diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-pypi-router.yml b/.github/workflows/release-pypi-router.yml
index 948b3f584..5653cd1d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-pypi-router.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-pypi-router.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           CIBW_BUILD: "cp38-manylinux_x86_64 cp39-manylinux_x86_64 cp310-manylinux_x86_64 cp311-manylinux_x86_64 cp312-manylinux_x86_64"
           CIBW_BEFORE_ALL: |
-            yum update && yum install -y openssl-devel && curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+            yum update && yum install -y openssl-devel protobuf-compiler && curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
           CIBW_ENVIRONMENT: "PATH=$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
 
       - name: List built packages
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.router b/docker/Dockerfile.router
index 07633e502..ded98bb8a 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.router
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.router
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
 
 # install dependencies
 RUN apt update -y \
-    && apt install -y git build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config \
+    && apt install -y git build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config protobuf-compiler \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
     && apt clean
 
 # install rustup from rustup.rs
 RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y \
-    && rustc --version && cargo --version
+    && rustc --version && cargo --version && protoc --version
 
 # pull the github repository
 RUN cd /opt \
diff --git a/scripts/ci/ci_install_rust.sh b/scripts/ci/ci_install_rust.sh
index 519155dfb..ac042fc9a 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/ci_install_rust.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/ci_install_rust.sh
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ set -euxo pipefail
 # Check if sudo is available
 if command -v sudo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     sudo apt-get update
-    sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev pkg-config
+    sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev pkg-config protobuf-compiler
 else
     apt-get update
-    apt-get install -y libssl-dev pkg-config
+    apt-get install -y libssl-dev pkg-config protobuf-compiler
 fi
 
 # Install rustup (Rust installer and version manager)
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ source $HOME/.cargo/env
 # Verify installation
 rustc --version
 cargo --version
+protoc --version
diff --git a/sgl-router/Cargo.toml b/sgl-router/Cargo.toml
index e0defacdf..1b20f3cba 100644
--- a/sgl-router/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sgl-router/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ version = "0.0.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [features]
-default = ["huggingface"]
+default = ["huggingface", "grpc-client"]
 huggingface = ["tokenizers"]
 tiktoken = ["tiktoken-rs"]
+grpc-client = []
+grpc-server = []
 
