This document discusses the AODV routing protocol, black hole attacks against AODV, and analyzing AODV's performance under black hole attacks. It introduces AODV, explains why it is used, and outlines security issues. It then defines distributed denial of service (DDoS) and black hole attacks, describing how black holes work at the routing level to drop packets. The document concludes it will use a network simulator to analyze how black hole attacks affect AODV performance metrics.