An Efficient Orthogonal Grid Drawing Algorithm for Cubic Graphs

In this paper we present a new algorithm that constructs an orthogonal drawing of a graph $G$ with degree at most three. Even if we do not require any limitations neither to planar nor to biconnected graphs, we reach the best known results in the literarture: each edge has at most 1 bend, the total number of bends is $\leq {n \over 2}+1$, and the area is $\leq ({n \over 2}-1)^2$.