1. A system for application task scheduling at a communication device, comprising: a processor; a polling task configured for execution by the processor, wherein the polling task executes during a first CPU time window and sleeps during a second CPU time window; a work task configured for an execution during the second CPU time window; and a scheduler assistant (SA) task having an execution state to indicate to the polling task a status of the execution of the work task, the SA task configured to run if the work task runs to completion within the second CPU time window.