Naming Conventions¶
Paper Names¶
Each JSON file should be called data/papers/YEAR/LNAME_1STWORDS.json, with YEAR the year of the paper, LNAME the main author’s last name and 1STWORDS for the first word (or first two/three words) of the title, and this filename should be completely lowercase.
Example filename: data/papers/2016/iglesias_timeactivity.json
Feature Names¶
Feature names should in principle use the names defined in IANA’s website. However, IANA Information Elements do not cover all the features that can be extracted from packets. If this is the case for a specific feature, there are two options:
- If the feature is likely used by many other people: prefix the feature name with
_(underscore), and add it todata/own_ies.csv, if it is not already there.- If the feature is not likely to be used by other people: prefix the feature name
__(double underscore). In this case, there is not need to add it to any list.
The naming convention in both cases should try to follow IANA’s naming convention: feature names are to be descriptive and in camelcase.
Additionally, the the first case (with _) can also be used for aliases; that is, features that are used a lot but that are some kind of combination of other features.
A list of aliases is defined in data/feature_aliases.json.