Resilience analysis of power grids under the sequential attack

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2340-2354

  Zhu, Yihai ^a   Yan, Jun ^a   Tang, Yufei ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   He, Haibo ^a  

^a University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack strategies; Cascading failures; Power grid security

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

ATTACK SCENARIOS; ATTACK STRATEGIES; CASCADING FAILURES; CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES; COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL SERVICES; LARGE-SCALE BLACKOUT; POWER GRID SECURITIES;

OUTAGES;

EID: 84910637800     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2014.2363786     Document Type: Article

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