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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 565604, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/565604
Research Article

An Adaptive Opportunistic Network Coding Mechanism in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Hang Shen,1,2 Guangwei Bai,1,2,3 Lu Zhao,1 and Zhenmin Tang1

1Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and System for High-Dimensional Information of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
2State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
3Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, China

Received 5 September 2012; Accepted 21 November 2012

Academic Editor: Ruchuan Wang

Copyright © 2012 Hang Shen 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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