Robustness of the western United States power grid under edge attack strategies due to cascading failures

Safety Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 807-812

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

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Attack strategy; Cascading failure; Critical threshold; Load; Power grid

Indexed keywords

ATTACK STRATEGIES; CASCADING FAILURES; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; LOAD; POWER GRID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION;

COMPUTER CRIME;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CASCADING FAILURE; EDGE LOAD MODEL; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRICITY; MODEL; PERFORMANCE; POWER GRID; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS; SAFETY; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955650803     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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