Sensor nodes are also limited by processing power and
battery life. Running the ADP more frequently leads to more
processor utilization and thus greater demand on the battery.
To reduce energy consumption the ADP can be triggered less
frequently, but this introduces the risk that attacks will go
undetected between runs of a node’s ADP. This concern is
mitigated when we consider that there are several nodes in a
neighbourhood and each node would run its ADP at a different
time, thus the network as a whole would be able to detect
attacks in a shorter time than the lowest ADP interval on the
network.