Last year, IEEE 802.11 Extremely High Throughput Study Group (EHT Study
Group) was established to initiate discussions on new IEEE 802.11 features.
Coordinated control methods of the access points (APs) in the wireless local
area networks (WLANs) are discussed in EHT Study Group. The present study
proposes a deep reinforcement learning-based channel allocation scheme using
graph convolutional networks (GCNs). As a deep reinforcement learning method,
we use a well-known method double deep Q-network. In densely deployed WLANs,
the number of the available topologies of APs is extremely high, and thus we
extract the features of the topological structures based on GCNs. We apply GCNs
to a contention graph where APs within their carrier sensing ranges are
connected to extract the features of carrier sensing relationships.
Additionally, to improve the learning speed especially in an early stage of
learning, we employ a game theory-based method to collect the training data
independently of the neural network model. The simulation results indicate that
the proposed method can appropriately control the channels when compared to
extant methods.

该研究旨在提出一种基于深度强化学习和图卷积网络的信道分配方案，使用 GCNs 提取 AP 拓扑结构的特征，进而在竞争图中提高学习速度和控制信道。该方法在模拟实验中表现优于现有方法。