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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 954398, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/954398
Research Article

A Network Coding Based Rarest-First Packet Recovery Algorithm for Transmitting Geocast Packets over Hybrid Sensor-Vehicular Networks

Tz-Heng Hsu and Ying-Chen Lo

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan, Taiwan

Received 27 October 2011; Revised 8 January 2012; Accepted 11 January 2012

Academic Editor: Tai Hoon Kim

Copyright © 2012 Tz-Heng Hsu and Ying-Chen Lo. 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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