Heidi Howard

Heidi Howard

University of Cambridge

H-index: 13

Europe-United Kingdom

About Heidi Howard

Heidi Howard, With an exceptional h-index of 13 and a recent h-index of 13 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Cambridge, specializes in the field of Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Distributed Algorithms, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Consensus.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Two-Round Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) State Machine Replication (SMR) Protocol with Linear Authenticator Complexity and Optimistic Responsiveness

Scalable, Interpretable Distributed Protocol Verification by Inductive Proof Slicing

Unanimous 2PC: Fault-tolerant Distributed Transactions Can be Fast and Simple

Bigger, not Badder: Safely Scaling BFT Protocols

Optimizing Distributed Protocols with Query Rewrites

Mutating etcd Towards Edge Suitability

Confidential Consortium Framework: Secure Multiparty Applications with Confidentiality, Integrity, and High Availability

BeeGees: stayin'alive in chained BFT

Heidi Howard Information

University

Position

Research Fellow in Computer Science at

Citations(all)

804

Citations(since 2020)

587

Cited By

391

hIndex(all)

13

hIndex(since 2020)

13

i10Index(all)

13

i10Index(since 2020)

13

Email

University Profile Page

University of Cambridge

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Heidi Howard Skills & Research Interests

Distributed Systems

Cloud Computing

Distributed Algorithms

Fault Tolerance

Distributed Consensus

Top articles of Heidi Howard

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Two-Round Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) State Machine Replication (SMR) Protocol with Linear Authenticator Complexity and Optimistic Responsiveness

2023/11/7

Scalable, Interpretable Distributed Protocol Verification by Inductive Proof Slicing

arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18048

William Schultz

Edward Ashton

Heidi Howard

Stavros Tripakis

2024/4/28

Unanimous 2PC: Fault-tolerant Distributed Transactions Can be Fast and Simple

Chris Jensen

Heidi Howard

Antonios Katsarakis

Richard Mortier

2024/4/22

Bigger, not Badder: Safely Scaling BFT Protocols

David CY Chu

Chris Liu

Natacha Crooks

Joseph M Hellerstein

Heidi Howard

2024/4/22

Optimizing Distributed Protocols with Query Rewrites

Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

David CY Chu

Rithvik Panchapakesan

Shadaj Laddad

Lucky E Katahanas

Chris Liu

...

2024/3/26

Mutating etcd Towards Edge Suitability

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09929

Andrew Jeffery

Heidi Howard

Richard Mortier

2023/11/16

Confidential Consortium Framework: Secure Multiparty Applications with Confidentiality, Integrity, and High Availability

arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11559

Heidi Howard

Fritz Alder

Edward Ashton

Amaury Chamayou

Sylvan Clebsch

...

2023/10/17

BeeGees: stayin'alive in chained BFT

Neil Giridharan

Florian Suri-Payer

Matthew Ding

Heidi Howard

Ittai Abraham

...

2023/6/19

Relaxed Paxos: quorum intersection revisited (again)

Heidi Howard

Richard Mortier

2022/4/5

Brief Announcement: It’s not easy to relax: liveness in chained BFT protocols

Ittai Abraham

Natacha Crooks

Neil Giridharan

Heidi Howard

Florian Suri-Payer

2022

Relaxed Paxos

Heidi Howard

Richard Mortier

2022/4/5

Rearchitecting kubernetes for the edge

Andrew Jeffery

Heidi Howard

Richard Mortier

2021/4/26

Matchmaker paxos: A reconfigurable consensus protocol

arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09468

Michael Whittaker

Neil Giridharan

Adriana Szekeres

Joseph M Hellerstein

Heidi Howard

...

2020/7/18

Fast flexible paxos: Relaxing quorum intersection for fast paxos

Heidi Howard

Aleksey Charapko

Richard Mortier

2021/1/5

Scaling replicated state machines with compartmentalization

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Michael Whittaker

Ailidani Ailijiang

Aleksey Charapko

Murat Demirbas

Neil Giridharan

...

2021/7/1

Examining Raft's behaviour during partial network failures

Chris Jensen

Heidi Howard

Richard Mortier

2021/4/26

No-commit proofs: Defeating livelock in bft

Cryptology ePrint Archive

Neil Giridharan

Heidi Howard

Ittai Abraham

Natacha Crooks

Alin Tomescu

2021

Read-write quorum systems made practical

Michael Whittaker

Aleksey Charapko

Joseph M Hellerstein

Heidi Howard

Ion Stoica

2021/4/26

Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

Heidi Howard

Richard Mortier

2020/4/27

Byzantine eventual consistency and the fundamental limits of peer-to-peer databases

arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00472

Martin Kleppmann

Heidi Howard

2020/12/1

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