Research Article

Machine-Learning Approach to Optimize SMOTE Ratio in Class Imbalance Dataset for Intrusion Detection

Table 4

Five main categories of KDD CUP 1999 dataset.

AttacksDescriptions

NormalNormal traffic
DoSDenial of service, e.g., syn flood
R2LUnauthorized access from a remote machine, e.g., guessing password
U2RUnauthorized access to local superuser (root) privileges, e.g., various “buffer overflow” attacks
ProbingSurveillance and other probing, e.g., port scanning