The rapid proliferation of lightweight wireless
mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs, and sensors
makes mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) an
exciting and important research area nowadays.
The MANET community have been concentrating
on some problems related to the network layer,
especially on the routing protocols. But regarding
the MAC layer, little has been done. Our contri-
bution in this paper is the deep investigation of
the MAC protocols scalability in MANETs, using
the GloMoSim simulation tool. We think we are
the first who consider the scalability factor when
analyzing MAC protocols in MANETs.
