Risk-aware attacks and catastrophic cascading failures in U.S. power grid

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Wenkai ^a   Cai, Qiao ^b   Sun, Yan ^a   He, Haibo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack; Cascading failure; Power grid; Risk Analysis

Indexed keywords

ATTACK; CASCADING FAILURES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CRITICAL LEVEL; NODE FAILURE; POWER GRID NETWORKS; POWER GRID SYSTEM; POWER GRIDS; RISK LEVELS;

COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84863117924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6133788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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