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Mobile communication networks of the current generation (5G) are, in both practical and regulatory terms, part of the Critical Infrastructure. With the advent of 6G, new application domains will emerge in areas such as energy, transport, and healthcare, further increasing the criticality of mobile communication systems.
Within the project, the medical domain is considered a particularly relevant application area. The objective is to enhance the resilience of mobile-network-based medical applications and thereby improve the security of healthcare delivery in crisis situations. To this end, concepts for 6G campus networks are being developed that enable local island operation in the event of a failure of public networks, or conversely allow critical applications to be offloaded to public networks and cloud infrastructures.
In this way, both the resilience of the mobile communication system itself and the end-to-end resilience from an application perspective are strengthened. In the medical domain, at least two use cases will be implemented and evaluated in order to derive transferable blueprints for other Critical Infrastructures. The focus of ICCAS lies in addressing the specific requirements of medical technology. In this context, the project systematically investigates how future-proof resilience concepts can be integrated into networked healthcare systems in order to reduce their vulnerability and enhance security of supply. To this end, medical, organizational, and technical use cases with high relevance for clinical workflows are identified and analyzed.
The concepts are evaluated in a clinical-like environment within the Health Communication Lab (HeCoLa). For this purpose, the laboratory infrastructure is extended by the public 5G network as well as by resilience demonstrators developed by the project partners. Particular emphasis is placed on interoperable system integration: hospital information systems and mobile end devices are required to communicate seamlessly, relying on established standards such as HL7, FHIR, and DICOM. In addition, ICCAS develops a validation framework that incorporates both technical criteria and functional test scenarios within a clinical usage context.
The project is accompanied by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) as an associated partner.
