receiving, at the first UE from a network entity via a downlink communication link, a control message that indicates a measurement threshold for evaluating a sounding reference signal transmitted by a second UE via a sidelink channel between the first UE and the second UE and indicates sounding reference signal resources of the sidelink channel corresponding to the measurement threshold;

generating a reference signal measurement of the sounding reference signal transmitted by the second UE via the sounding reference signal resources of the sidelink channel indicated via the control message; and

transmitting a measurement report to the network entity, via an uplink communication link, based at least in part on the reference signal measurement of the sounding reference signal transmitted by the second UE on the sidelink channel satisfying the measurement threshold,

wherein the measurement threshold is a function of a transmission power used by the second UE to transmit the sounding reference signal via the sidelink channel and a received power of a downlink data transmission from the network entity to the second UE.