@inproceedings{Ai-2004-ISCC, 
   author = "J. Ai and J. Kong and D.Turgut",
   title = "An Adaptive Coordinated Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks",
   booktitle = "The 9th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2004)",
   location = "Alexandria, Egypt",
   month = "June",
   year = "2004",
   pages = "214-219",
   abstract = {In this paper, we have developed 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). The novelty of our protocol is that it
   improves latency and throughput under a wide range of traffic loads while
   remaining as energy-efficient as S-MAC. We illustrate such optimized
   trade-offs of AC-MAC via extensive simulations performed over wireless sensor
   networks. Our simulation results show that AC-MAC is as energy-efficient as
   S-MAC while its latency and throughput are always trying to follow the
   classic IEEE 802.11 MAC (no duty cycle), which outperform the S-MAC (fixed
   duty cycle), specially under the heavy load.},
}