Applications of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have advanced rapidly in recent years. The UAVs are used for a variety of applications, including surveillance, disaster management, precision agriculture, weather forecasting, etc. In near future, the growing number of UAV applications would necessitate densification of UAV infrastructure (ground radio station (GRS) and ground control station (GCS)) at the expense of increased energy consumption for UAV communications. Maximizing the energy efficiency of this UAV infrastructure is important. Motivated by this, we propose joint resource allocation and UAV scheduling with GRS sleeping. Further, we propose the use of coordinated multipoint (CoMP) with joint transmission (JT) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) along with GRS sleeping to increase the coverage and data rates, respectively. We then present exhaustive simulation results showcasing the trade-off between throughput and energy efficiency with varying UAV densities. We also compare the coverage, throughput, and energy efficiency for NOMA, CoMP with JT and the benchmark scenario.INDEX TERMS Coordinated multi-point (CoMP), ground control station (GCS), ground radio station sleeping (GRSS), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).