README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
pretty_name: NetFlow V3
language:
  - en
tags:
  - IDS
  - NIDS
  - NetFlow
  - parquet
  - cybersecurity
size_categories:
  - 10M<n<100M
configs:
  - config_name: NF-CICIDS2018
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: NF-CICIDS2018-v3.parquet

NetFlow V3

NetFlow V3 datasets for machine learning-based network intrusion detection research.

This repository republishes the NetFlow V3 datasets introduced in Temporal Analysis of NetFlow Datasets for Network Intrusion Detection Systems by Majed Luay, Siamak Layeghy, Seyedehfaezeh Hosseininoorbin, Mohanad Sarhan, Nour Moustafa, and Marius Portmann. arXiv

Description

NetFlow V3 extends earlier NetFlow datasets with temporal features for time-based analysis in NIDS research. arXiv

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original paper:

@article{luay2025temporal,
  title={Temporal Analysis of NetFlow Datasets for Network Intrusion Detection Systems},
  author={Luay, Majed and Layeghy, Siamak and Hosseininoorbin, Seyedehfaezeh and Sarhan, Mohanad and Moustafa, Nour and Portmann, Marius},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04404},
  year={2025},
  doi={10.48550/arXiv.2503.04404}
}