Resilience Engineering for Power and Communications Systems

Alexis Kwasinski is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the R. K. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Energy, at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in critical infrastructure resilience, and is a co-author of Microgrids and other Local Area Power and Energy Systems (2016). Andres Kwasinski is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, with an emphasis on wireless communications and networking. He is a co-author of Cooperative Communications and Networking (2009), and the Chief Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Resource Center. Vaidyanathan Krishnamurthy is a Reliability Data Scientist at Ørsted A/S, with experience in the development of software, frameworks and tools for modeling large-scale networks and failure analysis for renewable energy systems.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Fundamental supporting concepts; 3. Resilience models and metrics; 4. Dependencies and interdependencies and their effect on resilience; 5. Disaster forensics of infrastructure systems; 6. Electric power grids resilience; 7. Resilience of information and communication networks; 8. Integrated electric power and communications infrastructure resilience; 9. Infrastructure systems planning for improved resilience.