| Generic Element | HLA Equivalent | DDS Equivalent |
| Pub-Sub Application | Federation | Domain |
| Participant | Federate | Domain Participant |
| Data Exchange Model Element | Object Class, Interaction Class, Basic Datatype, Simple Datatype, Fixed Record, Enumeration, Variant Datatype, | Topic, Topic Type, Struct, Sequence, Typedef, etc. |
| Participant Instance | Federate Instance | Domain Participant Instance |
| Publication | Publication | Publication |
| Pub-Sub Relation | Pub-Sub Relation | Pub-Sub Relation |
| PubSubTypeEnum | PubSubTypeEnum | PubSubTypeEnum |
| Member | Member | Member |
| Node | Node | Node |
| Processor | Processor | Processor |
| Network | Network | Network |
| Network Connection | Network Connection | Network Connection |