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Robert A. Freitas Jr., Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 1999

7.3 Communication Networks

To maintain a continuous information flow for sensor data sharing, mission monitoring and wide-area control, it is convenient to establish a communication network in vivo that facilitates point-to-point and broadcast messaging. Two distinct physical network architectures are readily discerned -- fiber networks (Section 7.3.1) and mobile networks (Section 7.3.2).

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