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TopMany researchers (Bhardwaj & Chandrakasan, 2002; Haenggi, 2003; Kalpakis, Dasgupta, & Namjoshi, 2002; Krishnamachari & Ordonez, 2003; Pan, Hou, Cai, Shi, & Shen, 2003; Sadagopan & Krishnamachari, 2004) focused their efforts on increasing the lifespan of sensor devices by reducing the coverage. Researchers (Shih, Cho, Ickes, Min, Sinha, Wang, & Chandrakasan, 2001; Woo & Cullar, 2001; Ye, Heidemann, & Estrin, 2002) focused on the physical and media access layers within WSN, where others focused their research on routing and transport protocols (Braginsky & Estrin, 2002; Ganesan, Govidan, Shenkar, & Estrin, 2001; Heinzelman, Chandrakasan, & Balarishnan, 2000). Also, researchers (Bahl & Padmanabhan, 2000; Nicules & Nath, 2003; Savvide, Han, & Strivastava, 2001) focused on localization and position applications of WSN. However, all the above research activities have assumed that the coverage problem is predetermined.