“…This study shows that although predominant data acquisition middleware frameworks [22,41,42,33,15,8,13,24,38,20,7] have succeeded in decreasing the overall energy consumption of the network by introducing power-aware innetwork processing algorithms, they have overlooked the important parameter of the underlying network topology. In particular, most of the approaches establish query dissemination and data acquisition on the premise of Query Routing Trees (QRTs) constructed in an ad hoc manner [22,41,32] where each sensor selects as its parent the first node from which a query was received.…”