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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 213598, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/213598
Research Article

An Online Relay Selection Scheme in Power Controllable Wireless Sensor Networks

Jing Deng,1 Scott C.-H. Huang,2 and Yunghsiang S. Han3

1Department of Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA
2Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
3Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan

Received 21 February 2012; Accepted 25 May 2012

Academic Editor: Rajgopal Kannan

Copyright © 2012 Jing Deng 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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