Simulation Model of Cascading Effects from Cyber Attacks on Electric Power Infrastructure Networks

To destroy a country´s physical electric power infrastructure by attacking its control system through cyber means, has become an important way to weaken a country´s war power. Along with the construction of next generation smart grid, development of the internet of things and appearance of system of systems(henceforth, SOS) warfare based on information systems, the complicated control networks system would confront more and more threat of cyber attack. we design the main structure and key arithmetic of the model, based on the physical electric power infrastructure whose cyber and physical system is close interdependent in order to provide theoretic reference to the analyzing and evaluating the cascading effects from increasing cyber attack to physic system. Preliminary experiments show that these structures and algorithms are reasonable and feasible.