The Integration of Protection, Restoration, and Adaptive Flow Redistribution in Building Resilient Networked Critical Infrastructures against Intentional Attacks

It is paramount to ensure the resilience of networked critical infrastructures, which are vital for the economic development and our daily requirements but threatened by intentional attacks. For this purpose, their protection before and restoration after intentional attacks are of great significance. Moreover, in order to keep the prescribed demand continuously satisfied, postdisruption flow redistribution is also necessary. However, due to the severity of intentional attacks, certain components may need to be overloaded as a result of the redistribution and, thus, the network reliability is influenced. To minimize such influence, we first present a new metric of resilience to reflect the incurred reliability changes. Then, a trilevel optimization model integrating protection, restoration, and adaptive flow redistribution to maximize the network resilience is proposed. To deal with the complexity of the proposed problem, an evolutionary algorithm is employed with necessary adaption.