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 |