1. The document proposes a correlation-based collaborative MAC protocol called SCC-MAC to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. 2. SCC-MAC contains two components - E-MAC filters out redundant event information while N-MAC prioritizes forwarding of filtered data to the sink. 3. Simulations show that SCC-MAC achieves significant gains in energy consumption, goodput, and packet drop rate compared to existing MAC protocols by allowing only a subset of sensor nodes to transmit data.