Receive diversity based transmission data rate optimization for improved network lifetime and delay efficiency of Wireless Body Area Networks

• K. Senthil Kumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: K. Senthil Kumar, R. Amutha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: senthilkumar.kumaraswamy@rajalakshmi.edu.in

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-4763

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• R. Amutha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: K. Senthil Kumar, R. Amutha

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India

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• M. Palanivelan ,

  Roles Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• D. Gururaj ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• S. Richard Jebasingh ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• M. Anitha Mary ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• S. Anitha ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• V. Savitha ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• R. Priyanka ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• Amruth Balachandran ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• H. Adithya ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• Asher Shaji ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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• Anchana C.

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

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