Systems and methods relating to a remote wireless device for a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, the remote wireless device is a wireless device that desires to establish a relay connection with a relay wireless device that has relay functionality. The remote wireless device includes a transceiver, a processor, and memory storing instructions executable by the processor whereby the relay wireless device is operable to rank a plurality of candidate relay wireless devices and to report a subset of the plurality of candidate relay wireless devices based on the ranking of the plurality of candidate relay wireless devices to a network node of the cellular communications network via the transceiver.