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 scheme within the framework of sensor-MAC (S-MAC).
Pattern-MAC (PMAC) protocol, instead of having fixed sleepwakeups,
the sleep-wakeup schedules of the sensor nodes are
adaptively determined. The schedules are decided based on a
node’s own traffic and that of its neighbors.
X-MAC, a low power MAC
protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Standard
MAC protocols developed for duty-cycled WSNs such as
BMAC, which is the default MAC protocol for TinyOS, employ
an extended preamble and preamble sampling.
