Relation between the number of broadcasts of probe packets and energy consumption in multi-hop wireless networks

In multi-hop wireless networks, if we know the packet reception rates of all links in the network, we can find the path with the minimum energy consumption. However, to obtain the packet reception rates with high accuracy, we need a number of exchanges of probe packets. Also, the energy consumption along a path depends on a routing method. In this paper, we consider three routing methods and evaluate the relation between the number of broadcasts of probe packets and the total energy consumption along the paths selected by these methods.