-its high cost in communications needed to transmit to a single node, the base
-station which will globally schedule nodes' activities, data from all the other
-sensor nodes in the area. The price in communications can be very huge since
-long range communications will be needed. In fact the larger the WNS, the higher
-the communication and thus energy cost. {\it In order to be suitable for
- large-scale networks, in the LiCO protocol the area of interest is divided
- into several smaller subregions, and in each one, a node called the leader is
- in charge for selecting the active sensors for the current period. Thus our
- protocol is scalable and a globally distributed method, whereas it is
- centralized in each subregion.}
+its high cost in communications needed to transmit to a single node, the base
+station which will globally schedule nodes' activities, data from all the other
+sensor nodes in the area. The price in communications can be very huge since
+long range communications will be needed. In fact the larger the WNS is, the
+higher the communication and thus the energy cost are. {\it In order to be
+ suitable for large-scale networks, in the LiCO protocol, the area of interest
+ is divided into several smaller subregions, and in each one, a node called the
+ leader is in charge of selecting the active sensors for the current
+ period. Thus our protocol is scalable and is a globally distributed method,
+ whereas it is centralized in each subregion.}