Protocol stack software is a set of hierarchical network protocols that manage the flow of data in communication systems. Each protocol in the stack or suite supports the protocol above it and uses ...

A software stack is a collection of independent components that work together to support the execution of an application. The components are stacked one on top of each other in a hierarchy that can ...

(1) For the network stack, see protocol stack. (2) A collection of programs that work together, often in a prescribed sequence, to support some system controlled by computers. (3) A set of programs ...