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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 568240, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/568240
Research Article
A Wireless Sensor Network System with a Jumping Node for Unfriendly Environments
School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Received 24 December 2011; Accepted 16 May 2012
Academic Editor: Jiming Chen
Copyright © 2012 Jun Zhang 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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