The Consensus problem is recognized as a central paradigm of fault-tolerant distributed computing. In a purely asynchronous system, consensus is impossible to solve in a deterministic manner. By enriching the system with some synchrony assumptions, several solutions were proposed in order to circumvent the impossibility result, among which the Paxos protocol. This work represents a contribution to the construction of efficient consensus protocols in asynchronous distributed systems. The algorithmic contribution of the thesis consists of an efficient framework, called the Paxos-MIC protocol, that follows the Paxos approach and integrates two existing optimizations. Paxos-MIC generates a sequence of consensus instances and guarantees the pers...