A Review of Attacks on Ad Hoc On Demand Vector (AODV) based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETS)

MANETs consist of mobile nodes that communicate with each other via radio waves using multiple hops to establish connections from the source to destination. Due to the inherent mobile nature of the nodes, routing these networks presents a challenge. Many researchers have designed and developed routing algorithm is, which have been classified into various categories, of which the most prominent classifications are proactive, reactive and hybrid.This paper presents a brief overview of the AODV protocol and the various types of attacks that can be performed on MANETs with a special mention to Flooding Attacks And Distributed Denial of