EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 3 Comparison between LTE and WiFi

From: Context-aware radio resource management below 6 GHz for enabling dynamic channel assignment in the 5G era

	LTE	WiFi
Spectrum access	Licensed	Unlicensed
Channel bandwidths	1.4, 3 5, 10, 15, 20 MHz	5, 10, 20 MHz
Channel access method	Centralized	Contention-based
Physical layer	OFDMA/SC-FDMA	OFDM-CSMA
Optimized for mobility	Yes	No

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