In next generation mobile networks (beyond 3G, 4G), it is expected that traffic will be a mixture of diverse traffic classes, such as data and multimedia, each posing different Quality of Service (QoS) demands. Adhoc wireless networks should be able to deal with all these traffic classes efficiently and achieve high capacity. Due to this variability of demands on the network, new adaptive Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols appear necessary to be developed, taking into consideration the peculiarities of adhoc networks. Such networks are self organizing and independent from the support of central controlling instances.
