Power grid vulnerability: a complex network approach.

Power grids exhibit patterns of reaction to outages similar to complex networks. Blackout sequences follow power laws, as complex systems operating near a critical point. Here, the tolerance of electric power grids to both accidental and malicious outages is analyzed in the framework of complex network theory. In particular, the quantity known as efficiency is modified by introducing a new concept of distance between nodes. As a result, a new parameter called net-ability is proposed to evaluate the performance of power grids. A comparison between efficiency and net-ability is provided by estimating the vulnerability of sample networks, in terms of both the metrics.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Chaos

• Publication date

  2008-10-29

• Fields of study

  Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1063/1.3077229arXiv 0810.5278PMID 19334983
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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