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- the invention relates to a digital communications system and more specifically to modulation methods facilitating fading distortion compensation that performs a quasi-synchronous detection using a pilot signal.
- the envelope of information signals or symbols is distorted (i.e., the phases and the amplitudes of information signals involves phase errors and amplitude errors) due to fading.
- the phase error of the received signal causes an error in the frequency of a local oscillator in the receiver.
- the error of the local oscillation frequency with respect to the carrier frequency is hereinafter referred to as a “frequency offset”.
- the phase error (or frequency offset) and the amplitude error of the received signal have to be estimated and compensated for in the receiver.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a signal constellation used in this 16-QAM system.
- small black-filled circles indicate 16 signal points in an in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) plane.
- One of the signal points with the maximum amplitude, that is, any of the signal points A, B, C and D is assigned to a pilot signal.
- a pilot signal is inserted in every frame or every N ⁇ 1 information symbols (assuming that N symbols constitute one frame) in a transmitter.
- the estimation and compensation of distortions (due to fading) of information signals or symbols are achieved by interpolation using the pilot signals.
- a point that differs in phase from any of the signal points for possible information symbols and that is larger in amplitude than any of the signal points is selected for a pilot signal point in a signal constellation (or a signal point map plotted on a in-phase and quadrature-phase plane).
- a pilot signal is inserted in every frame or every predetermined number of information signals.
- the fading distortion of each of the pilot signals regularly inserted in the received signals is determined.
- the fading distortions of the information signals are estimated by interpolation using the determined fading distortion of the pilot signal, and then compensated for.
- the amplitude of the pilot signal is set not larger than 1.6 times a maximum possible amplitude of the information signals.
- the frequency band of each information signal is preferably limited with a roll-off filter with a roll-off coefficient ranging from 0.1 to 0.4.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a signal constellation used in this 16-QAM system
- FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing a part of an illustrative embodiment of a mobile telephone terminal that incorporates a fading distortion compensation system in accordance with the principles of the invention
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary signal constellation for 16-APSK (amplitude phase shift keying) used in a first example
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a symbol stream transmitted in a digital communication system that serves the mobile telephone terminal 1 of FIG. 1 ;
- FIGS. 5 through 8 are signal constellations for m -QAM, 16-QAM, 8-PSK and QPSK according to the principles of the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing a part of an illustrative embodiment of a mobile telephone terminal 1 that incorporates a fading distortion compensation system in accordance with the principles of the invention.
- a transmission system (shown in upper part of FIG. 2 ) of the mobile telephone terminal 1 includes a serial-to-parallel (S/P) converter 10 ; a base band signal generator 20 having its input connected with a converter 10 output; a pilot (or frame) signal inserter 110 having its in-phase (I) input and quadrature-phase (Q) input connected with respective outputs of the base band signal generator 20 ; low pass filters (LPF) 30 having their inputs connected with pilot signal inserter 110 outputs; a radio transmitter portion 40 having its I and Q inputs connected with I and Q LPF 30 outputs, respectively; an antenna duplexer 50 having transmission input connected with the transmitter portion 40 output; and an antenna 60 used for both transmission and reception.
- S/P serial-to-parallel
- LPF low pass filters
- a reception system (shown in lower part of FIG. 2 ) of the mobile telephone terminal 1 includes a radio receiver portion 70 having its input connected with a duplexer 50 reception output; LPFs 80 having their input connected with radio receiver portion 70 I and Q outputs; a fading distortion compensator 100 having its I and Q inputs connected with respective LPF 80 outputs; and a decision maker 90 , having its input connected with a compensator 100 output, for providing received data.
- the fading distortion compensator 100 includes a phase error estimator 120 , an amplitude error estimator 130 and a phase and amplitude compensator 140 .
- the mobile telephone terminal 1 further includes a controller 170 for controlling overall operation of the terminal 1 .
- binary data is supplied in the form of a bitstream to the S/P converter 10 .
- the S/P converter 10 converts the serial binary data into a parallel data of a predetermined number of bits.
- the base band signal generator 20 generates an in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components or signals for a symbol associated with the parallel data.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary signal constellation for 16-APSK (amplitude phase shift keying) used in a first example.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation of the pilot signal inserter 110 of FIG. 3 .
- small black-filled circles indicate information symbols and small white-filled circles indicate pilot (or frame) symbols.
- the information symbol stream supplied from the base band signal generator 20 is shown in the upper part of FIG. 4 .
- the pilot signal inserter 110 inserts a pilot signal PS in every predetermined number of information symbols, say, N ⁇ 1 symbols S 1 , . . . S N ⁇ 1 to make a frame of N symbols S 0 , S 1 , . . . S N ⁇ 1 as shown in FIG. 4 .
