Research Article

Using Burstiness for Network Applications Classification

Table 3

Conventional features proposed by previous studies.

FeaturesDescription

PacketsTotal number of packets
Data_packetsTotal number of data packets
Flags_packetsTotal number of TCP flag packets
First_packetThe size of the first packet
Flow_durationThe time of the last packet subtracted by the time of the first packet
Inter_arrival_timeThe time duration of each direction divided by the total number of packets
Packets_b/packets_aA ratio of received packets to transmitted packets
Data_packets_b/data_packets_aA ratio of receiving of data packets to transmitted data packets
Flags_packets_b/Flags_packets_aA ratio of received of flags packets to transmitted of flags packets