Research Article

LNNLS-KH: A Feature Selection Method for Network Intrusion Detection

Table 7

The features of NSL-KDD dataset.

Classification of featuresNumberSerial number and name of features

The basic characteristics of TCP connections9(1) duration, (2) protocol_type, (3) service, (4) flag, (5) src_bytes, (6) dst_bytes, (7) land, (8) wrong_fragment, (9) urgent

The content characteristics of a TCP connection13(10) hot, (11) num_failed_logins, (12) logged_in, (13) num_compromised, (14) root_shell, (15) num_root, (16) su_attempted, (17) num_file_creations, (18) num_shells, (19) num_access_files, (20) num_outbound_cmds, (21) is_host_login, (22) is_guest_login

Time-based statistical characteristics of network traffic9(23) count, (24) srv_count, (25) serror_rate, (26) srv_serror_rate, (27) rerror_rate, (28) srv_rerror_rate, (29) same_srv_rate, (30) diff_srv_rate, (31) srv_diff_host_rate

Host-based network traffic statistics10(32) dst_host_count, (33) dst_host_srv_count, (34) dst_host_same_srv_rate, (35) dst_host_diff_srv_rate, (36) dst_host_same_src_port_rate, (37) dst_host_srv_diff_host_rate, (38) dst_host_serror_rate, (39) dst_host_srv_serror_rate, (40) dst_host_rerror_rate, (41) dst_host_srv_rerror_rate