“…Insometheoreticalmodelsofwirelesstransmissions,whenacommunicationisassuredbetweentwo nodes,theauthorsassumedthatallenergyisconsumedonlybythetransmitter,andthereceiverdoesn't spendanyenergyduringareception (Pešovićetal.,2010;Kheireddine&Abdellatif,2013;Cook, Meier,Sieber,Secall,&Widmer,2017).Accordingtothem,ifthisschemeistakeninconsideration, thentheshort-hopsstrategywouldbethemostenergyefficient,butsincethereceptioncostshouldn't Inotherworks,theauthorsshowedthedisadvantagesofusinglong-hopsintermsofenergy (Kheireddine, Abdellatif, & Ferrari, 2015, Jain, Saini, & Bhooshan, 2015Chung, Kim, & Han, 2012;Razaque&Elleithy,2013;Zhang,Long,Vasilakos,&Hanzo,2016).Indeed,theuseofa bigtransmissionrangebyanodehelpstotheearlydissipationofitsbattery,sincetheenergyfor transmissionisstronglylinkedtothetransmissiondistance;hencethenecessityoffindingthehops lengthsthatensuresminimalenergyconsumption.…”