In one embodiment, a method comprises: identifying, by a network management device, a location-based device group in a wireless data network comprising constrained wireless network devices, including identifying an identified subset of the constrained wireless network devices as member devices based on the member devices having respective physical locations within the location-based device group; identifying, by the network management device, a member device density for the location-based device group; setting by the network management device, for the location-based device group, a set of deployment group network parameters based on the member device density; and sending, by the network management device, the set of deployment group network parameters to the location-based device group for density-based deployment thereof by the member devices.