- N ⁇ 1 symbols S 1 , . . . S N ⁇ 1 to make a frame of N symbols S 0 , S 1 , . . . S N ⁇ 1 as shown in FIG. 4 .
- PS I R * cos ⁇ ( ⁇ 4 + ⁇ 8 )
- PS Q R * sin ⁇ ( ⁇ 4 + ⁇ 8 )
- R is the amplitude of the pilot signal PS.
- the pilot signal amplitude R for a range larger than the maximum amplitude Rmax of the information symbols and not larger than 1.6 times the maximum amplitude Rmax, that is,
- each signal Sj is processed in the form of corresponding I and Q components Sj I and Sj Q .
- the signals Sj from the pilot signal inserter 110 is limited in frequency band by the LPFs 30 .
- the LPFs 30 are preferably roll-off filters (or Nyquist filters) having the following characteristic:
- H ⁇ ( ⁇ ) ⁇ 1 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 0 ⁇ ( 1 - ⁇ ) 1 2 ⁇ [ 1 - sin ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 ⁇ ⁇ 0 ⁇ ( ⁇ - ⁇ 0 ) ) ] ⁇ 0 ⁇ ( 1 - ⁇ ) ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 0 ⁇ ( 1 + ⁇ ) 0 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 0 ⁇ ( 1 + ⁇ ) ( 3 )
- H( ⁇ ) is a amplitude characteristic of the roll-off filters 30
- ⁇ is an angular frequency
- ⁇ 0 is a Nyquist angular frequency
- ⁇ is a roll-off coefficient. It is preferable to set the roll-off coefficient ⁇ for a range from 0.1 to 0.4.
- the filtered signals are modulated and amplified by the radio transmitter portion 40 , and eventually transmitted via the duplexer 50 and the antenna 60 .
- the I and Q components of the received signals received by the antenna 50 , the duplexer 60 and the radio receiver portion 70 is filtered by the LPFs 80 and supplied to the phase error estimator 120 , the amplitude error estimator 130 and the phase and amplitude compensator 140 .
- the phase error estimator 120 provides an estimated phase error signal to the compensator 140 .
- the phase and amplitude compensator 140 responsively compensates each information signal by using the estimated phase and amplitude error signals to provide compensated I and Q components.
- the decision maker 90 provides data associated with the compensated I and Q components.
- the invention enables the bit error rate to be reduced without influencing on the ratio of peak to average power at the amplifier (AMP) 44 in the radio transmission portion 40 because the precision in estimation of frequency and amplitude errors of the information signals is enhanced.
- FIGS. 5 through 8 are signal constellations for 2 m -QAM (m ⁇ 3), 16-QAM, 8-PSK and QPSK according to the principles of the invention.
- IS i I s (2 m-1 a 1 +2 m-2 a 2 + . . . +2 0 a m )
- the pilot signal PS is disposed on either of the I and Q axes such that the amplitude (R) of PS is larger than that (Ri) of any possible symbol points.
- the pilot signal is disposed on the positive range of the I axis.
- the pilot signal PS is preferably disposed on either of the I and Q axes such that the amplitude (R) of PS is larger than that (Ri) of any possible symbol points ISi as shown in FIG. 6
- the pilot signal PS is preferably disposed so as to make an angle of ⁇ /8 with adjacent information points
- PS I R * cos ⁇ ( ⁇ 4 + ⁇ 8 )
- PS Q R * sin ⁇ ( ⁇ 4 + ⁇ 8 )
- the pilot signal PS is preferably disposed so as to make an angle of ⁇ /4 with adjacent information points
- PS I R * cos ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 ⁇ ( 1 + i ) )
- PS Q R * sin ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 ⁇ ( 1 + i ) ) .
Abstract
In a digital communication system such as a mobile radio system, fading distortion is compensated with a raised precision. In a transmitter, pilot signals are regularly inserted in the information signals. The amplitude of the pilot signals are set larger than the maximum possible amplitude of the information signals. The modulation scheme of the pilot signals may be different from that of the information signals. In a receiver, the fading distortion of each of the pilot signals is determined. The fading distortions of the information signals are estimated by interpolation using the determined fading distortion of the pilot signal, and then compensated. The frequency band of each information signal is preferably limited with a roll-off filter with a roll-off coefficient ranging from 0.1 to 0.4.
