What is CINT?

Center for Information Networking and Telecommunications (CINT) represents the culmination of approximately fifteen years of research cooperation of faculty members from three City College departments in the fields of high speed, multimedia, multiservice, integrated wired and wireless networks. Presently, there are five faculty from electrical engineering and three from computer science, as well as one from the economics department. The associated research staff consists of twelve electrical engineering Ph.D. students and three Master’s students, also electrical engineers. Necessary experimentation is performed in a well equipped Networking Systems Laboratory.

The Center’s present research work on telecommunications and information distribution is largely supported by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) by way of the “ ARL Collaborative Technology Alliance on Communications and Networks” ( approximately $2.5 million, five year contract). The CINT research aims to enhance the mobile communications environment on the battle field. Such an environment is characterized by severe communications bandwidth and energy constraints, while providing secure, jam-resistant communications in a noisy, hostile, wireless surroundings.

Before this, all research and the related doctoral education activity, had been funded since 1989 by external grants and contracts from government agencies and industry to the extent of more than $3.3 million. These sponsors included various U.S. Army organizations (ARL, Communications-Electronics Command, Army Research Office), the National Science Foundation, the New York State and the New York City Departments of Transportation. Industry is represented by Telcordia, Panasonic, AT&T, and Lockheed-Sanders.

The Center is justly proud of the twenty Ph.D. students who have earned their degrees over the past dozen years. All have substantially contributed to the advancement of the telecommunications specialty with their dissertation research and now hold leadership positions in industry and academia. Faculty members and previous doctoral students have an outstanding publications record, consisting of many journal contributions and reviewed conference proceedings, as well as a number of books and patents.

Finally, the group’s faculty members play a major part in teaching the undergraduate and graduate networking courses offered by the electrical engineering and computer science departments at the City College.