diff --git a/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/op_handler/node_handler.py b/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/op_handler/node_handler.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8deafeb55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/op_handler/node_handler.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from torch.fx.node import Node
+from colossalai.device.device_mesh import DeviceMesh
+from typing import Dict, List
+from ..sharding_strategy import StrategiesVector, Operand, StrategyGenerator_V2
+
+
+class NodeHandler(ABC):
+    '''
+    The NodeHandler is an abstract class used to generate every possible strategies for an operator node.
+
+    Args:
+        node (Node): the input node in node argument list.
+        device_mesh (DeviceMesh): A logical view of a physical mesh.
+        strategies_vector (StrategiesVector): all the strategies generated in this handler will be recorded into the strategies_vector.
+    '''
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        node: Node,
+        device_mesh: DeviceMesh,
+        strategies_vector: StrategiesVector,
+    ) -> None:
+        self.node = node
+        self.predecessor_node = list(node._input_nodes.keys())
+        self.successor_node = list(node.users.keys())
+        self.device_mesh = device_mesh
+        self.strategies_vector = strategies_vector
+        self.strategy_generator = self.register_strategy_generator()
+
+    def register_strategy(self) -> StrategiesVector:
+        """
+        Register different sharding strategies for the current node.
+        """
+        operand_mapping = self.get_operand_mapping()
+        for generator in self.strategy_generator:
+            strategies = generator.generate(operand_mapping)
+            self.strategies_vector.extend(strategies)
+        return self.strategies_vector
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def register_strategy_generator(self) -> List[StrategyGenerator_V2]:
+        """
+        Define which generators should be used by this NodeHandler object.
+        """
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def get_operand_mapping(self) -> Dict[str, Operand]:
+        """
+        Returns the mapping between the logical operand name to its physical operands.
+        A logical operand is defined by the strategy generator, for example, a matrix multiplication 
+        operation has two operands "input" and "other". For a nn.Linear module, the physical operand for "input" is
+        the module input and the physical operand for "other" is the module weight.
+        Note that the operand name is specified by the StrategyGenerator object.
+
+        For example:
+
+            # for a linear layer
+            mapping = {
+                "input": Operand(name=str(self.node.args[0]), type=OperandType.ARG),
+                "other": Operand(name="weight", type=OperandType.PARAM),
+                "bias": Operand(name="bias", type=OperandType.PARAM)
+            }
+        """
+        pass
diff --git a/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/op_handler/registry.py b/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/op_handler/registry.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51855e4bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/op_handler/registry.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+class Registry:
+    # TODO: refactor the registry classes used in colossalai.registry, colossalai.fx and here
+
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        self.name = name
+        self.store = {}
+
+    def register(self, source):
+
+        def wrapper(func):
+            self.store[source] = func
+            return func
+
+        return wrapper
+
+    def get(self, source):
+        assert source in self.store
+        target = self.store[source]
+        return target
+
+    def has(self, source):
+        return source in self.store
+
+
+operator_registry = Registry('operator')
diff --git a/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/sharding_strategy.py b/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/sharding_strategy.py
index 598d59fb4..342f6ff37 100644
--- a/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/sharding_strategy.py
+++ b/colossalai/auto_parallel/solver/sharding_strategy.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from enum import Enum
+from colossalai.device.device_mesh import DeviceMesh
 from colossalai.tensor.sharding_spec import ShardingSpec
 from typing import Dict, List, Union, Tuple, Any
 from torch.fx.node import Node
@@ -37,6 +40,20 @@ class ShardingStrategy:
     input_shardings: List[ShardingSpec] = None
 
 
+class OperandType(Enum):
+    """
+    An operand can come from the argument list of an operator or the parameter list of a module.
+    """
+    ARG = 0
+    PARAM = 1
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Operand:
+    name: str
+    type: OperandType
+
+
 @dataclass
 class TrainCycleItem:
     """
@@ -44,9 +61,8 @@ class TrainCycleItem:
     in a training iteration.
 
     Args:
-        fwd (Any): the item for the forward pass
-        bwd (Any): the item for the backward pass
-        total (Any): the total value for the forward and backward pass
+        fwd (float): the item for the forward pass
+        bwd (float): the item for the backward pass
     """
     fwd: Any
     bwd: Any
@@ -74,8 +90,33 @@ class ShardingStrategy_V2:
     compute_cost: TrainCycleItem = None
     communication_cost: TrainCycleItem = None
     memory_cost: TrainCycleItem = None
-    input_sharding_specs: List[ShardingSpec] = None
-    input_resharding_costs: Dict[Node, List[float]] = None
+    input_sharding_specs: Dict[Operand, ShardingSpec] = None
+    input_resharding_costs: Dict[Operand, List[float]] = None
+
+
+class StrategyGenerator_V2(ABC):
+    """
+    StrategyGenerator is used to generate the same group of sharding strategies. 
+
+    TODO: remove the original strategy_generator.py after refactoring
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, device_mesh: DeviceMesh):
+        self.device_mesh = device_mesh
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def generate(self, operand_mapping: Dict[str:Operand]) -> List[ShardingStrategy_V2]:
+        """
+        """
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def validate(self, *args, **kwargs) -> bool:
+        """
+        Validate if the operands are of desired shape. 
+        If True, means this generator can be used for the current operation.
+        """
+        pass
 
 
 class StrategiesVector(list):