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The work described in this paper presents an original hierarchical protocol based on the Partitioned Binary Search Tree (PBST*). PBST* is a new tree-based scalable distributed data structure. The principal feature of the proposed protocol is the organization of WSN as a balanced tree with one root at the base station (BS). Moreover, the protocol proposes a new technique to avoid the hot spot problem...