Title
How Can Cyber-Physical Interdependence Affect the Mitigation of Cascading Power Failure?
Abstract
Utilizing advanced communication technologies to facilitate power system monitoring and control, the smart grid is envisioned to be more robust and resilient against cascading failures. Although the integration of communication network does benefit the smart grid in many aspects, such benefits should not overshadow the fact that the interdependence between the communication network and the power infrastructure makes the smart grid more fragile to cascading failures. Thus, it is essential to understand the impact of such cyber-physical integration with interdependence from both positive and negative perspectives. In this paper, we develop a systematic framework to analyze the benefits and drawbacks of the cyber-physical interdependence. We use theoretical analysis and system-level simulations to characterize the impact of such interdependence. We identify two phases during the progress of failure propagation where the integrated communication and interdependence helps and hinders the mitigation of the failure, respectively, which provides practical guidance to smart grid system design and optimization.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
IEEE INFOCOM
Smart grid,failure propagation,cascading failure,load shedding control,modeling and simulations
Field
DocType
ISSN
Monitoring and control,Telecommunications network,Smart grid,Computer science,Systems design,Electric power system,Cascading failure,Cyber-physical system,Power-system protection,Distributed computing
Conference
0743-166X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingkui Wei1174.59
Zhuo Lu212328.22
Yufei Tang320322.83
Xiang Lu4509.17