless Sensor Networks

Min Chen,1 Taekyoung Kwon,2 Yong Yuan,3 Yanghee Choi,2 and Victor C. M. Leung1

1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, BC, Canada
2School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, South Korea
3Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Received 29 November 2005; Revised 12 May 2006; Accepted 16 July 2006

Academic Editor: Deepa Kundur

Copyright © 2007 Min Chen et al. 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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