To solve the problems of the existing trusted network access protocols for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) mesh networks, we propose a new trusted network access protocol for WLAN mesh networks, which is abbreviated as WMN-TNAP. This protocol implements mutual user authentication and Platform-Authentication between the supplicant and Mesh Authenticator (MA), and between the supplicant and Authentication Server (AS) of a WLAN mesh network, establishes the key management system for the WLAN mesh network, and effectively prevents the platform configuration information of the supplicant, MA and AS from leaking out. Moreover, this protocol is proved secure based on the extended Strand Space Model (SSM) for trusted network access protocols.

Accurate estimating or measuring the intake manifold absolute pressure plays an important role in automobile engine control. In order to achieve the real-time estimation of the absolute pressure, the high accuracy and high speed processing ability are required for automobile engine control systems. Therefore, in this paper, an analog method is discussed and a fully integrated analog circuit is proposed to simulate automobile intake systems. Furthermore, a novel behavioral macromodeling is proposed for the analog circuit design. With the analog circuit, the intake manifold absolute pressure, which plays an important role for the effective automobile engine control, can be accurately estimated or measured in real time.

In deep submicron designs, predicting gate slews and delays for interconnect loads is vitally important for Static Timing Analysis (STA). The effective capacitance Ceff concept is usually used to calculate the gate delay of interconnect loads. Many Ceff algorithms have been proposed to compute gate delay of interconnect loads. However, less work has been done to develop a Ceff algorithm which can accurately predict gate slew. In this paper, we propose a novel method for calculating the Ceff of interconnect load for gate slew. We firstly establish a new expression for Ceff in 0.8Vdd point. Then the Integration Approximation method is used to calculate the value of Ceff in 0.8Vdd point. In this method, the integration of a complicated nonlinear gate output is approximated with that of a piecewise linear waveform. Based on the value of Ceff in 0.8Vdd point, Ceff of interconnect load for gate slew is obtained. The simulation results demonstrate a significant improvement in accuracy.

Trusted network access protocols are proposed for the security and authorization of network-access requests. Because they differ greatly from traditional security protocols on security demands, they can not be analyzed with previous strand space works directly. To solve this problem, we first give some extensions necessary to verify them in this letter. Moreover, we point out Zhuo Ma et al.'s MN-TAP protocol is unsecure based on the Strand Space Model (SSM), and then improve the MN-TAP protocol and show that the improved MN-TAP protocol is secure in the SSM.

A low-power sub-1-V self-biased low-voltage reference is proposed for micropower electronic applications based on body effect. The proposed reference has a very low temperature dependence by using a MOSFET with body effect compared with other reported low-power references. An HSPICE simulation shows that the reference voltage and the total power dissipation are 181 mV and 1.1 µW, respectively. The temperature coefficient of the reference voltage is 33 ppm/ at temperatures from -40 to 100. The supply voltage can be as low as 0.95 V in a standard CMOS 0.35 µm technology with threshold voltages of about 0.5 V and -0.65 V for n-channel and p-channel MOSFETs, respectively. Furthermore, the supply voltage dependence is -0.36 mV/V (Vdd=0.95-3.3 V).

An energy management circuit is proposed for self-powered ubiquitous sensor modules using vibration-based energy. With the proposed circuit, the sensor modules work with low duty cycle operation. Moreover, a two-tank circuit as a part of the energy management circuit is utilized to solve the problem that the average power density of ambient energy always varies with time while the power consumption of the sensor modules is constant and larger than it. In addition, the long start-up time problem is also avoided with the timing control of the proposed energy management circuit. The CMOS implementation and silicon verification results of the proposed circuit are also presented. Its validity is further confirmed with a vibration-based energy generation. The sensor module is used to supervise the vibration of machines and transfer the vibration signal discontinuously. A piezoelectric element acts as the vibration-to-electricity converter to realize battery-free operation.