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Nanotechnology is enabling the development of integrated devices just a few hundred nanometers in size. Communication among these nano-devices will boost the applications of nanotechnology in the biomedical, environmental and military fields. Within the communication alternatives at the nanoscale, the state of the art in nanomaterial research points to the Terahertz band (0.1-10 THz) as the frequency range of operation of graphene-based electromagnetic (EM) nano-transceivers. This frequency band supports very large transmission bit-rates and enables simple communication mechanisms suited to the limited capabilities of nano-devices. Due to an expectedly very large number of nano-devices sharing the same channel, it is necessary to develop new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols which will be able to capture the peculiarities of nanonetworks in the Terahertz band. In this paper, PHLAME, a …