A base station includes a multicast group administration unit administering a multicast group to which a mobile station belongs, a timing determination unit determining an inter-frequency measurement timing when the mobile station measures a signal having a frequency different from a frequency for a residing cell of the mobile station, and a transmission unit transmitting data. The grid computing system includes one or more printer nodes representing distributed print resources, an information repository, and a grid distributed resource manager. A method for making armor is disclosed that has the steps of providing one or more fiber and thermoplastic layers, gelling the layers, degassing the layers, applying isostatic pressure to the layers, and solidifying the consolidated layer under isostatic pressure to provide a rigid backed support layer. One possibility for the central ferromagnetic layer is NiFe but this is not mandatory.