A Framework for the Optimal $k$ -Coverage Deployment Patterns of Wireless Sensors

The strategy for node deployment to achieve multiple connectivity and coverage plays an important role in various wireless senor network applications. To alleviate the operational cost, the number of nodes to be deployed needs to be reduced. While the optimal k-connectivity deployment patterns (k ≤ 6) and the multiple k-coverage problem (k ≤ 3) have been extensively studied for 2-D networks, a gen...