Managing wireless IP-connectivity experiences as mobile social media

Social media is the meaningful digital content that results from interaction or collaboration between users through web-based applications, e.g. blogs and virtual communities. While on the move, people can create or consume mobile social media using portable devices with IP-connectivity. Connectivity is a fundamental resource for these users that are going from one location to another using heterogeneous multi-access systems. Our hypothesis is that mobile user's IP-connectivity experiences can be represented, implemented and handled as mobile social media. Thus, these set of particular experiences can be combined in a mobile virtual community to be shared among the members. The ultimate goal is improve the quality of member's experiences in a common environment. We proposed a model to represent and combine user's connectivity experiences. A prototype has been implemented, and experiments were performed in an indoor testbed during few months. The results show that our solution converges to better experiences, even with a small community.