The node degree distribution in power grid and its topology robustness under random and selective node removals

2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Zhifang ^a   Scaglione, Anna ^b   Thomas, Robert J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Davis   (United States)

^c School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Node degree distribution; Power grid; Topology robustness

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL NODE; DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES; GEOMETRIC RANDOM VARIABLES; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; NODE DEGREE; NODE DEGREE DISTRIBUTION; POWER GRIDS;

POWER GENERATION; REMOVAL; TOPOLOGY;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 77954891059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2010.5503926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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