Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may communicate extended reality (XR) traffic with a network node via an access link. The UE may switch from communicating the XR traffic via the access link to communicating the XR traffic via a relay UE using a device-to-device communication link responsive to satisfaction of a condition relating to a power usage of the UE or relating to throughput or congestion of the access link or the device-to-device communication link. Numerous other aspects are described.