“…Most of the initialization methods exist as an initial stage of a MAC protocol, as proposed in [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. Moreover, they are a part of a routing protocol, as exemplified in [ 13 , 14 , 15 ], or part of a node discovery protocol [ 16 ]. Furthermore, they have been proposed under the simple assumption that all nodes in a network need to be initialized at once before the network transmits and receives data for applications.…”