Breiling, MarcoMarcoBreilingHassan Hussein, Khaled ShawkyKhaled ShawkyHassan Hussein2022-03-082022-03-082019https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/312457A 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.en621006patent3422802