Method and system for optimizing power consumption and reducing MIPS requirements for wireless communication

A system for reducing system latency, MIPS requirements, and power consumption in a wireless communications system includes part of an upper layer stack processing being performed on a controller to relieve a host processor of some data intensive operations. After the initial connection establishment phase in which the controller may retrieve certain information required for data transmission and stores the same locally, the data source may provide data to the controller, such as, without routing the data through the host. The host may be relieved of the data processing that needs to be done while the data is being transferred.