Viral Communications

Principal Investigator(s): 
Andy Lippman and David P. Reed

Viral Communications focuses on constructing infrastructure-free agile, scalable, collaborative systems that permit uncontrolled growth, minimal power use, and maximum ability to intercommunicate, with viral architectures moving the intelligence from the trunk to the leaves. The goal is purely photonic communications—optics and radio, no wires, with minimal costs for innovation and flexible architectures. Primary work addresses both the basic mechanisms of radio and the applications that embed communications in the bits and pieces of daily life, from clothes, to dog collars, to furniture.