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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 301750, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/301750
Research Article

A Secure Cluster Formation Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks

Gicheol Wang,1 Dongkyun Kim,1 and Gihwan Cho2

1Department of Advanced KREONET Service, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea
2Division of Computer Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Republic of Korea

Received 15 June 2012; Accepted 11 September 2012

Academic Editor: Mihui Kim

Copyright © 2012 Gicheol Wang 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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