Patent Document ID: 20030227931
Application ID: 10304428
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A network comprising: a cluster, comprising a plurality of network nodes arranged in a hierarchical tree arrangement, the hierarchical tree arrangement comprising: a cluster head network node at a root position of the hierarchical tree arrangement, and a number of layers each including one or more of the plurality of network nodes, wherein each kth layer is identified by a layer number k that indicates a number of hops from network nodes in the kth layer to the cluster head; wherein, network nodes in at least each kth layer except for a last layer of the cluster that are children of a particular parent in a k-1th layer are identified by addresses that are assigned by a skipping a number Cskip that is substantially equal to a first number divided by a maximum permissible number of network nodes in the kth layer, wherein the first number is equal to a number of network address allocated for network nodes in the kth layer plus a number of network addresses allocated for network nodes that are decedents of network nodes in the kth layer.