A Novel System Paradigm for Self Growing Wireless Networks This paper introduces a novel paradigm for autonomic and self-managing wireless communication networks denoted herein as 'self-growing' and 'purpose-driven'. In this it is focusing on a specific convergence of wireless communication networks supporting machine-to-machine communication and sensor networks for control and monitoring applications based on reconfigurable network nodes and topologies, and dedicated to enable versatile use of a deployed network infrastructure. The reconfiguration capacity of network nodes (e.g., available wireless interfaces, software radio modules, sensor or actor modules, protocol stacks, software and hardware interfaces ...) and of the network (e.g., topologies supported, collocation and implementation of services, connectivity, routing ...) determines the target purposes that can be attained by a system implementing the approach presented. While it can easily be understood that a functional change of nodes and network can be achieved be soft-reconfiguration, increasing the node density in this example requires a degree of (network-assisted) planning. That is, physically adding nodes to the network might require human interaction but temporarily 'acquiring' or 'utilizing' nodes of a collocated network may be well within the capacity of autonomic reconfiguration.