Future Wireless Systems for Human Bond Communications

Abstract In the near future the capability of the human beings to communicate sensations is going to be enhanced by incorporating the five sensory features in the messages and allowing more expressive and holistic sensory information exchange through communication techniques. The human bond communication (HBC) is currently a vision, but it is expected to become true. The objective of this paper is to give an overview of the potentiality and the main challenges for the adoption of HBC in the existing and future wireless systems. Starting from the HBC main features, a flexible architecture that could be considered for the development of these systems is described, highlighting how wireless systems could eventually boost the HBC adoption in different scenarios. The security and privacy issues are presented, focusing on the requirements and the new threats identification and proposing some possible solutions. Finally, some potential application contexts are analyzed and the open key issues for HBC implementation are addressed.