Distributed Processing of Probabilistic Top-k Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks introduces the concepts of sufficient and necessary sets to facilitate localized data pruning in sensor network clusters. It develops three algorithms - sufficient set-based, necessary set-based, and boundary-based - for intercluster query processing with bounded communication rounds. An adaptive algorithm is also introduced to minimize transmission costs under dynamic data distributions. Experimental results show the proposed algorithms significantly reduce data transmission with only small constant communication rounds.