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Researchers from University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin-Madison and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a new communication protocol called Molecular Multiple Access (MoMA) that enables a molecular network with multiple transmitters.
MoMA uses biomolecular communication, which inspired by the body itself, to send data by encoding it into molecules which then go through the bloodstream.
MoMA can scale up to four transmitters and significantly outperforms state-of-the-art technology.
The researchers acknowledge the need for in-vivo testing in wet-labs to fully grasp challenges associated with molecular networks.
Despite being in the early stages, the team believes they have taken significant steps toward practical and deployable molecular networks, challenging the notion of this technology as science fiction.
The research was published in the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 conference.
