Techniques are disclosed for adaptive coding and scheduling of packets in wireless networks. The adaptive coding and scheduling can be achieved by utilizing a discrete water filling (DWF) scheme. In an example, a computer-implemented method to adaptively code and schedule packets in a wireless network may include determining number of paths between a sender and a receiver in a multipath (MP) network, determining erasure rates for each path of the paths between the sender and the receiver, and determining a multipath rate. The method may also include determining a coding bucket size based on the multipath rate and determining a multipath delay for the coding bucket size and the erasure rates. In another example, the adaptive coding and scheduling techniques can be applied to a multihop multipath (MM) network.