Wireless relay measurement reporting in a wireless communication network

A wireless relay to serve wireless User Equipment (UEs), the wireless relay comprising:

• a relay user transceiver configured to exchange user signaling and user data with the UEs and exchange access signaling and the user data with a relay network transceiver;
• the relay network transceiver configured to determine wideband radio measurements within a wideband and wirelessly exchange the user data and relay signaling with a wireless data network over sub-bands in the wideband wherein the relay signaling includes the access signaling and the wideband radio measurements, and wherein the wideband is 20 megahertz or greater and the sub-bands are one megahertz or smaller;
• the relay network transceiver configured to determine when wireless communication quality for the UEs falls below a quality threshold wherein the quality threshold comprises an amount of wireless session drops for the UEs;
• the relay network transceiver configured to receive an instruction to determine the sub-band radio measurements instead of the wideband radio measurements wherein the relay network transceiver is configured to receive Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling having the instruction from the wireless data network;
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• the relay network transceiver configured to responsively determine sub-band radio measurements for the sub-bands within the wideband and wirelessly exchange additional relay signaling with the wireless data network over the sub-bands wherein the additional relay signaling has the sub-band radio measurements.