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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 151795, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/151795
Research Article

Efficient Data Dissemination in Urban VANETs: Parked Vehicles Are Natural Infrastructures

Hui Zhao and Jinqi Zhu

School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, China

Received 9 November 2012; Accepted 3 December 2012

Academic Editor: Ming Liu

Copyright © 2012 Hui Zhao and Jinqi Zhu. 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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