The evolution of integrated clinical environments (ICE) and the future generations of mobile networks brings to reality the hospitals of the future and their innovative clinical scenarios. The mobile edge computing paradigm together with network function virtualization techniques and the software-defined networking paradigm enable self-management, adaptability, and security of medical devices and data management processes making up clinical environments. However, the logical centralized approach of the SDN control plane and its protocols introduce new vulnerabilities which affect the security of the network infrastructure and the patients’ safety. The paper at hand proposes an SDN/NFV-based architecture for the mobile edge computing infrastructure to detect and mitigate cybersecurity attacks exploiting SDN vulnerabilities of ICE in real time and on-demand. A motivating example and experiments presented in this paper demonstrate the feasibility of of the proposed architecture in a realistic clinical scenario.

集成临床环境（ICE）和下一代移动网络的发展使未来的医院及其创新的临床方案成为现实。移动边缘计算范式与网络功能虚拟化技术以及软件定义的网络范式一起实现了组成临床环境的医疗设备和数据管理过程的自我管理，适应性和安全性。但是，SDN控制平面及其协议的逻辑集中式方法引入了新的漏洞，这些漏洞影响网络基础结构的安全性和患者的安全。本文提出了一种基于SDN / NFV的架构，用于移动边缘计算基础架构，以实时，按需利用ICE的SDN漏洞来检测和缓解网络安全攻击。本文中提供的一个激励性示例和实验证明了所提出的体系结构在实际临床场景中的可行性。