“…The existing approaches are well surveyed in [ 5 ]. Hardware based LQE uses RSS (received signal strength) [ 6 , 7 , 8 ], LQI (link quality indicator) [ 9 , 10 , 11 ] and SNR (signal noise ratio) [ 12 , 13 , 14 ] as indicators while software based LQE exploits metrics such as PRR (packet reception ratio) [ 15 , 16 , 17 ], ETX (expected transmission count) [ 18 , 19 , 20 ] and 4-bit [ 2 ]. Typical work [ 2 , 3 , 18 , 21 ] takes either network layer, link layer or physical layer information as input to get the estimation of link qualities.…”