Title
Topological Vulnerability Of Power Grids To Disasters: Bounds, Adversarial Attacks And Reinforcement
Abstract
Natural disasters like hurricanes, floods or earthquakes can damage power grid devices and create cascading blackouts and islands. The nature of failure propagation and extent of damage, among other factors, is dependent on the structural features of the grid, that are distinct from that of random networks. This paper analyzes the structural vulnerability of real power grids to impending disasters and presents intuitive graphical metrics to quantify the extent of topological damage. We develop two improved graph eigen-value based bounds on the grid vulnerability. Further we study adversarial attacks aimed at weakening the grid's structural robustness and present three combinatorial algorithms to determine the optimal topological attack. Simulations on power grid networks and comparison with existing work show the improvements of the proposed measures and attack schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1371/journal.pone.0204815
PLOS ONE
Field
DocType
Volume
Psychological resilience,Graph,Computer security,Electric power transmission,Natural disaster,Test case,Mathematics,Grid,Vulnerability,Adversarial system
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1932-6203
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Deepjyoti Deka16816.63
Sriram Vishwanath24185445.45