%0 Journal Article %T Impact of Sinking Behavior in Mobile Adhoc Network %A Usha G %A Bose S %J International Journal of Ad Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing %D 2012 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Mobile adhoc networks suffer for lack of security because of its mobility of the nodes and the network is vulnerable to most of the intrusion behaviour. In this paper we analyze one of the most vulnerable behaviours known as Sinkhole behaviour. We designed architecture to effectively analyze this attack onMANET. We consider various performance metrics and attributes to understand the behaviour of this attack. From the results we can understand that this attack causes damage to the communication of Manet¡¯s.We have evaluated our results using ns-2. %K Sinkhole attack %K AODV %K Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANET). %U http://airccse.org/journal/ijasuc/papers/0612asuc07.pdf