The evolution of the topology of high-voltage electricity networks

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 72-85

  Buzna, Lubos ^a,b,e   Issacharoff, Limor ^c   Helbing, Dirk ^a,d,f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILINA   (Slovakia)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^e University of Zilina ^*  (Switzerland)

^f Institute for Transport and Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electricity system; Network growth; Topology analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FAULT TOLERANCE; GROWTH RATE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TOPOLOGY;

BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; CLUSTERING COEFFICIENT; ELECTRICITY SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; NETWORK GROWTH; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOPOLOGY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 59349107257     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2009.022850     Document Type: Article

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