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360° video camera sensing is an increasingly popular technology. Compared with traditional 2D video systems, it is challenging to ensure the viewing experience in 360° video camera sensing because the massive omnidirectional data introduce adverse effects on start-up delay, event-to-eye delay, and frame rate. Therefore, understanding the time consumption of computing tasks in 360° video camera sensing becomes the prerequisite to improving the system’s delay performance and viewing experience. Despite the prior measurement studies on 360° video systems, none of them delves into the system pipeline and dissects the latency at the task level. In this paper, we perform the first in-depth measurement study of task-level time consumption for 360° video camera sensing. We start with identifying the subtle relationship between the three delay metrics and the time consumption breakdown across the system computing task. Next, we develop an open research prototype Zeus to characterize this relationship in various realistic usage scenarios. Our measurement of task-level time consumption demonstrates the importance of the camera CPU-GPU transfer and the server initialization, as well as the negligible effect of 360° video stitching on the delay metrics. Finally, we compare Zeus with a commercial system to validate that our results are representative and can be used to improve today’s 360° video camera sensing systems. 

2D molecular entities build next-generation electronic devices, where abundant elements of organic molecules are attractive due to the modern synthetic and stimuli control through chemical, conformational, and electronic modifications in electronics. Despite its promising potential, the insufficient control over charge states and electronic stabilities must be overcome in molecular electronic devices. Here, we show the reversible switching of modulated charge states in an exfoliatable 2D-layered molecular conductor based on bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene molecular dimers. The multiple stimuli application of cooling rate, current, voltage, and laser irradiation in a concurrent manner facilitates the controllable manipulation of charge crystal, glass, liquid, and metal phases. The four orders of magnitude switching of electric resistance are triggered by stimuli-responsive charge distribution among molecular dimers. The tunable charge transport in 2D molecular conductors reveals the kinetic process of charge configurations under stimuli, promising to add electric functions in molecular circuitry.

 

We present improved distributed algorithms for variants of the triangle finding problem in the model. We show that triangle detection, counting, and enumeration can be solved in rounds using expander decompositions . This matches the triangle enumeration lower bound of by Izumi and Le Gall [PODC’17] and Pandurangan, Robinson, and Scquizzato [SPAA’18], which holds even in the model. The previous upper bounds for triangle detection and enumeration in were and , respectively, due to Izumi and Le Gall [PODC’17]. An -expander decomposition of a graph is a clustering of the vertices such that (i) each cluster induces a subgraph with conductance at least and (ii) the number of inter-cluster edges is at most . We show that an -expander decomposition with can be constructed in rounds for any and positive integer . For example, a -expander decomposition only requires rounds to compute, which is optimal up to subpolynomial factors, and a -expander decomposition can be computed in rounds, for any arbitrarily small constant . Our triangle finding algorithms are based on the following generic framework using expander decompositions, which is of independent interest. We first construct an expander decomposition. For each cluster, we simulate algorithms with small overhead by applying the expander routing algorithm due to Ghaffari, Kuhn, and Su [PODC’17] Finally, we deal with inter-cluster edges using recursive calls.