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In this paper, we present the first ring oscillator (RO) based strong physical unclonable function (PUF) with high resilience to both the electromagnetic (EM) side-channel attack and the support vector machine (SVM) modelling attack. By employing an RO based PUF architecture with the current starved inverter as the delay cell, the oscillation power is significantly reduced to minimize the emitted EM signal, leading to greatly enhanced immunity to the EM side-channel analysis attack. In addition, featuring superior reconfigurability due to the conspicuously simplified circuitries, the proposed implementation is capable of withstanding the SVM modelling attack by generating and comparing a large number of RO frequency pairs. The reported experimental results validate the prototype of a 9-stage RO PUF fabricated using standard 65 nm complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. Operating at the supply voltage of 1.2 V and the frequency of 100 KHz, the fabricated RO PUF occupies a compact silicon area of 250    \u03bc   m     2     and consumes a power as low as 5.16    \u03bc   W per challenge-response pair (CRP). Furthermore, the uniqueness and the worst-case reliability are measured to be 50.17% and 98.30% for the working temperature range of \u221240\u223c120      \u2218    C and the supply voltage variation of \u00b12%, respectively. Thus, the proposed PUF is applicable for the low power, low cost and secure WSN communications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18020322","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,23]],"date-time":"2018-01-23T13:06:51Z","timestamp":1516712811000},"page":"322","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["A Compact and Low Power RO PUF with High Resilience to the EM Side-Channel Attack and the SVM Modelling Attack of Wireless Sensor Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Yuan","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Internet of Things Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou 213022, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9965-3516","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaojin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenbin","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qingbang","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Internet of Things Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou 213022, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaofang","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"77","DOI":"10.1109\/MVT.2017.2736858","article-title":"Intravehicular energy-harvesting wireless networks: Reducing costs and emissions","volume":"12","author":"Ergen","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Veh. 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