Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET) is an example of Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) that uses moving cars as nodes in a network to create a mobile network. They are popular for life safety applications and internet access applications. There is a no. of issues which are to be resolved for the VANETs and Media Access Protocols (MAC) is one of them. In this paper we will discuss about the performance of 802.11 based MAC protocols i.e. PCF and EDCF. We analyzed the performance of PCF and EDCF protocols in terms of delay and throughput for different types of traffic which are voice, video, HTTP and remote login. The two protocols show different delay and throughput for each type of service during simulation. The simulator OPNET modeler 14.5 has been used to simulate the protocols over same scenario. The simulation results shown that the EDCF protocol performs better than PCF in VANETs
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