Title
Identifying Vulnerabilities In Critical Infrastructures By Network Analysis
Abstract
By modelling the relationships and how disruption cascades within a complex infrastructure network, vulnerabilities can be identified and recovery/ response efforts planned. A simulation approach is applied in this paper to identify critical components in a given infrastructure system represented as a graph comprising nodes and links. The network is modelled using NetLogo, a multi-agent programming environment. One-and two-node attack scenarios are programmed to investigate the impact of different node failures in the network, with the ensuing disruption quantified by a giant component metric. In the one-node attack, the minimum, final and average sizes of the giant component unanimously identified the same critical node while the two-node attack simulation identified different node pairs as critical. Which pair should be considered most critical will depend on policy goals to be met. This simulation approach can aid policymakers in deciding which infrastructures require higher protection and how recovery strategies should be planned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1504/IJCIS.2013.054978
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Keywords
Field
DocType
critical infrastructure interdependencies, vulnerabilities, protection, network analysis, giant component, NetLogo
Graph,Infrastructure network,Computer security,Multi-agent system,Giant component,NetLogo,Network analysis,Engineering,Accident prevention,Vulnerability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
3
1475-3219
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chi Yung Lam110.39
Jiaying Lin210.72
Mong Soon Sim311.74
K. Tai417722.25