e-Energy, is the 3rd International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking, which is organized annually since 2010. Due to the increasing significance of power consumption in computing and networking, the goal of e-Energy is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners working in this area to discuss recent and innovative results, as well as identify future directions and challenges. The continuing spread of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has contributed much to the reduction of energy consumption in many areas of everyday life. Nevertheless ICT infrastructure continues to expand in capacity and reach, and needs to be more energy-efficient itself. Additionally, ICT can be used to optimize the production, transport and consumption of energy in other setups.

The conference addresses the varied fields of servers and communication infrastructures, services in data centers, end-systems in home and office environments, broadband access networks, sensor networks, cloud computing, smart grids and future networks such as The Internet of Things.

The 3rd e-Energy Conference will be held from May 9th to 11th, 2012 and will be organized by Institute IMDEA Networks and the University Carlos III of Madrid. The first edition of e-Energy was held in 2010, in Passau (Germany), with more than 100 participants, and the second edition will take place this year, from May 30th to June 1st, at Columbia University of New York City (USA).

The topics of interest for the 2012 e-Energy Conference include, but are not limited to:

Instrumentation and measurement of energy-efficient computing and networking
Energy and performance profiling, accounting of energy consumption
Metrics, benchmarks, interfaces, tools
Monitoring and management concepts
Energy, performance, quality of service and other resource trade offs
Energy-efficient networking and protocols
Energy-efficient high-capacity optical transport
Energy-efficient modulation formats
Energy-efficient access networks (wired and wireless)
Energy-efficient Cloud computing
Energy-efficient peer-to-peer networking and overlays
Future energy-efficient architectures
Energy-efficient application design
Load, heat, and resource modeling
Load, heat, and resource management
Reliability and power management
Energy-efficient grid, cloud, and data-center technology
Energy efficiency and virtualization
Energy efficiency, resource sharing and security
SmartGrids: new computing and networking contributions
Sensing techniques and sensor networks for energy awareness
Energy-efficient network components (switches, routers, transceivers, amplifiers, etc.)
Energy-efficient cloud computing
Design methodologies and tools for energy-efficient services
Security challenges in energy-efficient computing and networking
Energy-demand reduction techniques