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Protocols for Self-Organization of a Wireless Sensor Network† Katayoun Sohrabi, Jay Gao, Vishal Ailawadhi and Gregory J Pottie‡ Electrical Engineering Department UCLA Box 951594 Los Angeles, California, 90095-1594 {sohrabi, gao, vishal, pottie} @ Abstract We present a suite of algorithms for self-organization of wireless sensor networks, in which there is a scalably large number of mainly static nodes with highly constrained energy resources. The protocols further support slow mobility by a subset of the nodes, energy-efficient routing, and formation of ad hoc subnetworks for carrying out cooperative signal processing functions among a set of the nodes. † This research is supported by DARPA contract number F04701-97-C-0010, and was presented in part at the 37th Allerton Conference on Communication, Computing and Control, September 1999. ‡ Corresponding author. Introduction In this paper we describe an architecture for self-organizing wireless sensor-networks [1]. These are wireless ad-hoc network that connect deeply embedded sensors, actuators, and processors. This combination of wireless and data networking will result in a new form of computational paradigm which is more communication centric than any other computer network seen before. Wireless sensor networks are part of a growing collection of information technology constructs which are moving away from the traditional desktop wired network architecture towards a more ubiquitous and universal mode of information connectivity [2]. A wireless sensor network of the type investigated here refers to a group of sensors, or nodes, that are linked by a wireless medium to perform distributed sensing tasks. Connections between nodes may be formed using such media as infrared devices or radios. Wi