Advanced Reconfigurable 5G Architectures for Human Bond Communication

The provision of enhanced augmented reality services to mobile users based on the Human Bond Communication (HBC) paradigm will rely on the definition of a high performance and highly reconfigurable network architecture for the exchange of sensory information. A network capable of securely and efficiently transmitting data, incorporating all the five sensory features, will enable human beings to communicate sensations and will lead to the definition of a large variety of services. The objective of this chapter is to propose a novel HBC communication network architecture that is able to support the provision of such services. Starting from the definition of the main network, security and quality of service requirements for HBC, a 5G network architecture based on Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization and Fog/Edge Computing paradigms is presented. The main enabling technologies, including WBAN, localization techniques and content-oriented networking are described together with some possible solutions to be adopted to cope with the security threats that may affect the fruition of HBC services.