Benchmarking third-party-transfer protocols with the FTS

The aim of this project is to benchmark third-party-transfer protocols by using the FTS, through a software toolkit built in python. The protocols that are benchmarked are GridFTP, HTTP and XRootD and the testbed consists of three endpoints in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. GridFTP is the most commonly used protocol at CERN for data transfer, the community though is contemplating a transition from it to another protocol (prompted largely by the withdrawal of support for GridFTP), HTTP and XRootD are the candidate protocols to replace it. This study essentially makes a comparison between them in terms of performance for latency (per single file), for different file sizes.