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Table 4 Some selected features in NSL-KDD

From: Transfer learning for detecting unknown network attacks

Feature name

Description

Feature category

Duration

Duration of the connection

Basic features

Src_bytes

Data bytes from source to destination

Basic feature

Dst_bytes

Data bytes from destination to source

Basic feature

Num_failed_logins

Number of incorrect login in a connection

Content feature

Srv_count

Sum of connections to the same destination port number

Traffic feature

Serror_rate

Percentage of connections that have “SYN” errors among the connections to the same host in the past 2 s

Traffic feature

Srv_serror_rate

Percentage of connections that have “SYN” errors among the connections to the same destination port in the past 2 s

Traffic feature

Dst_host_count

Sum of connections to the same destination IP address

Traffic feature

Dst_host_same_srv_rate

The percentage of connections that were to the same service, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_count

Traffic feature