Evaluating the damage associated with intentional network disintegration

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 433-439

  Levitin, G ^a,b   Gertsbakh, I ^c   Shpungin, Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d SAMI SHAMOON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attack; Damage; Defense; Disintegration; Network; Protection; Two dimensional destruction spectrum; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ATTACK; DAMAGE; DEFENSE; NETWORK; PROTECTION; VULNERABILITY;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NETWORK SECURITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DISINTEGRATION;

EID: 79251631054     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.12.022     Document Type: Article

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