To bring large-scale AIoT to reality, wireless networks need intelligence to identify resources in a non-contiguous spectrum. We address this challenge via a sub-Nyquist sampling-based wideband spectrum analyzer deployed in AIoT gateway. The non-contiguous nature demands learning the channel occupancy. However, the identification of channel status can fail when the number of busy channels in a selected subset is higher than the number of ADCs, K. We model this subset selection problem as Multi-Play Multi-Armed Bandit. First, we demonstrate the learnability of such a problem via a learning algorithm with a subset size of K (no sensing failure). For wideband sparse spectrum, we extend this algorithm using a novel subset size estimation approach to identify the optimal subset that gives the best possible throughput and could have a size potentially larger than K. These algorithms are mapped on the system-on-chip, and their in-depth performance analysis demonstrates their superiority over state-of-the-art.
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