This book approaches the topic area of the Internet of Things (IoT) from the perspective of the five types of human communication. Through this perspective on the human communication types, the book aims to specifically address how IoT technologies can support humans and their endeavors. The book explores the fields of sensors, wireless, physiology, biology, wearables, and the Internet. This book is organized with five sections, each covering a central theme;

Section 1: The basics of human bond communication

Section 2: Relevance IoT, BAN and PAN

Section 3: Applications of HBC

Section 4: Security, Privacy and Regulatory Challenges

Section 5: The Big Picture (Where do we go from here?)

Sudhir Dixit is cofounder and CEO of Skydoot, Inc. He is also the Director of Human Bond Communication at the recently founded CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) in Rome and is a Fellow and Evangelist of Basic Internet at the Basic Internet Foundation in Norway. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IET and Fellow of IETE. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE's Spectrum Magazine, Cambridge University Press's Wireless Essentials Series, and Springer's Wireless Personal Communications journal. He is chairman of the Vision Committee and vice-chair of the Americas region of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He also chairs the IEEE ComSoc Sub-Technical Committee on Fiber and Wireless Convergence. With Wiley he has authored WiFi, WiMAX and LTE Multi-hop Mesh Networks: Basic Communication Protocols and Application Areas (2013), has co-edited Technologies for Home Networking (2008) and Content Networking in the Mobile Internet (2004), and has edited IP over WDM: Building the Next-Generation Optical Internet (2004).

Ramjee Prasad is a Professor in Multi Business Model Innovation and Technology (MBIT) in the School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), IET (UK), and IETE (India) and a recipient of many international academic, industrial, and governmental awards and distinctions, including the Knight of the Order of Dannebrog (Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen, 2010) awarded by the Queen of Denmark. He is the founder president of the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) and has been a founder Director of Center for TeleInFfrastruktur (CTIF) since 2004. He is also the founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardization Forum for India, established in 2009. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer's Wireless Personal Communications journal and series editor of Wireless Technology. With Wiley he has contributed to Cognitive Radio Networks (2009) and co-edited Technologies for Home Networking (2008).

List of Contributors ix

About the Editors xi

Preface xv

Abbreviations xvii

1 Introduction to Human Bond Communication 1
Sudhir Dixit and Ramjee Prasad

2 General Concepts Behind Human Bond Communication 11
Liljana Gavrilovska, Valentin Rakovic, and Sudhir Dixit

3 Advanced Reconfigurable 5G Architectures for Human Bond Communication 41
Enrico Del Re, Simone Morosi, Luca Simone Ronga, Lorenzo Mucchi, Sara Jayousi, and Federica Paganelli

4 Data Mining of the Human Being 59
Mauro De Sanctis and Pierpaolo Loreti

5 Human]Centric IoT Networks 71
Albena Mihovska, Ramjee Prasad, and Milica Pejanovic

6 Body as a Network Node: Key is the Oral Cavity 87
Marina Ruggieri and Gianpaolo Sannino

7 Human Bond Communication Using Cognitive Radio Approach for Efficient Spectrum Utilization 97
Sachin Sharma and Seshadri Mohan

8 Technology Advancement and Integration in the Context of Wildlife Conservation 115
Pradeep K. Mathur, Bilal Habib, and Prateek Mathur

9 An Investigation of Security and Privacy for Human Bond Communications 131
Geir M. Køien

10 The Internet of Everything and Beyond: The Interplay between Things and Humans 173
Helga E. Melcherts

11 Human Bond Communications in Health: Ethical and Legal Issues 187
Ernestina Cianca and Maurizia De Bellis

12 Human Bond Communication: A New and Unexplored Frontier for Intellectual Property and Information and Communication Technology Law 197
Edoardo Di Maggio and Domenico Siciliano

13 Predicting the Future of ICT: A Historical Perspective 209
Silvano Pupolin

14 Human Bond Communication Beyond 2050 227
Flemming Hynkemejer and Sudhir Dixit

Index 243