Aspects relate to mechanisms for wireless communication devices for tone reservation. A user equipment (UE) receives an indication of one or more peak-reduction tone (PRT) resources for a transmission of one or more signals for a base station. The UE transmits a first signal to the base station on an uplink. The UE transmits a second signal to a relay entity on a sidelink for reception by the base station. The second signal is transmitted on the sidelink utilizing the one or more PRT resources.