Layer-2 management entity messaging framework in a network

A machine readable medium encoded with program code, wherein when the program code is executed by a processor, the processor performs a communications method comprising the steps of:

• performing at least one Layer 2 transaction comprising a plurality of wave cycles, each Layer 2 transaction including:
• performing a first wave cycle comprising:
• broadcasting a first request from a network coordinator to a plurality of nodes connected to a coordinated network, and
• receiving a first response from one or more of the nodes indicating that the nodes have opted to participate in a next subsequent wave cycle,
• concatenating the received first responses from each of the one or more nodes;
• performing a second wave cycle comprising:
• transmitting a subsequent request from the network coordinator to each of the one or more nodes based upon the concatenated first responses.