Supporting ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is a
challenge in current wireless systems. Channel codes that generate large
codewords improve reliability but necessitate the use of interleavers, which
introduce undesirable latency. Only short codewords can eliminate the
requirement for interleaving and reduce decoding latency. This paper suggests a
coding and decoding method which, when combined with the high spectral
efficiency of spatial multiplexing, can provide URLLC over a fading channel.
Random linear coding and high-order modulation are used to transmit information
over a massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) channel, followed by
zero-forcing detection and guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) at a
receiver. A variant of GRAND, called symbol-level GRAND, originally proposed
for single-antenna systems that employ high-order modulation schemes, is
generalized to spatial multiplexing. The paper studies the impact of the
orthogonality defect of the underlying mMIMO lattice on symbol-level GRAND, and
proposes to leverage side-information that comes from the mMIMO channel-state
information and relates to the reliability of each receive antenna. This
induces an antenna sorting step, which further reduces decoding complexity by
over 80\% when compared to bit-level GRAND