Overall, what still needs to be completed is:
- Layer-2 eNB-to-eNB link
- Layer-3 IP mobility
- Frequency marketplace
- Ethernet RRH
- Field deployment
For Layer-2 Peering, we need to integrate results of Milestone 7 and tasks: SO-OSTV-30-10-10 and SO-OSTV-30-10-20.
For Layer-3 IP mobility, we need to integrate Paris 7 results which were just completed a few days ago, and a few days after MWC 2019.
For Frequency marketplace, which is actually a condition for legal deployment by verifying that a frequency can be licensed for a given area, we wil get the help from a company in Finland called Fairspectrum. Sweden and nordic countries have a nice way of managing frequencies. If a frequency is not used somewhere by a telco, as part of the auction attribution, citizens may use it to provide the service which the telco does not provide. It would be good to do the same in France. This would solve once and for all the problem of uncovered areas (France has less LTE coverage than many third-world countries).
We need an RRH with open source drivers, else it creates huge security or compatiblity issues with Linux kernel. An Ethernet RRH would be ideal.
We need also a field test which can use all technologies at once.
We believe that 6 months is not enough to achieve this so it would be better to extend the project. One year is probably reasonable.