Cascade-based attack vulnerability on the US power grid

Safety Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1332-1336

  Wang, Jian Wei ^a   Rong, Li Li ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Attack; Cascading failure; Critical threshold; Tunable parameter; US power grid

Indexed keywords

ATTACK; CASCADING FAILURE; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; TUNABLE PARAMETER; US POWER GRID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

POWER GENERATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69249240176     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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