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- This application is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 10/601,591 filed on Jun. 24, 2003, which is a Divisional of application Ser. No. 09/292,398 filed on Apr. 15, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,608,843, and for which priority is claimed under 35 U.S.C. § 120; and this application claims priority of application Ser. No. 10-105990 filed in Japan on Apr. 16, 1998 under 35 U.S.C. § 119; the entire contents of all are hereby incorporated by reference.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The invention relates to a digital communications system and more specifically to modulation methods facilitating fading distortion compensation that performs a quasi-synchronous detection using a pilot signal.
- 2. Description of the Prior Art
- In a digital communications system, especially in a digital mobile radio system, the envelope of information signals or symbols is distorted (i.e., the phases and the amplitudes of information signals involves phase errors and amplitude errors) due to fading. The phase error of the received signal causes an error in the frequency of a local oscillator in the receiver. The error of the local oscillation frequency with respect to the carrier frequency is hereinafter referred to as a “frequency offset”. The phase error (or frequency offset) and the amplitude error of the received signal have to be estimated and compensated for in the receiver.
- A fading distortion compensation scheme using a pilot signal is described by S. Sampei, “Rayleigh Fading Compensation Method for 16-QAM MODEM in Digital Land Mobile Radio Systems,” Trans. IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Japan, Vol. J72-B-II, No. 1, January 1989, pp. 7-15 (which is hereby incorporated by reference).
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a signal constellation used in this 16-QAM system. InFIG. 1 , small black-filled circles indicate 16 signal points in an in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) plane. One of the signal points with the maximum amplitude, that is, any of the signal points A, B, C and D is assigned to a pilot signal. (Since one of the 16 signal points in the signal constellation is used for a pilot signal, the remaining 15 points are available for the information signals.) A pilot signal is inserted in every frame or every N−1 information symbols (assuming that N symbols constitute one frame) in a transmitter. The estimation and compensation of distortions (due to fading) of information signals or symbols are achieved by interpolation using the pilot signals. - In such quasi-synchronous detection as just described, larger-amplitude pilot symbols yields a higher precision in estimation of the frequency offset and the amplitude error of the information signals, which results in an improvement of the bit error rate, which is a function of the ratio of the carrier signal power to the noise power density per one symbol. However, enlarging the amplitude of the pilot signals without taking any measure lowers the power efficiency of the power amplifier of the transmitter system due to an increase in the ratio of the peak to the average transmission power.
- It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a method of and a system for compensating for fading distortion of the received signal with a raised precision and thereby to provide a digital communication system that permits a reception of a reduced bit error rate.
- In accordance with the principles of the invention, a point that differs in phase from any of the signal points for possible information symbols and that is larger in amplitude than any of the signal points is selected for a pilot signal point in a signal constellation (or a signal point map plotted on a in-phase and quadrature-phase plane). A pilot signal is inserted in every frame or every predetermined number of information signals.
- In a receiver, the fading distortion of each of the pilot signals regularly inserted in the received signals is determined. The fading distortions of the information signals are estimated by interpolation using the determined fading distortion of the pilot signal, and then compensated for.
- In a preferred embodiment, the amplitude of the pilot signal is set not larger than 1.6 times a maximum possible amplitude of the information signals.
- The frequency band of each information signal is preferably limited with a roll-off filter with a roll-off coefficient ranging from 0.1 to 0.4.
- The features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description of an exemplary embodiment of the invention and the accompanying drawing, in which:
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FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a signal constellation used in this 16-QAM system; -
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing a part of an illustrative embodiment of a mobile telephone terminal that incorporates a fading distortion compensation system in accordance with the principles of the invention; -
FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary signal constellation for 16-APSK (amplitude phase shift keying) used in a first example; -
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a symbol stream transmitted in a digital communication system that serves themobile telephone terminal 1 ofFIG. 1 ; and -
FIGS. 5 through 8 are signal constellations for m-QAM, 16-QAM, 8-PSK and QPSK according to the principles of the invention. - Throughout the drawing, the same elements when shown in more than one figure are designated by the same reference numerals.
