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This will result in a serious consequence that many conclusions of the one-to-one structure may be incorrect in the dual coupling network and do not apply to the smart grid. Therefore, it is very necessary to subdivide the dual coupling link into a top-down coupling link and a bottom-up coupling link in order to study their influence on network robustness by combining with different coupling modes. Additionally, the power flow of the power grid can cause the load of a failed node to be allocated to its neighboring nodes and trigger a new round of load distribution when the load of these nodes exceeds their capacity. This means that the robustness of smart grids may be affected by four factors, i.e., load redistribution, local coupling, dual coupling link and coupling mode; however, the research on the influence of those factors on the network robustness is missing. In this paper, firstly, we construct the smart grid as a two-layer network with a dual coupling link and divide the power grid and communication network into many subnets based on the geographical location of their nodes. Secondly, we define node importance (    N I    ) as an evaluation index to access the impact of nodes on the cyber or physical network and propose three types of coupling modes based on    N I    of nodes in the cyber and physical subnets, i.e., Assortative Coupling in Subnets (ACIS), Disassortative Coupling in Subnets (DCIS), and Random Coupling in Subnets (RCIS). Thirdly, a cascading failure model is proposed for studying the effect of local coupling of dual coupling link in combination with ACIS, DCIS, and RCIS on the robustness of the smart grid against a targeted attack, and the survival rate of functional nodes is used to assess the robustness of the smart grid. Finally, we use the IEEE 118-Bus System and the Italian High-Voltage Electrical Transmission Network to verify our model and obtain the same conclusions: (I) DCIS applied to the top-down coupling link is better able to enhance the robustness of the smart grid against a targeted attack than RCIS or ACIS, (II) ACIS applied to a bottom-up coupling link is better able to enhance the robustness of the smart grid against a targeted attack than RCIS or DCIS, and (III) the robustness of the smart grid can be improved by increasing the tolerance   \u03b1   . This paper provides some guidelines for slowing down the speed of the cascading failures in the design of architecture and optimization of interdependent networks, such as a top-down link with DCIS, a bottom-up link with ACIS, and an increased tolerance   \u03b1   .<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18061699","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,28]],"date-time":"2018-05-28T03:54:21Z","timestamp":1527479661000},"page":"1699","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Influence of Different Coupling Modes on the Robustness of Smart Grid under Targeted Attack"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6111-8983","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"WenJie","family":"Kang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"PeiDong","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Changsha University, Changsha 410022, China"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Hang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Mobile Business Intelligence, Changsha 410205, China"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering &amp; Applied Math, Changsha University, Changsha 410022, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"136","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scs.2018.04.010","article-title":"Framework for smart transactive energy in home-microgrids considering coalition formation and demand side management","volume":"40","author":"Marzband","year":"2018","journal-title":"Sustain. 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