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Technical University of Munich

6G-life2

The BMFTR-funded collaborative project 6G-life2 will drive cutting-edge research for 6G communication networks. As a consistent further development of today's 4G and 5G mobile communication standards, 6G offers new approaches to sustainability, security, resilience and latency and will strengthen the economy and thus digital sovereignty in Germany. The focus of 6G is on human-machine collaboration, creating the ideal conditions for healthcare applications. At the TUM Universityhospital medical use cases are being researched with the goal of integrating innovative 6G network concepts.

In the first phase of the project, a new structure was designed and a test bed was set up in collaboration with the Chair of Communication Networks at TUM so that Modular Application Functions (MAFs) can be processed optimally in the network. Functions from the two use cases semiautonomous telerobotic examination suite and context-sensitive medical environment were computed within the network.

In 6G-life2, this testbed will be further expanded and new applications explored in order to create significant added value for clinical staff and patients in the future.

For more information about the overall project, please visit the 6G-life2 website.

Contact

Franziska Jurosch, M.Sc. and Sven Kolb, M.Sc.

2026

  • Wilhelm, Dirk; Speidel, Stefanie; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Haddadin, Sami; Krzywinski, Jens; Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Sadeghian, Hamid; Younis, Rayan; Mehmeti, Fidan; Kröger, Nicolai; Fan, Yichen; Ellenberg, Mats Ole; Just, Gregor; Rodriguez, Ariel; Gebhardt, Felix; Wagner, Martin (2026) Chapter 3 - 6G for healthcare systems. In: 6G-life, Editors: Fitzek, Frank H.P.; Boche, Holger; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Seeling, Patrick, Academic Press, 31-49, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-44-327410-7.00014-4
  • Haddadin, Sami; Wilhelm, Dirk; Boche, Holger; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Nguyen, Giang T.; Mönich, Ullrich J.; Sadeghian, Hamid; Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Li, Xinyang; Torres-Figueroa, Luis; Andrei, Vlad-Costin; Kröger, Nicolai; Mehmeti, Fidan; Le Mesle, Valentin; Haider, Valentin; Ayvasik, Serkut; Aykurt, Kaan; Vielhaus, Christian; Yilmaz, Isikcan; Kappelt, Peter; Doan, Tung V.; Dachselt, Raimund; Wagner, Martin; Speidel, Stefanie; Fitzek, Frank H.P. (2026) Chapter 24 - Testbeds for 6G technologies. In: 6G-life, Editors: Fitzek, Frank H.P.; Boche, Holger; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Seeling, Patrick, Academic Press, 543-579, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-44-327410-7.00039-9

2025

  • Jurosch, F., Zeller, J., Wagner, L., Özsoy, E., Jell, A., Kolb, S., Wilhelm, D. Video-based multi-target multi-camera tracking for postoperative phase recognition. Int J CARS (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11548-025-03344-x
  • 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," NOMS 2025-2025 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2025, pp. 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS57970.2025.11073719.
  • Sadeghian, Hamid; Le Mesle, Valentin; Jakob, Fabian; Kenanoglu, Celal Umut; Li, Yu; Wilhelm, Dirk; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Haddadin, Sami (2025) A Modular Research Platform for 5G-enabled Remote Telesurgery. In: 1st German Robotics Conference.
  • Wietfeld, Alexander; Hofmann, Pit; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Zhou, Pengjie; Zheng, Ruifeng; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Kellerer, Wolfgang (2025) Advanced Plaque Modeling for Atherosclerosis Detection Using Molecular Communication. Accepted, to appear in: Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
  • Hofmann, Pit; Wietfeld, Alexander; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Zhou, Pengjie; Zheng, Ruifeng; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Kellerer, Wolfgang (2025) The Impact of Arterial Plaque Tissue Elasticity on In-Body Molecular Communication Scenarios. Accepted, to appear in: 9th Workshop on Molecular Communications.

2024

  • Wilhelm, Dirk et al. (2024) 6G & eHealth: Use Cases and Potential Service Requirements. In: one6G white paper. https://one6g.org/resources/publications/
  • Jurosch, Franziska; Kröger, Nicolai; Kolb, Sven; Mehmeti, Fidan; Martens, Eimo; Speidel, Stefanie; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk; Fuchtmann, Jonas (2024) 6G networks for the operating room of the future. In: Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1091/ad819c
  • Jurosch, F., Wagner, L., Jell, A. et al. Extra-abdominal trocar and instrument detection for enhanced surgical workflow understanding. Int J CARS 19, 1939–1945 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-024-03220-0
  • Kröger, Nicolai; Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Wilhelm, Dirk; Kellerer, Wolfgang (2024) Processing Modular Application Functions in Future Medical 6G Radio Access Networks. In: 2024 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Paris, France, 1-6. doi.org/10.1109/WiMob61911.2024.10770333
  • Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Kröger, Nicolai; Mehmeti, Fidan; Bernhard, Lukas; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Speidel, Stefanie; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk (2024) 6G in Clinical Applications: Integrating New Network Approaches in Healthcare. In: Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 10(2), 33-36. doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2024-1060
  • Kolb, Sven; Madden, Andrew; Kröger, Nicolai; Mehmeti, Fidan; Jurosch, Franziska; Bernhard, Lukas; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk (2024) 6G in Medical Robotics: Development of Network Allocation Strategies for a Telerobotic Examination System. In: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. doi.org/10.1007/s11548-024-03260-6
  • Hofmann, Pit; Schmidt, Sebastian; Wietfeld, Alexander; Zhou, Pengjie; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Kellerer, Wolfgang (2024) A Molecular Communication Perspective on Detecting Arterial Plaque Formation. In: Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (TMBMC), vol. Early Access, pp. 1–6 (Presented at 8th Workshop on Molecular Communications (MolCom) in Oslo, Norway in April 2024).

2023

  • Jurosch, Franziska; Kolb, Sven (2023) 6G Healthcare: Integrating New Network Approaches in Medical Robotics Applications. In Prototyping in 2023 - Working group 4. one6G white paper. one6g.org/resources/publications/

2025

  • Thinknet 6G Summit 2025: Optimized In-Network Placement of Modular Application Functions for Medical Applications
  • one6G Summit 2025: Optimized in-network placement of modular application functions (MAFs) for medical applications (Demo)
  • automatica 2025 (munich_i / AI.Society): 6G-enabled telerobotic semiautonomous examination (Demo)

2024

  • 6G Open Lab Day 2024: Telemedical Examination and Patient Monitoring in Shared 6G Network Testbed (Demo)
  • CARS 2024: 6G in Medical Robotics: Development of Network Allocation Strategies for a Telerobotic Examination System
  • WiMob 2024: Processing Modular Application Functions in Future Medical 6G Radio Access Networks

2023

  • one6G Summit 2023: 6G Healthcare: Integrating New Network Approaches in Medical Robotics Applications (Demo)
  • CURAC 2023: 6G in Clinical Applications: Integrating New Network Approaches in Healthcare
  • 6G-life Workshop on Machine Learning in 6G: 6G & AI in the Operating Room
  • CARS 2023: 6G Networks for the Operating Room of the Future
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