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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 230198, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/230198
Research Article

Data Gathering in Opportunistic Wireless Sensor Networks

Yongxuan Lai1 and Ziyu Lin2

1Department of Software Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
2Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China

Received 23 July 2012; Revised 24 September 2012; Accepted 2 October 2012

Academic Editor: Ruchuan Wang

Copyright © 2012 Yongxuan Lai and Ziyu Lin. 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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