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FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing a part of an illustrative embodiment of amobile telephone terminal 1 that incorporates a fading distortion compensation system in accordance with the principles of the invention. A transmission system (shown in upper part ofFIG. 2 ) of themobile telephone terminal 1 includes a serial-to-parallel (S/P)converter 10; a baseband signal generator 20 having its input connected with aconverter 10 output; a pilot (or frame)signal inserter 110 having its in-phase (I) input and quadrature-phase (Q) input connected with respective outputs of the baseband signal generator 20; low pass filters (LPF) 30 having their inputs connected with pilot signal inserter 110 outputs; aradio transmitter portion 40 having its I and Q inputs connected with I andQ LPF 30 outputs, respectively; anantenna duplexer 50 having transmission input connected with thetransmitter portion 40 output; and anantenna 60 used for both transmission and reception. A reception system (shown in lower part ofFIG. 2 ) of themobile telephone terminal 1 includes aradio receiver portion 70 having its input connected with aduplexer 50 reception output;LPFs 80 having their input connected with radio receiver portion 70 I and Q outputs; afading distortion compensator 100 having its I and Q inputs connected withrespective LPF 80 outputs; and adecision maker 90, having its input connected with acompensator 100 output, for providing received data. Thefading distortion compensator 100 includes aphase error estimator 120, anamplitude error estimator 130 and a phase andamplitude compensator 140. Themobile telephone terminal 1 further includes acontroller 170 for controlling overall operation of theterminal 1. - In transmission operation, binary data is supplied in the form of a bitstream to the S/
P converter 10. The S/P converter 10 converts the serial binary data into a parallel data of a predetermined number of bits. The baseband signal generator 20 generates an in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components or signals for a symbol associated with the parallel data. -
FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary signal constellation for 16-APSK (amplitude phase shift keying) used in a first example.FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation of thepilot signal inserter 110 ofFIG. 3 . InFIGS. 3 and 4 and the following figures of signal communications, small black-filled circles indicate information symbols and small white-filled circles indicate pilot (or frame) symbols. - In this specific example, the base
band signal generator 20 generates I and Q components of one (ISi) of the 16 possible information symbols IS1, IS2, . . . , ISP which is associated with each of the parallel data supplied to thegenerator 20, where i=1, 2, . . . P, and P is the number of possible information symbols (16 in this specific example) in the modulation scheme. The information symbol stream supplied from the baseband signal generator 20 is shown in the upper part ofFIG. 4 . - The pilot signal inserter 110 inserts a pilot signal PS in every predetermined number of information symbols, say, N−1 symbols S1, . . . SN−1 to make a frame of N symbols S0, S1, . . . SN−1 as shown in
FIG. 4 . In each frame of the symbol stream output from the pilot signal inserter 110, -
- It is seen from
FIG. 3 that the pilot signal PS (=S0) is preferably disposed so as to make an angle of π/8 with adjacent information signal points. Thus, the pilot signal PS=(PSI, PSQ) is preferably set to any of the following points: -
- where i=1, 2, . . . , 16 and R is the amplitude of the pilot signal PS.
- According to the invention, the amplitude R of the pilot signal PS is set larger than that of any information signal Sj (=ISi), Ri, as shown in
FIG. 3 . Specifically, it is preferable to set the pilot signal amplitude R for a range larger than the maximum amplitude Rmax of the information symbols and not larger than 1.6 times the maximum amplitude Rmax, that is, -
Rmax<R≦1.6*Rmax. (2) - It is noted that each signal Sj is processed in the form of corresponding I and Q components SjI and SjQ. The signals Sj from the
pilot signal inserter 110 is limited in frequency band by theLPFs 30. TheLPFs 30 are preferably roll-off filters (or Nyquist filters) having the following characteristic: -
- where H(ω) is a amplitude characteristic of the roll-off
filters 30, ω is an angular frequency, ω0 is a Nyquist angular frequency and α is a roll-off coefficient. It is preferable to set the roll-off coefficient α for a range from 0.1 to 0.4. - The filtered signals are modulated and amplified by the
radio transmitter portion 40, and eventually transmitted via theduplexer 50 and theantenna 60. - In reception operation, the I and Q components of the received signals received by the
antenna 50, theduplexer 60 and theradio receiver portion 70 is filtered by the LPFs 80 and supplied to thephase error estimator 120, theamplitude error estimator 130 and the phase andamplitude compensator 140. Thephase error estimator 120 provides an estimated phase error signal to thecompensator 140. Theamplitude error estimator 130 provides, to thecompensator 140, an estimated amplitude error signal for each information signal Sj (j=1, 2, . . . N−1) through interpolation using a pilot signal S0. The phase andamplitude compensator 140 responsively compensates each information signal by using the estimated phase and amplitude error signals to provide compensated I and Q components. Thedecision maker 90 provides data associated with the compensated I and Q components. - In this way, the invention enables the bit error rate to be reduced without influencing on the ratio of peak to average power at the amplifier (AMP) 44 in the
radio transmission portion 40 because the precision in estimation of frequency and amplitude errors of the information signals is enhanced. - Modification
- Though the embodiment has been described in conjunction with the 16-APSK the invention is applicable to any more-than-7-signal-point modulation scheme. Examples are presented for 2m-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) (m≧3), 16-QAM, 8-PSK (phase shift keying) and QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) in the following.
