misrelay

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ relay

Verb

misrelay (third-person singular simple present misrelays, present participle misrelaying, simple past and past participle misrelayed)

1. To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.
   • 1999, Health Law: Adaptable to Courses Utilizing Furrow, Johnson, Jost and Schwartz's Casebook on Health Law, page 87:

     The nurse apparently misrelayed the message, telling her to go to her doctor in Dallas.

   • 2011, Imogen De La Bere, The Welcoming Committee:

     He had misrelayed Mercy's number, but he had given Crawford all the information he needed to make his fortune serious.

   • 2020, Sho Konishi, Anarchist Modernity, page 182:

     In this translational disjuncture lay not the kind of unintended misrelaying of information that occurs in the children's game of “telephone,” but, rather, motive and method.

Noun

misrelay (plural misrelays)

1. (computing) The modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.
   • 2010, Vinu V Das, R. Vijayakumar, Narayan C. Debnath, Information Processing and Management, page 430:

     In [6], [7], the author proposed a simple mechanism to detect the link withholding and misrelay launched by MPR nodes based on overhearing of traffic generated by one-hop neighbors.

   • 2012, MS Ali, PM Jawandhiya, “Security aware routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks”, in Kamaljit I. Lakhtaria, editor, Technological Advancements and Applications in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Research Trends:

     In colluding misrelay attacks, multiple attackers work in collusion to modify or drop routing packets to disrupt routing operation in a MANET.

   • 2018, Khaleel Ahmad, Nur Izura Udzir, Ganesh Chandra Deka, Opportunistic Networks, page 206:

     A study by Kannhavong et al. (2007) shows the impact of a colluding misrelay attack on a mobile node network using OLSR as the routing algorithm.