The Power Grid as a Complex Network: a Survey
By Giuliano Andrea Pagani, Marco Aiello. arXiv.org, 2011
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The statistical tools of Complex Network Analysis are of useful to understand salient properties of complex systems, may these be natural or pertaining human engineered infrastructures. One of these that is receiving growing attention for its societal relevance is that of electricity distribution. In this paper, we present a survey of the most relevant scientific studies investigating the properties of different Power Grids infrastructures using Complex Network Analysis techniques and methodologies. We categorize and explore the most relevant literature works considering general topological properties, physical properties, and differences between the various graph-related indicators and reliability aspects. We also trace the evolution in such field of the approach of study during the years to see the improvement achieved in the analysis.
Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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- Topological properties of medium voltage electricity distribution networks (2018, background): “Pagani on the review on ‘power grids as 68 complex networks’ [19].”
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