Generalized upper bounds on the minimum distance of PSK block codes

This paper generalizes previous optimal upper bounds on the minimum Euclidean distance for phase shift keying (PSK) block codes, that are explicit in three parameters: alphabet size, block length and code size. The bounds are primarily generalized from codes over symmetric PSK to codes over asymmetric PSK and also to general alphabet size. Furthermore, block codes are optimized in the presence of other types of noise than Gaussian, which induces also non-Euclidean distance measures. In some instances, codes over asymmetric PSK prove to give higher Euclidean distance than any code over symmetric PSK with the same parameters. We also provide certain classes of codes that are optimal among codes over symmetric PSK.