Research Article

Elephant Flows Detection Using Deep Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network, Long Short-Term Memory, and Autoencoder

Table 2

Attributes of NIMS dataset.

AttributesDuration and size of the flow

Min forward interarrival timeMin backward interarrival time
Std. deviation of forward interarrival timeStd. deviation of backward interarrival time
Mean forward interarrival timeMean backward interarrival time
Max forward interarrival timeMax backward interarrival time
Min forward packet lengthMin backward packet length
Max forward packet lengthMax backward packet length
Std. deviation of forward packet lengthStd. deviation of backward packet length
Mean backward packet lengthMean forward packet length
DurationThe time taken for arrival of packets
ProtocolApplication layer protocol (HTTP and GTalk)
Total_fpacketsTotal number of bytes in forward direction
Total_fvolumeTotal volume of bytes in forward direction
Total_bpacketsTotal number of bytes in backward direction
Total_bvolumeTotal number of bytes in forward direction
Total volume of bytes backward direction
ClassElephant and mice labels