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University: Florida Institute of Technology Name of sponsoring Professor: Dr. Mehdi M. Shahsavari Department: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Application-specific Routing Scheme for Indoor Wireless Localization Systems We want to develop a novel application-specific routing scheme for indoor wireless localization systems. Our research focuses on the communication in an RF-based indoor wireless localization system. We assume that each unit has one ISM 900MHz-band transceiver antenna and is able to determine its own relative position in the system by listening to other units’ periodic beacon signals. The other goal of this research is to develop an application-specific scheme for information routing and topology control among gateway units with maximum reliability, flexibility, adaptability and minimum latency. We would want to simulate the feasibility of our two-protocol routing scheme. We compare our scheme to several generic routing methods and demonstrated improvements in terms of robustness, latency, traffic-awareness, and throughput. We also would like to show that the use of multiple protocols in our application-specific wireless indoor localization system will enhance the system performance.