The NSL-KDD V2 is an extended version of NSL-KDD original dataset. The dataset is normalised and 1 additional class is synthesised by mixing multiple non-benign classes.
To cite the dataset, please reference the original paper with DOI: 10.1109/SmartNets61466.2024.10577645. The paper is published in IEEE SmartNets and can be accessed
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382034618_Blender-GAN_Multi-Target_Conditional_Generative_Adversarial_Network_for_Novel_Class_Synthetic_Data_Generation.… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/abluva/NSL-KDD-V2.