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6G in Hospitals - The 6G Medical Testbed

A male patient lying down to get examined by a female doctor sitting at a PC. The doctor controls a robot arm to examine the patient with an ultrasound robotc arm. via 6G.
© N. Kröger, S. Kolb, F. Jurosch / TUM

The 6G Medical Testbed provides a platform to research and test emerging medical applications using 6G in a real hospital setting. Developed and maintained together with our project partners from MITI , the testbed is located at the TUM hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar. 

Currently, the following medical use cases are implemented:

  • Semiautonomous Telerobotic Examination Suite for remote patient diagnosis.
  • Context-Aware Patient Monitoring for adaptive monitoring of the status of the patient.
  • More use cases such as an exosceleton arm, etc. are planned to be added!

The medical applications are connected with a 6G research communication network, supporting various wired and wireless access technologies and concepts. The applications are hereby splitted into different Modular Application Functions (MAFs), which allow to adapt them according to the status of the network.

Our main research topics in the scope of 6G communication networks include:

  • Optimal Placement of medical MAFs and their interaction with the network.
  • In-Network Computing.
  • Reliable communication for mission-critical medical use cases.
  • Improved connectivity combining various wireless access technologies such as OpenRAN, WiFI, LiFi etc.

 

Related Projects

Related Publications

  • Kröger, Nicolai; Gattulli, Giuseppe; Jurosch, Franziska; Kolb, Sven; Wilhelm, Dirk; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Mehmeti, Fidan: Processing Prioritization of Modular Medical Applications in Future 6G Radio Access Networks. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2025
  • Jurosch, Franziska; Kröger, Nicolai; Kolb, Sven; Mehmeti, Fidan; Martens, Eimo; Speidel, Stefanie; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk; Fuchtmann, Jonas: 6G networks for the operating room of the future. Progress in Biomedical Engineering 6 (4), 2024, 043001
  • Kolb, Sven; Madden, Andrew; Kröger, Nicolai; Mehmeti, Fidan; Jurosch, Franziska; Bernhard, Lukas; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk: 6G in Medical Robotics: Development of Network Allocation Strategies for a Telerobotic Examination System. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), 2024
  • Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Kröger, Nicolai; Mehmeti, Fidan; Bernhard, Lukas; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Speidel, Stefanie; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk: 6G in Clinical Applications: Integrating New Network Approaches in Healthcare. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 10 (2), 2024, 33-36
  • Kröger, Nicolai; Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Wilhelm, Dirk; Kellerer, Wolfgang: Processing Modular Application Functions in Future Medical 6G Radio Access Networks. First International Workshop on 6G Emerging Technologies, Architectures, and Applications, 2024
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