 [lib]
 name = "sglang_router_rs"
@@ -52,6 +54,18 @@ anyhow = "1.0"
 tokenizers = { version = "0.21.4", optional = true }
 tiktoken-rs = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 
+# gRPC and Protobuf dependencies
+tonic = { version = "0.12", features = ["tls", "gzip", "transport"] }
+prost = "0.13"
+prost-types = "0.13"
+deadpool = { version = "0.12", features = ["managed", "rt_tokio_1"] }
+backoff = { version = "0.4", features = ["tokio"] }
+strum = { version = "0.26", features = ["derive"] }
+
+[build-dependencies]
+tonic-build = "0.12"
+prost-build = "0.13"
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["html_reports"] }
 tower = { version = "0.5", features = ["util"] }
diff --git a/sgl-router/MANIFEST.in b/sgl-router/MANIFEST.in
index e1d6e7a90..4baa6c84f 100644
--- a/sgl-router/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/sgl-router/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 # Must include:
 include Cargo.toml        # Rust project configuration
+include build.rs          # Build script for protobuf generation
 recursive-include src *.rs  # Rust source files
+recursive-include src/proto *.proto  # Protobuf definitions
diff --git a/sgl-router/build.rs b/sgl-router/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90b3c6101
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sgl-router/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    // Only regenerate if the proto file changes
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/proto/sglang_scheduler.proto");
+
+    // Configure protobuf compilation with custom settings
+    let config = prost_build::Config::new();
+
+    // Skip serde for types that use prost_types::Struct
+    // These cause conflicts and we don't need serde for all generated types
+
+    // Configure tonic-build for gRPC code generation
+    tonic_build::configure()
+        // Generate both client and server code
+        .build_server(true)
+        .build_client(true)
+        // Add a module-level attribute for documentation and clippy warnings
+        .server_mod_attribute(
+            "sglang.grpc.scheduler",
+            "#[allow(unused, clippy::mixed_attributes_style)]",
+        )
+        .client_mod_attribute(
+            "sglang.grpc.scheduler",
+            "#[allow(unused, clippy::mixed_attributes_style)]",
+        )
+        // Compile the proto file with the custom config
+        .compile_protos_with_config(
+            config,
+            &["src/proto/sglang_scheduler.proto"],
+            &["src/proto"],
+        )?;
+
+    println!("cargo:warning=Protobuf compilation completed successfully");
+
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/sgl-router/src/grpc/client.rs b/sgl-router/src/grpc/client.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f31227bb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sgl-router/src/grpc/client.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,318 @@
+use std::time::Duration;
+use tonic::{transport::Channel, Request};
+use tracing::debug;
+
+// Include the generated protobuf code
+pub mod proto {
+    tonic::include_proto!("sglang.grpc.scheduler");
+}
+
+// The generated module structure depends on the package name in the .proto file
+// package sglang.grpc.scheduler; generates a nested module structure
+
+/// gRPC client for SGLang scheduler
+pub struct SglangSchedulerClient {
+    client: proto::sglang_scheduler_client::SglangSchedulerClient<Channel>,
+}
+
+impl SglangSchedulerClient {
+    /// Create a new client and connect to the scheduler
+    pub async fn connect(endpoint: &str) -> Result<Self, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+        debug!("Connecting to SGLang scheduler at {}", endpoint);
+
+        let channel = Channel::from_shared(endpoint.to_string())?
+            .timeout(Duration::from_secs(30))
+            .connect()
+            .await?;
+
+        let client = proto::sglang_scheduler_client::SglangSchedulerClient::new(channel);
+
+        Ok(Self { client })
+    }
+
+    /// Initialize the connection
+    pub async fn initialize(
+        &mut self,
+        client_id: String,
+    ) -> Result<proto::InitializeResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+        let request = Request::new(proto::InitializeRequest {
+            client_id,
+            client_version: "0.1.0".to_string(),
+            mode: proto::initialize_request::Mode::Regular as i32,
+        });
+
+        let response = self.client.initialize(request).await?;
+        Ok(response.into_inner())
+    }
+
+    /// Submit a generation request (returns streaming response)
+    pub async fn generate_stream(
+        &mut self,
+        req: proto::GenerateRequest,
+    ) -> Result<tonic::Streaming<proto::GenerateResponse>, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+        let request = Request::new(req);
+        let response = self.client.generate(request).await?;
+        Ok(response.into_inner())
+    }
+
+    /// Perform health check
+    pub async fn health_check(
+        &mut self,
+    ) -> Result<proto::HealthCheckResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+        let request = Request::new(proto::HealthCheckRequest {
+            include_detailed_metrics: false,
+        });
+
+        let response = self.client.health_check(request).await?;
