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Table 4 A part of features in the NSL-KDD dataset

From: MAFSIDS: a reinforcement learning-based intrusion detection model for multi-agent feature selection networks

Feature name

Feature short description

Duration

Length (number of seconds) of the connection

Protocol_type

Type of the protocol

Service

Network service on the destination

src_bytes

Number of data bytes from source to destination

dst_bytes

Number of data bytes from destination to source

Flag

Normal or error status of the connection

Land

1 if connection is from/to the same host/port;

0 otherwise

……

……

Urgent

Number of urgent packets

Num_failed_logins

Number of failed login attempts

Num_access_files

Number of operations on access control files

diff_srv_rate

Percent of connections to different services

Label

Network Traffic Attribution Categories

  1. The first column is the name of the feature
  2. The second column is the description corresponding to the feature