This protocol is dependent on interference, noise, distance between hosts, and desired BER. This will select route with more hops than other ro
uting algorithms (power α d^n).
This approach will significantly increases end-to-end delay. On the downside, this approach will in most cases tend to select routes with more hops than others. This is realizable due to the fact that transmission power is inversely proportional to distance. Thus,
more energy may be wasted network-wide since a larger number of nodes are now involved in routing as all nodes that are neighbours to the intermediate nodes will also be affected, unless they were in sleep mode and also if the selected routes are via specific host, the battery of this host will be exhausted quickly[8]