Gj. Pottie et Ar. Calderbank, FURTHER ASYMPTOTIC UPPER-BOUNDS ON THE MINIMUM DISTANCE OF TRELLIS CODES, IEEE transactions on information theory, 39(4), 1993, pp. 1428-1431
Asymptotic upper bounds on the minimum distance of trellis codes are d
erived. A universal bound and bounds specific to PSK and QAM signal se
ts are obtained.