Another valuable contribution to mitigating black hole
attacks is the use of multipath routing. With a multipath routing
scheme, more than one routes from source to destination are
established to provide load balancing and/or fault tolerance
[13]. Ganesan et al. suggest a multipath routing mechanism
that aims to rapidly identify alternate paths between source
and destination [14]. This approach could potentially be used
to mitigate the effects of black hole attacks but does not seek
to identify the actual malicious node that was participating in
the routing misbehaviour in the first place. An ideal solution
needs to not only alleviate the problem but also mitigate the
cause of the problem