misrelay

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verb

To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

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

present singular third person misrelays · participle present misrelaying · participle past misrelayed · past misrelayed

  1. To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.

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

    1999, Health Law: Adaptable to Courses Utilizing Furrow, Johnson, Jost and Schwartz's Casebook on Health Law, page 87
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    He had misrelayed Mercy's number, but he had given Crawford all the information he needed to make his fortune serious.

    2011, Imogen De La Bere, The Welcoming Committee

    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.

    2020, Sho Konishi, Anarchist Modernity, page 182
nounmisrelay (plural misrelays)

plural misrelays

  1. computingThe modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.

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

    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
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    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.

    2010, Vinu V Das, R. Vijayakumar, Narayan C. Debnath, Information Processing and Management, page 430

    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.

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

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