Abstract:The stability of large complex projects is the key factor to project success, and it is affected both by the stakeholders’ network disturbances and the risk defensive strategies, and therefore, one can improve the project stability from the aspects of project’s network structure optimization and network disturbance control. Due to the fact that the project stability is highly related to the traffic load, edge costs and constraints of the large complex project networks, and can also be characterized by the network traffic load losses, we investigated the interactions of the network transfer coefficients, edge costs and constraints to the random and the serious network disturbances, and obtained the key network parameters to maintain the optimal and worst project stabilities. While when studying the relationships between network risk defensive strategies and disturbances, our simulation results showed that risk defensive strategies can isolate the disturbances effectively, yet the influences of the defensive values to disturbance isolation is not obvious. This study provides theoretical supports to the idea of improving network stability by using network structure optimization and network disturbance control.