A system and method for enhancing lifetime and throughput in a distributed wireless network is disclosed herein. The method may include sensing, by a first machine, different parameters of at least one neighboring machine; updating, by the first machine, at least one parameter of said first machine based on said sensed parameters of said neighboring machine; generating, by the first machine, a signed-graph on the basis of the updated parameter, wherein said generated graph comprises at least two nodes representing said updated parameter and at least one edge interconnecting said two nodes; iteratively updating, by the first machine, the at least one parameter at different time-scales until convergence is achieved; and communicating, by the first machine, inter-layer updates in individual layers of a transmission protocol stack of the first machine due to said update of at least one parameter.