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One approach aiming to address these issues is the development of new telemedicine applications. The currently researched network standard 6G promises to deliver many new features which could be beneficial to leverage the full potential of emerging telemedical solutions and overcome the limitations of current network standards.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We developed a telerobotic examination system with a distributed robot control infrastructure to investigate the benefits and challenges of distributed computing scenarios, such as fog computing, in medical applications. We investigate different software configurations for which we characterize the network traffic and computational loads and subsequently establish network allocation strategies for different types of modular application functions (MAFs).<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The results indicate a high variability in the usage profiles of these MAFs, both in terms of computational load and networking behavior, which in turn allows the development of allocation strategies for different types of MAFs according to their requirements. Furthermore, the results provide a strong basis for further exploration of distributed computing scenarios in medical robotics.\n<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>This work lays the foundation for the development of medical robotic applications using 6G network architectures and distributed computing scenarios, such as fog computing. 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