Request Flooding attack keeps flooding the network with a lot of requests to the fake nodes that do not exist in the network. There are different forms of Flooding attacks, and the most common form is the request one.
Flooding attack is one of DoS attacks that aim to exhaust the network resources by flooding the network with a lot of fake packets and messages. Security in MANET is an essential task in preventing the harm that could be caused by malicious nodes in the network.