A system for dynamically shifting beacons in a distributed wireless
network and a method thereof are disclosed. In a medium access control
for a wireless personal area network based on a mobile ad-hoc network,
beacons are shifted to other free lower slots in order to reduce the size
of a beacon period. Also, collisions that may occur during the shifting
of the beacons are detected and avoided. According to the system and
method, the size of the beacon period for transmitting data can
sufficiently be secured by dynamically reducing the size of the beacon
period without collisions.