Proactive Alleviation Procedure to Handle Black Hole Attack and Its Version

Table 2

Effectiveness of attack countermeasures.

Attacks	AODV	DSR	SAODV	ARAN	ARIADNE	SEAD	SAR
Black hole	V	PV	V	V	V	V	NV
Wormhole	V	PV	V	V	V	V	V
Rushing attack	V	V	NV	NV	NV	NV	V
Resource depletion	V	V	V	V	V	NV	NV
Gray hole	V	V	PV	PV	NV	V	NV
Sinkhole	V	V	V	V	V	V	V
DoS	V	V	V	V	NV	NV	V

V: vulnerable.
PV: partially vulnerable.
NV: not vulnerable.