Reliability analysis of multi-source multi-sink critical interacting systems

Abstract

Traditional reliability studies on probabilistic networks are devoted to evaluate the probability that two nodes or K nodes are connected, assuming that nodes are undifferentiated. In flow networks, however, we need to distinguish between source nodes where the flow is generated and sink nodes where the flow is utilized. Sink nodes may usually be fed by many sources. To this end, we have extended the traditional studies to include multi-source multi-sink networks. A case study is analysed consisting in a portion of an electrical grid controlled by a its SCADA system through a public telecommunication network.