ADIOS fills some gaps in the existing literature by providing
defence against black hole attacks without relying on
cryptographic techniques or new routing protocols that may be
infeasible for some applications. ADIOS not only alleviates
the problems caused by a black hole node, but it actively
seeks to identify the malicious node responsible for the routing
misbehaviour in the first place. ADIOS also seeks to be more
robust and extensible than existing host-based IDS by utilizing
an expert system for the decision making process.