TY  - JOUR
T1  - Survey of Wireless Network MAC Protocols Using Reinforcement Learning
AU  - Park, Jun-young 
AU  - Na, Woongsoo 
JO  - The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/1/1
DO  - 10.7840/kics.2025.50.8.1265
KW  - Wireless Network MAC Protocol
KW  - Machine Learning
KW  - Reinforcement Learning. 5G & 6G Network
AB  - In wireless networks with increasing demand and diverse environments, numerous issues such as collisions, delays, fairness, and power consumption are arising. Research is being discussed to enhance protocol performance by resolving or minimizing these issues using artificial intelligence technologies. This paper investigates studies that have applied reinforcement learning techniques to address the aforementioned problems in the MAC protocols of wireless network environments. It examines the issues present in wireless network MAC protocols and explores how reinforcement learning has been utilized. Finally, it outlines the challenges that need to be addressed in the future.