What is the use of RRC filter?
Using 90% power Bandwidth (BW) measurement definition showed that the RRC filtering might improve spectrum efficiency by more than 75%. Furthermore using the matching RRC filters both in the transmitter and receiver provides the improved Bit Error Rate (BER) performance.
Why use raised cosine filter?
A typical use of raised cosine filtering is to split the filtering between transmitter and receiver. Both transmitter and receiver employ square-root raised cosine filters. The combination of transmitter and receiver filters is a raised cosine filter, which results in minimum ISI.