We propose a method to make a highly clustered complex network within the configuration model. Using this method, we generated highly clustered random regular networks and analyzed the properties of them. We show that highly clustered random regular networks with appropriate parameters satisfy all the conditions of the small-world network: connectedness, high clustering coefficient, and small-world effect. We also study how clustering affects the percolation threshold in random regular networks. In addition, the prisoner's dilemma game is studied and the effects of clustering and degree heterogeneity on the cooperation level are discussed.Introduction. -Recently, complex networks have played important roles in various fields [1][2][3][4][5]. There are, especially, a lot of researches on the various types of realworld network structures [1,4,5]. As a result, studies to generate network models that resemble various kinds of real-world networks attract a lot of attention. Many methods were proposed to generate complex networks: rewiring model, growing model, configuration model, etc [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].The Watts-Strogatz (WS) model generates a smallworld network based on the rewiring method [6]. The small-world network has a high clustering coefficient and short average path length, but it has restriction in the degree distribution [6,7].The Barabási-Albert (BA) model generates a scale-free network using the growing model with the preferential attachment [8]. It produces the power-law degree distribution, which is frequently observed in a real-world network such as citation networks, metabolic networks, and the Internet [19][20][21][22][23]. However, the network generated by the BA model has a vanishing clustering coefficient in contrast with real-world networks. To overcome this problem of the BA model, many researchers proposed modified BA models [9][10][11][12] that have a high clustering coefficient maintaining the power-law degree distribution.The configuration model is a method to make a random network for a given arbitrary degree sequence. This (a)