“…Let the optimal AP and FC deployments, cell partitions and index map be denoted by P * = (p * 1 , ..., p * N ), Q * = (q * 1 , ..., q * M ), R * = (R * 1 , ..., R * N ) and T * , respectively. In what follows, we determine the properties of such an optimal node deployment (P * , Q * , R * , T * ) that minimizes the twotier distortion in (3). Note that the index map only appears in the second term of Eq.…”