Research Article

Extension of Research on Security as a Service for VMs in IaaS Platform

Table 1

Description of 11 traffic structure features.

IDFeature nameDescription

1access_portThe entropy of port count accessed by each client IP and corresponding probability of occurrence
2ip_entroEntropy with proportion of every communicated IP
3service_port_entroThe entropy of access service port
4syn_rateThe proportion of packets with SYN flag in all packets
5bpsBytes per seconds of VM
6ppsPackets per seconds of VM
7packet_per_ipAverage packet counts of every IP
8ip_countCommunicate IP count between every time window
9syn_per_ipThe count of packets with SYN flag per IP
10bytes_per_ipAverage bytes per IP
11syn_countCount of packet with SYN flag