Are there so many sons per node in a wireless sensor network data aggregation tree?

Mário Macedo. Are there so many sons per node in a wireless sensor network data aggregation tree?. IEEE Communications Letters, 13(4):245-247, 2009. [doi]

@article{Macedo09,
  title = {Are there so many sons per node in a wireless sensor network data aggregation tree?},
  author = {Mário Macedo},
  year = {2009},
  doi = {10.1109/LCOMM.2009.082003},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2009.082003},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/Macedo09},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
  volume = {13},
  number = {4},
  pages = {245-247},
}