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Query: Penalized and Decentralized Contextual Bandit Learning for WLAN Channel
  Allocation with Contention-Driven Feature Extraction   In this study, a contextual multi-armed bandit (CMAB)-based decentralized
channel exploration framework disentangling a channel utility function (i.e.,
reward) with respect to contending neighboring access points (APs) is proposed.
The proposed framework enables APs to evaluate observed rewards compositionally
for contending APs, allowing both robustness against reward fluctuation due to
neighboring APs' varying channels and assessment of even unexplored channels.
To realize this framework, we propose contention-driven feature extraction
(CDFE), which extracts the adjacency relation among APs under contention and
forms the basis for expressing reward functions in the disentangled form, that
is, a linear combination of parameters associated with neighboring APs under
contention). This allows the CMAB to be leveraged with joint a linear upper
confidence bound (JLinUCB) exploration and to delve into the effectiveness of
the proposed framework. Moreover, we address the problem of non-convergence --
the channel exploration cycle -- by proposing a penalized JLinUCB (P-JLinUCB)
based on the key idea of introducing a discount parameter to the reward for
exploiting a different channel before and after the learning round. Numerical
evaluations confirm that the proposed method allows APs to assess the channel
quality robustly against reward fluctuations by CDFE and achieves better
convergence properties by P-JLinUCB.

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