Abstract: This paper proposes a hybrid duty-cycle Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol named as On-demand Synchronous X-MAC (OSX-MAC) to improve the performance of the X-MAC protocol. X-MAC, one of ...

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Model Context Protocol, Agent2Agent protocol, and Agent Communication Protocol take slightly different approaches to AI agent communications. Let’s unpack them. Unlike traditional AI models that ...