This document summarizes a student's research proposal titled "Investigating the effects of black hole attack in MANET under 802.11b and TDMA Protocols". The student, Muhammad Saleh Bhutto, proposes to use the Network Simulator 2 (NS2) to simulate a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) under black hole attacks using different MAC protocols (TDMA and 802.11b) with the AODV routing protocol. The objectives are to study the impacts of black hole attacks on network performance metrics like network load, throughput, packet loss and delay, and to determine which MAC protocol is more vulnerable. Literature on black hole and other attacks in MANETs will be reviewed. NS2