+        Ok(response.into_inner())
+    }
+
+    /// Abort a request
+    pub async fn abort_request(
+        &mut self,
+        request_id: String,
+        reason: String,
+    ) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+        let request = Request::new(proto::AbortRequest { request_id, reason });
+
+        self.client.abort(request).await?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Flush cache
+    pub async fn flush_cache(
+        &mut self,
+        flush_all: bool,
+        session_ids: &[String],
+    ) -> Result<proto::FlushCacheResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+        let request = Request::new(proto::FlushCacheRequest {
+            flush_all,
+            session_ids: session_ids.to_vec(),
+        });
+
+        let response = self.client.flush_cache(request).await?;
+        Ok(response.into_inner())
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_proto_types_compilation() {
+        // Test that protobuf types can be constructed
+        let init_req = proto::InitializeRequest {
+            client_id: "test-client".to_string(),
+            client_version: "0.1.0".to_string(),
+            mode: 0,
+        };
+        assert_eq!(init_req.client_id, "test-client");
+        assert_eq!(init_req.client_version, "0.1.0");
+        assert_eq!(init_req.mode, 0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_generate_request_construction() {
+        let sampling_params = proto::SamplingParams {
+            temperature: 0.7,
+            max_new_tokens: 128,
+            top_p: 0.9,
+            top_k: 50,
+            stop: vec!["</s>".to_string()],
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        let gen_req = proto::GenerateRequest {
+            request_id: "test-req-123".to_string(),
+            input: Some(proto::generate_request::Input::Text(
+                "Hello world".to_string(),
+            )),
+            sampling_params: Some(sampling_params),
+            return_logprob: true,
+            logprob_start_len: 0,
+            top_logprobs_num: 5,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(gen_req.request_id, "test-req-123");
+        if let Some(proto::generate_request::Input::Text(text)) = &gen_req.input {
+            assert_eq!(text, "Hello world");
+        }
+        assert!(gen_req.return_logprob);
+        assert_eq!(gen_req.top_logprobs_num, 5);
+
+        let params = gen_req.sampling_params.unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(params.temperature, 0.7);
+        assert_eq!(params.max_new_tokens, 128);
+        assert_eq!(params.stop, vec!["</s>"]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_health_check_request() {
+        let health_req = proto::HealthCheckRequest {
+            include_detailed_metrics: true,
+        };
+        assert!(health_req.include_detailed_metrics);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_abort_request_construction() {
+        let abort_req = proto::AbortRequest {
+            request_id: "req-456".to_string(),
+            reason: "User canceled".to_string(),
+        };
+        assert_eq!(abort_req.request_id, "req-456");
+        assert_eq!(abort_req.reason, "User canceled");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_flush_cache_request() {
+        let flush_req = proto::FlushCacheRequest {
+            flush_all: true,
+            session_ids: vec!["session1".to_string(), "session2".to_string()],
+        };
+        assert!(flush_req.flush_all);
+        assert_eq!(flush_req.session_ids.len(), 2);
+        assert_eq!(flush_req.session_ids[0], "session1");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_sampling_params_defaults() {
+        let params = proto::SamplingParams::default();
+        assert_eq!(params.temperature, 0.0);
+        assert_eq!(params.max_new_tokens, 0);
+        assert_eq!(params.top_p, 0.0);
+        assert_eq!(params.top_k, 0);
+        assert!(params.stop.is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_multimodal_inputs() {
+        let mm_inputs = proto::MultimodalInputs {
+            image_urls: vec!["http://example.com/image.jpg".to_string()],
+            video_urls: vec![],
+            audio_urls: vec![],
+            image_data: vec![],
+            video_data: vec![],
+            audio_data: vec![],
+            modalities: vec!["image".to_string()],
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(mm_inputs.image_urls.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(mm_inputs.image_urls[0], "http://example.com/image.jpg");
+        assert_eq!(mm_inputs.modalities[0], "image");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_session_params() {
+        let session_params = proto::SessionParams {
+            session_id: "sess-789".to_string(),
+            request_id: "req-101".to_string(),
+            offset: 100,
+            replace: true,
+            drop_previous_output: false,
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(session_params.session_id, "sess-789");
+        assert_eq!(session_params.request_id, "req-101");
+        assert_eq!(session_params.offset, 100);
+        assert!(session_params.replace);
+        assert!(!session_params.drop_previous_output);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_embed_request() {
+        let embed_req = proto::EmbedRequest {
