Adaptive Coordinated Medium Access Control (AC-MAC), a contention-based Medium Access Control protocol for wireless sensor networks. To handle the load variations in some real-time sensor applications, ACMAC introduces the adaptive duty cycle sch

T-MAC introduces an adaptive duty cycle in a novel way: by dynamically ending the active part of it. This reduces the amount of energy wasted on idle listening, in which nodes wait for potentially incoming messages, while still maintaining a reasonab