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. 2022 Jan 16;78(6):8946–8976. doi: 10.1007/s11227-021-04241-1

Table 2.

Extracted twenty-three significant network traffic features from network flows

Features Description
“Max packet length” Maximum length of packet
“Min packet length” Minimum length of packet
“Fwd packet length min” Min. packet size in the forward direction
“Fwd packet length max” Max. packet size in the forward direction
“Average packet size“ Avg. size of packets
“Packet length std” Standard deviation of packet length
“Fwd packet length std” Standard deviation of packet length in forward
“Total length of fwd packets” Packet size in forward
“Fwd packets/s” No. of packets forwarded in a second
“Flow IAT min” Min. time between two packets in flow
“Flow IAT mean” Mean time between two packets in flow
“Flow IAT max” Max. time between two packets in flow
“Fwd IAT total” Total time between two packets in forward
“Fwd IAT mean” Mean time between two packets in forward
“Fwd IAT max” Max. time between two packets in forward
“Min seq size forward” Minimum seqment size in the forward direction
“Sub flow fwd bytes” Avg. number of bytes in a sub-flow in the forward direction
“Destination port“ Port number which receives packets
“ACK flag count” Number of packets with ACK
“Init win bytes forward” Number of bytes initially in the window in the forward direction
“Fwd header length” Header length of forwarded packets
“Protocol” Protocol of flow
“Flow duration” Duration of flow