A wireless communication network includes a central node and a plurality of sub-nodes including relay nodes and terminal nodes. A method for adaptively selecting a route for communications in the network includes: generating a global routing table of the network based on a predetermined criterion, by the central node independently or in cooperation with a part of the relay nodes; generating a local routing table of each of the sub-nodes based on the global routing table, and informing the local routing tables to the respective sub-nodes to store the local routing tables in the respective sub-nodes, by the central node independently or in cooperation with a part of the relay nodes, the local routing table including paths from the corresponding sub-node to adjacent nodes; and adaptively selecting, by the sub-node, a path from the local routing table thereof for communications according to a predetermined rule.