An Efficient and Effective Approach for Flooding Attack Detection in Optical Burst Switching Networks

Table 3

Rank score of IG feature selection method for all features in the dataset.

Feature name	Feature no.	Average rank	Average merit
Packet received	13	1.8 ± 1.17	1.402 ± 0.079
10-run-AVG-drop-rate	17	4.1 ± 1.64	1.306 ± 0.06
Flood status	21	4.2 ± 1.78	1.309 ± 0.052
Used bandwidth	9	4.3 ± 3.66	1.285 ± 0.191
10-run-AVG-bandwidth-use	18	4.3 ± 1.62	1.282 ± 0.122
Received byte	16	5.3 ± 3.35	1.241 ± 0.163
Packet lost	14	6.7 ± 3.32	1.175 ± 0.15
Packet drop rate	3	9.3 ± 2	1.053 ± 0.083
Packet received rate	8	9.8 ± 1.6	1.018 ± 0.043
Percentage of lost byte rate	7	9.8 ± 1.08	1.018 ± 0.044
Utilized bandwidth rate	2	10 ± 2.32	1.05 ± 0.074
Percentage of lost packet rate	6	10.8 ± 1.08	1.009 ± 0.017
Average delay time	5	12 ± 2.79	0.9 ± 0.19
Reserved bandwidth	10	12.8 ± 1.66	0.899 ± 0.1
Node status	20	14.9 ± 0.3	0.488 ± 0.004
10-run-delay	19	16.2 ± 0.98	0.36 ± 0.104
Full bandwidth	4	17.2 ± 0.6	0.146 ± 0.007
Transmitted byte	15	17.7 ± 0.46	0.146 ± 0.007
Packet transmitted	12	18.8 ± 0.6	0.146 ± 0.007
Node	1	20.1 ± 0.3	0.017 ± 0.006
Packet size byte	11	20.9 ± 0.3	0 ± 0