  The reliable and resilient operation of the smart grid necessitates a clear
understanding of the intra-and-inter dependencies of its power and
communication systems. This understanding can only be achieved by accurately
depicting the interactions between the different components of these two
systems. This paper presents a model, called modified implicative
interdependency model (MIIM), for capturing these interactions. Data obtained
from a power utility in the U.S. Southwest is used to ensure the validity of
the model. The performance of the model for a specific power system application
namely, state estimation, is demonstrated using the IEEE 118-bus system. The
results indicate that the proposed model is more accurate than its predecessor,
the implicative interdependency model (IIM) [1], in predicting the system state
in case of failures in the power and/or communication systems.
