Title
Simulation Of Cascading Outages In (Inter)-Dependent Services And Estimate Of Their Societal Consequences Short Paper
Abstract
We present RecSIM, a specific application which is part of the CIPCast tool, a Decision Support System (DSS) for risk analysis of (inter)-dependent Critical Infrastructures (CI) under development within the EU FP7 CIPRNet Project. Electrical and the telecommunication networks play a central role in systems of CI and are also strongly interdependent: the latter allows tele-control operations on the former which, in turn, supplies energy to the latter. Services outages of those CI can generate cascading effects also on other systems, thus producing large societal consequences. The RecSIM tool is a discrete-time simulator able to model the dependencies between the electric and the telecommunication systems, to simulate the cascading effects in the two networks and to reproduce the results of the actions taken by operators to reconfigure the electrical network. Starting from the prediction of damages on the network topology, RecSIM reproduces the whole crisis and estimates the resulting outages (outage start and outage end) in all the involved CI elements. RecSIM, moreover, through the Consequence Analysis module, estimates the effects of the degradation (or the complete loss) of the electric and the telecommunication services, via the estimate of specific indices useful to assess the severity of the crisis in terms of its societal impact.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-71368-7_30
CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES SECURITY (CRITIS 2016)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Critical infrastructures, Simulator, Electrical network, Telecommunication network, Wealth index
Electrical network,Telecommunications network,Computer science,Risk analysis (business),Societal impact of nanotechnology,Decision support system,Network topology,Operator (computer programming),Telecommunications service,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10242
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Di Pietro1175.64
Luigi La Porta252.60
Luisa Lavalle330.84
Maurizio Pollino4126.16
Vittorio Rosato511617.16
Alberto Tofani6277.00