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FIGS. 5 through 8 are signal constellations for 2m-QAM (m≧3), 16-QAM, 8-PSK and QPSK according to the principles of the invention. - As for 2m-QAM as shown in
FIG. 5 , if the information signal points ISi (i=1, 2, . . . , 2m) are written as (ISiI, ISiQ) in I-Q coordinates, the points are expressed as follows: -
ISi I =s(2m-1 a 1+2m-2 a 2+ . . . +20 a m) -
ISi Q =s(2m-1 b 1+2m-2 b 2+ . . . +20 b m) (4) - where s is a constant and each of ak and bk (k=1, 2, . . . m) represents 1 and −1,i.e., (ak, bk) represents four points (1, 1), (1, −1), (−1, 1) and (−1, −1). In this case, the pilot signal PS is disposed on either of the I and Q axes such that the amplitude (R) of PS is larger than that (Ri) of any possible symbol points. In the specific example of
FIG. 5 , the pilot signal is disposed on the positive range of the I axis. - In case of 16-QAM, the possible symbol points are expressed as follows:
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ISi I =s(21 a 1+20 a 2) -
ISi Q =s(21 b 1+20 b 2). (5) - In this case, the pilot signal PS is preferably disposed on either of the I and Q axes such that the amplitude (R) of PS is larger than that (Ri) of any possible symbol points ISi as shown in
FIG. 6 - In case of 8-PSK as shown in
FIG. 7 , the possible signal points are expressed as: -
ISi I =r*cos(iπ/4) -
ISi Q =r*sin(iπ/4). (6) - In this case, since the pilot signal PS is preferably disposed so as to make an angle of π/8 with adjacent information points, the pilot signal PS=(PSI, PSQ) is preferably set to any of the following points:
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- where k=1, 2, . . . , 8 and R is the amplitude of the pilot symbol that satisfy:
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r<R≦1.6*r. - In case of QPSK as shown in
FIG. 8 , the possible signal points are expressed as: -
- In this case, since the pilot signal PS is preferably disposed so as to make an angle of π/4 with adjacent information points, the pilot signal PS=(PSI, PSQ) is preferably set to any of the following points:
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- Many widely different embodiments of the present invention may be constructed without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. It should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described in the specification, except as defined in the appended claims.
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1. A method comprising the steps of:
modulating digital data, by using a QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) scheme or 2m-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) scheme (m is an integer equal to or higher than 3) in which both absolute values of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components of an information symbol with a maximum amplitude take the same value in an I-Q plane, to generate an orthogonal base band signal including one or more information symbols, each information symbol consisting of I-Q components;
regularly inserting a pilot symbol into the orthogonal base band signal, the pilot symbol being disposed in the I-Q plane so as to equalize a distance in the I-Q plane between the pilot symbol and every one of two neighboring information symbols with the maximum amplitude, the amplitude of the pilot symbol being larger than the maximum amplitude of the information symbol, the absolute value of the amplitude of the pilot symbol taking a fixed value; and
transmitting the base band signal including the pilot symbol and the information symbols by wireless.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a phase difference between the pilot symbol and the information symbol with the maximum amplitude is π/4.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the pilot symbol is disposed on either the in-phase axis or the quadrature-phase axis.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an amplitude of the pilot symbol is not 1.6 times larger than the maximum amplitude of the information symbol.
5. A wireless transmitting system, comprising:
a base band signal generator that modulates digital data, by using a QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) scheme or 2m-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) scheme (m is an integer equal to or higher than 3) in which both absolute values of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components of an information symbol with a maximum amplitude take the same value in an I-Q plane, to generate an orthogonal base band signal including one or more information symbols, each information symbol consisting of I-Q components;
a pilot signal inserter that regularly inserts a pilot symbol into the orthogonal base band signal, the pilot symbol being disposed in the I-Q plane so as to equalize a distance in the I-Q plane between the pilot symbol and every one of two neighboring information symbols with the maximum amplitude, the amplitude of the pilot symbol being larger than the maximum amplitude of the information symbol, the absolute value of the amplitude of the pilot symbol taking a fixed value; and
a wireless transmitter that transmits the base band signal including the pilot symbol and the information symbols by wireless.
6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein a phase difference between the pilot symbol and the information symbol with the maximum amplitude is π/4.
7. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the pilot system is disposed on either the in-phase axis or the quadrature-phase axis.
8. The system according to claim 5 , wherein an amplitude of the pilot symbol is not 1.6 times larger than the maximum amplitude of the information symbol.
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