Network reliability benchmark study with application to gas transmission system

Recent concerns about security of the main energy infrastructures (gas, electricity, oil) in Europe highlighted the need to model complex systems that are connected in networks and usually are continent-wide. Modeling of complex networked systems is a challenging task due to usually large number of network nodes and complex interdependencies among the nodes. The paper investigates Monte-Carlo and fault tree based methods to analyze security and reliability aspects of network systems that are transmitting resources between the nodes and are vulnerable due to component failures or external supply cutsJRC.F.3-Energy securit