Specification of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Protocol for the Exchange of IP Traffic Flow Information

By Benoit Claise. Request for Comments, 2008

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Towards the Deployment of Machine Learning Solutions in Network Traffic Classification: A Systematic Survey (2019, background): “according to [47], is a set of packets or frames in the network that can be intercepted at a point in the network during a time interval.”
Flow Monitoring Explained: From Packet Capture to Data Analysis With NetFlow and IPFIX (2014, methodology): “Variable-length encoding can be used for IEs with a variable length in IPFIX, despite of IPFIX’ template mechanism being optimized for fixed-length IEs [1].”
A Survey of Random Forest Based Methods for Intrusion Detection Systems (2018, methodology): “…sFlow – maintained by the sFlow Consortium (sFlow 2003); (ii) NetFlow – developed by Cisco Systems (NetFlow 1995); and (iii) IPFIX – the IP Flow Information eXport is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, which has NetFlow as its basis (Aitken et al. 2013; Claise and Trammell 2013).”
An Overview of IP Flow-Based Intrusion Detection (2010, methodology): “This article follows the definition of IP flow as it was described by the IPFIX (IP Flow Information Export) working group within IETF [10], [22]:”
A Survey of Network-based Intrusion Detection Data Sets (2019, methodology): “Typical flow-based formats are NetFlow [41], IPFIX [40], sFlow [42] and OpenFlow [43].”