+            request_id: "embed-req-202".to_string(),
+            input: Some(proto::embed_request::Input::Text(
+                "This is a test sentence for embedding".to_string(),
+            )),
+            log_metrics: true,
+            data_parallel_rank: 0,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(embed_req.request_id, "embed-req-202");
+        if let Some(proto::embed_request::Input::Text(text)) = &embed_req.input {
+            assert_eq!(text, "This is a test sentence for embedding");
+        }
+        assert!(embed_req.log_metrics);
+        assert_eq!(embed_req.data_parallel_rank, 0);
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn test_client_connect_invalid_endpoint() {
+        // Test connecting to an invalid endpoint should return error
+        let result = SglangSchedulerClient::connect("invalid://endpoint").await;
+        assert!(result.is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_tokenized_input() {
+        let tokenized = proto::TokenizedInput {
+            original_text: "Hello world".to_string(),
+            input_ids: vec![1, 15043, 1917, 2],
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(tokenized.original_text, "Hello world");
+        assert_eq!(tokenized.input_ids, vec![1, 15043, 1917, 2]);
+    }
+
+    // Test response type construction
+    #[test]
+    fn test_generate_stream_chunk() {
+        let chunk = proto::GenerateStreamChunk {
+            token_id: 1234,
+            text: " world".to_string(),
+            prompt_tokens: 5,
+            completion_tokens: 2,
+            cached_tokens: 3,
+            generation_time: 0.025,
+            queue_time: 10,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(chunk.token_id, 1234);
+        assert_eq!(chunk.text, " world");
+        assert_eq!(chunk.prompt_tokens, 5);
+        assert_eq!(chunk.completion_tokens, 2);
+        assert_eq!(chunk.cached_tokens, 3);
+        assert_eq!(chunk.generation_time, 0.025);
+        assert_eq!(chunk.queue_time, 10);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_model_info() {
+        let model_info = proto::ModelInfo {
+            model_name: "Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct".to_string(),
+            max_context_length: 8192,
+            vocab_size: 128256,
+            supports_tool_calling: true,
+            supports_vision: false,
+            special_tokens: vec![
+                "<|begin_of_text|>".to_string(),
+                "<|end_of_text|>".to_string(),
+            ],
+            model_type: "llama".to_string(),
+            num_layers: 32,
+            hidden_size: 4096,
+            num_attention_heads: 32,
+            num_key_value_heads: 8,
+            tokenizer_type: "llama".to_string(),
+            eos_token_ids: vec![128001, 128009],
+            pad_token_id: 128001,
+            bos_token_id: 128000,
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(model_info.model_name, "Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct");
+        assert_eq!(model_info.max_context_length, 8192);
+        assert_eq!(model_info.vocab_size, 128256);
+        assert!(model_info.supports_tool_calling);
+        assert!(!model_info.supports_vision);
+        assert_eq!(model_info.special_tokens.len(), 2);
+        assert_eq!(model_info.num_layers, 32);
+        assert_eq!(model_info.eos_token_ids, vec![128001, 128009]);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sgl-router/src/grpc/mod.rs b/sgl-router/src/grpc/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..331a6a538
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sgl-router/src/grpc/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+//! gRPC client module for communicating with SGLang scheduler
+//!
+//! This module provides a gRPC client implementation for the SGLang router.
+
+pub mod client;
+
+// Re-export the client
+pub use client::{proto, SglangSchedulerClient};
diff --git a/sgl-router/src/lib.rs b/sgl-router/src/lib.rs
index ec29a1740..e41942c14 100644
--- a/sgl-router/src/lib.rs
+++ b/sgl-router/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ pub mod config;
 pub mod logging;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 pub mod core;
+#[cfg(feature = "grpc-client")]
+pub mod grpc;
 pub mod metrics;
 pub mod middleware;
 pub mod policies;
diff --git a/sgl-router/src/proto/sglang_scheduler.proto b/sgl-router/src/proto/sglang_scheduler.proto
index be8bb09eb..1ea2855a4 100644
--- a/sgl-router/src/proto/sglang_scheduler.proto
+++ b/sgl-router/src/proto/sglang_scheduler.proto
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import "google/protobuf/struct.proto";
 
 // Service definition for SGLang scheduler communication
 // This protocol bridges the Rust router and Python scheduler
-service SGLangScheduler {
+service SglangScheduler {
   // Initialize connection and get model info
   rpc Initialize(InitializeRequest) returns (InitializeResponse);
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ service SGLangScheduler {
   rpc HealthCheck(HealthCheckRequest) returns (HealthCheckResponse);
 
   // Abort a running request
-  rpc AbortRequest(AbortRequest) returns (AbortResponse);
+  rpc Abort(AbortRequest) returns (AbortResponse);
 
   // Flush KV cache
   rpc FlushCache(FlushCacheRequest) returns (FlushCacheResponse);