A robustness metric for cascading failures by targeted attacks in power networks

2013 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 48-53

  Koc, Yakup ^a   Warnier, Martijn ^a   Kooij, Robert E ^b,c   Brazier, Frances M T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO Information and Communication Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADING EFFECTS; CASCADING FAILURES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; NETWORK ROBUSTNESS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; LOADING; TOPOLOGY;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 84881286528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNSC.2013.6548709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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