*3.1.1. Monitoring component*

The reputation system operation starts by the execution of monitoring component. Monitoring component is responsible for collecting behavior information by direct observation of neighbor's activities. In this work, we are concerned only in routing activities and, more specifically, in packet forwarding, i.e. monitoring whether a router is forwarding a packet or not. After a monitoring node detects some misbehavior, it reports its observation as a quantity to the rating component.
