6G‐enabled internet of medical things

Abstract

AbstractHealthcare is the foremost concern for any country. UN has also fixed ‘good health’ and well‐being’ as its third sustainable development goal. CoVID‐19 era has shown the vulnerability of health infrastructure worldwide. As per WHO, aging population of the world would put enormous pressure on health infrastructure in coming decades. With lack of healthcare professionals and limited budget to achieve UNSDG goal‐3, IoMT with its huge umbrella of medical services and applications can address these issues. 5G has been deployed in many countries and vision for 6G have been finalized by different research groups. 6G will help Internet of Medical Things to realize its full potential. In this work, an open ‘6G enabled IoMT’ architecture has been presented. It can integrate a wide number of services. The limitations of 5G in catering to such a network are also highlighted. The challenges and open issues are presented in the light of services and applications that can be provided by the purposed architecture. A brief overview of 6G is also provided.