Revealing cascading failure vulnerability in power grids using risk-graph

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3274-3284

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

^a University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack; Cascading failure; Extended model; Power grid; Risk graph; Security

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM SECURITY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; OUTAGES;

ATTACK; CASCADING FAILURES; EXTENDED MODEL; POWER GRIDS; RISK GRAPHS; SECURITY;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84911932080     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.2295814     Document Type: Article

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