Modelling interdependencies between the electricity and information infrastructures
Résumé
The aim of this paper is to provide qualitative models characterizing interdependencies related failures of two critical infrastructures: the electricity infrastructure and the associated information infrastructure. The interdependen-cies of these two infrastructures are increasing due to a growing connection of the power grid networks to the global information infrastructure, as a conse-quence of market deregulation and opening. These interdependencies increase the risk of failures. We focus on cascading, escalating and common-cause fail-ures, which correspond to the main causes of failures due to interdependencies. We address failures in the electricity infrastructure, in combination with acci-dental failures in the information infrastructure, then we show briefly how ma-licious attacks in the information infrastructure can be addressed.
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