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To encourage data offloading in heterogeneous networks, range expansion techniques have been introduced in LTE-Advanced system. By adding a positive bias in cell selection process, more users can select picocells as their serving cells even the picocell is not of the strongest signal. Also, to protect offloaded users from severe macrocell interference, a specific subframe called almost blank subframe (ABS) is introduced. Since macrocell is kept silent during ABSs, the offloaded users can be allocated without strong macrocell interference within ABSs. It is noted that the offloaded user's average data rate highly depends on the amount of ABSs rather than the bias value because the scheduling opportunities of offloaded users are limited within ABSs. And from the user's point of view, the cell which is expected to give high data rate should be selected as a serving cell. In this paper, we propose a cell selection …