Relays and methods for operating the same for spontaneously transmission for reliable communications

A relay is configured to operate in a wireless communications network. The relay is configured to receive a message to be spontaneously forwarded to a receiving node. The relay is configured to evaluate a channel quality to the receiving node and to discard the message from forwarding when the channel quality is below a threshold value and/or is configured to evaluate a reception quality of the received message and to discard the message from forwarding when the reception quality is below a threshold value.