ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we explore some of the existing malicious attacks against MANETs and also the techniques to detect them. First, we provide the background that takes an overview on the taxonomy of various attacks against MANETs. Then, we predominantly focus on how the networking and transport layer attacks are carried out against MANETs and how we may deal with such attacks. We also put forward the future research directions and emphasize the need for an intrusion detection system that may be appropriated with the requirements of MANETs and other ad hoc networks, and that would be able to detect not a specific type of attacks, but various blends of threats.
