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(d) Interrogation: Here the attacker exhausts a node’s resources by repeatedly sending RTS
messages for receiving CTS responses from the targeted node under attack. To put a
defense against such type of attacks, a node can limit itself in accepting connections from
the same identity or use anti-replay protection and strong MAC–layer authentication [9,12].
15.2.3 attackS in network layer
The attacker in this layer can send a huge amount of packets containing false routes so as to over-
ow the neighbors, resulting in routing tables containing fake data. This can be prevented by using
packet leashes to the routing packet for restricting its transmission beyond some constraints. Some ...