2. DESIGN CHALLENGES IN MANET
MANET exhibits unique features like open medium, dynamic topologies, bandwidth
constrained, variable capacity links, energy constrained operation, limited physical security
MANETs hence attracted by the attackers. The nodes in the MANET are vulnerable to all kinds
of attacks launched through compromised node. Constraints in bandwidth, computing power,
and battery power in mobile devices can lead to application specific trade-offs between security
and resource consumption of the device.