Application layer control plane

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving an input to an application operating on the processing system;
• generating data traffic responsive to the input;
• communicating the data traffic on an application layer of the processing system;
• determining if the data traffic is delay-sensitive data traffic;
• assigning the data traffic on a control plane of the application layer, wherein the assigning the data traffic on the control plane is responsive to the determining the data traffic is delay-sensitive data traffic;
• and
• communicating the data traffic on the control plane to a radio circuit for communication by the radio circuit over a wireless connection to a remote device, the radio circuit communicating the data traffic substantially immediately in response to the assigning the data traffic on the control plane of the application layer, to reduce latency of wireless communications between the radio circuit and the remote device.

A method, comprising:

• detecting, by a processing system including a processor, data traffic on an application layer of a communication device, the data traffic including delay-sensitive messages and non-delay sensitive messages;
• routing, by the processing system, the delay-sensitive messages to a control plane of the application layer;
• routing, by the processing system, the non-delay sensitive messages to a user plane of the application layer;
• and
• communicating, by the processing system, the delay-sensitive messages on the control plane substantially immediately to reduce latency of wireless communications between the communication device and a remote device.