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Cascading failure is a potentially devastating process that spreads on real-world complex networks and can impact the integrity of wide-ranging infrastructures, natural systems, and societal cohesiveness. One of the essential features that…

Cascading failures are the typical reasons of black- outs in power grids. The grid topology plays an important role in determining the dynamics of cascading failures in power grids. Measures for vulnerability analysis are crucial to assure…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-24 Yakup Koç , Martijn Warnier , Robert E. Kooij , Frances M. T. Brazier

In complex networks, the failure of one or very few nodes may cause cascading failures. When this dynamical process stops in steady state, the size of the giant component formed by remaining un-failed nodes can be used to measure the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Junbiao Liu , Xinyu Jin , Lurong Jiang , Yongxiang Xia , Bo Ouyang , Fang Dong , Yicong Lang , Wenping Zhang

This paper presents a complex systems overview of a power grid network. In recent years, concerns about the robustness of the power grid have grown because of several cascading outages in different parts of the world. In this paper,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-06-24 Sakshi Pahwa , Amelia Hodges , Caterina Scoglio , Sean Wood

One of the serious threats related to climate change is an increase in the number and severity of extreme weather events. A prominent example are hurricanes, which result from rising coastal temperatures. Such extreme weather events can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-05 Julian M. Stürmer , Anton Plietzsch , Mehrnaz Anvari

Time-based dynamic models of cascading failures have been recognized as one of the most comprehensive methods of representing detailed cascading information and are often used for benchmarking and validation. This paper provides an overview…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Yitian Dai , Robin Preece , Mathaios Panteli

In this paper, we introduce a distributed control strategy to prevent dynamically-induced cascading failures in power grids. We model power grids using complex networks and nonlinear dynamics to provide a coarse-grained description of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Mattia Frasca , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza

Large-scale load-altering attacks (LAAs) are known to severely disrupt power grid operations by manipulating several internet-of-things (IoT)-enabled load devices. In this work, we analyze power grid cascading failures induced by such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Maldon Patrice Goodridge , Alessandro Zocca , Subhash Lakshminarayana

Due to uncertainties and the complicated intrinsic dynamics of power systems, it is difficult to predict the cascading failure paths once the cascades occur. This makes it challenging to achieve the effective power system protection against…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Chao Zhai

Increasing volatilities within power transmission and distribution force power grid operators to amplify their use of communication infrastructure to monitor and control their grid. The resulting increase in communication creates a larger…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Tim Krause , Raphael Ernst , Benedikt Klaer , Immanuel Hacker , Martin Henze

This article reviews different kinds of models for the electric power grid that can be used to understand the modern power system, the smart grid. From the physical network to abstract energy markets, we identify in the literature different…

Using the linearized DC power flow model, we study cascading failures and their spatial and temporal properties in the US Western Interconnect (USWI) power grid. We also introduce the preferential Degree And Distance Attachment (DADA)…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-26 Russell Spiewak , Sergey V. Buldyrev , Yakir Forman , Saleh Soltan , Gil Zussman

A reliable supply of electricity is critical for our modern society and any large scale disturbance of the electrical system causes substantial costs. In 2015, one overloaded transmission line caused a cascading failure in the Turkish power…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-04 Benjamin Schäfer , G. Cigdem Yalcin

Knowledge of power grid's topology during cascading failure is an essential element of centralized blackout prevention control, given that multiple islands are typically formed, as a cascade progresses. Moreover, academic research on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Sai Gopal Vennelaganti , Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri , Ting He , Thomas La Porta

Modeling power-grid systems has got a major importance in present days as transformation to renewable energy sources requires the complete re-design of energy transmission. Renewable energy sources can be located quite far from their…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-17 Bálint Hartmann , Géza Ódor , Kristóf Benedek , István Papp

In recent decades, the weather around the world has become more irregular and extreme, often causing large-scale extended power outages. Resilience -- the capability of withstanding, adapting to, and recovering from a large-scale disruption…

Applications · Statistics 2025-08-06 Shixiang Zhu , Rui Yao , Yao Xie , Feng Qiu , Yueming Qiu , Xuan Wu

This paper focuses on cascading line failures in the transmission system of the power grid. Recent large-scale power outages demonstrated the limitations of percolation- and epid- emic-based tools in modeling cascades. Hence, we study…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Saleh Soltan , Dorian Mazauric , Gil Zussman

Inspired by reliability issues in electric transmission networks, we use a probabilistic approach to study the occurrence of large failures in a stylized cascading failure model. In this model, lines have random capacities that initially…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-14 F. Sloothaak , S. C. Borst , A. P. Zwart

A key quality of any kind of system is its ability to deliver its respective service correctly. Often the unavailability of commercial systems may lead to lost revenue, which are minor compared to what may be at stake when critical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Armin Stocker , Hermann de Meer

Cascading failures are one of the main reasons for blackouts in electrical power grids. Stable power supply requires a robust design of the power grid topology. Currently, the impact of the grid structure on the grid robustness is mainly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-26 Xiangrong Wang , Yakup Koç , Robert E. Kooij , Piet Van Mieghem