misrelay

verb

1. To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.

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

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

   “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

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

   “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.”

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

   “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.”